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Charlotte Brontë and I have a lot in com-mon – we each had a mother, she wasborn in April and I was born in Septem-ber (both of which months come afterMarch), and the greatest commonality ofall, we both write.

Well, actually, I write; she's past her primenow, ever since that Jane Eyre thing. An-other thing: each of us published a mag-azine before we were actually recognizedas authors.

In fact, Charlotte's magazine came up forauction recently. It was her second pub-lication under the title Young Men's Mag-azine. Like me, she self-published and,like me, she had self-published severalmagazines before the one that sold atSotheby's, in London, England, on De-cember 15th last, for $1.1 million. Amer-ican.

Another coincidence: when Charlotte pub-lished Issue No. 2 of Young Men's Maga-zine, she was 14 years old. When Ipublished Brew No. 1 of The SquatchberryJournal, I was 34 years old. The exactsame maturity level.

However, there are some differences be-tween us, besides the obvious: I am male,she is female; I am Canadian, she's British. . . And, my magazine was bigger, ENOR-MOUS, compared to Charlotte's. YoungMen's Magazine measures 35 by 61 mm,closed, which is, to you metrically chal-lenged, 1.4 by 2.4 inches. Mine measures152 by 228 mm, which is 6 by 9 inches,chapbook size. Enormous, as I said. Hershas 20 pages; mine has 36. Hers has some4,000 words (in 19 pages, page 20 beingblank); mine has about 9,200, includingphotos and illustrations.

Which works out for her to 210 words perpage to my 255 words per page. Now,your question is, how did I manage topack 255 words into such a small page (6by 9)? Easy. I typed. Charlotte, on theother hand, wrote by hand. So she man-aged to squeeze in only 210 words per 1.4by 2.4-inch page . . .

Originally posted 4 January 2012Read all three chapters on E.J. Lavoie'sBlog > http://bit.ly/2f24jtl

POST #75CHARLOTTE AND I – PRECOCIOUS AUTHORS (Chapter 1)

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