[INTRODUCTION — NARRATION]

Growing up with dyslexia, she had a hard time learning and understanding things during her childhood.
According to her, regular schooling was her daily nightmare and reading clinic became the comfort of
her learning. The disability does not hinder Miss Alanna Michelle's pursuit of her literary career but
instead, it became the stepping stone for her love towards books. Currently, she is an author of two
published books namely, The Little Hero and Tides of the Sea. She completed Bachelor of Arts Major in
English at Ateneo de Zamboanga University - Class of 2015.

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[AUTHOR]

At first, she wanted to pursue law but instead found a better way to use her skills in writing. She was
very interested in literature, literary criticism and everything, that has sparked her desire to write. Her
love for writing begins with reading. "Realizing that I want to become a writer or an author came after
college and was a very strong call for me to pursue passion". Writing for children or enriching children is
something that she finds herself enjoying and what she really like to do. “Reading is an inhale and
writing is like an exhale”

Her childhood upbringing has brought her to reading where she learned to appreciate it and learned
that reading can really help a person’s mind to grow and influence people. "(similar quote) motivation
and perseverance to inspire others and to share stories with others and learning from other people."
Alanna's main motivation in writing is to inspire people and her goal in writing is to inspire, motivate,
and enriching people especially young children.

The style of writing she adapts depends on the genre and the audience and it varies especially with the
tone, mood, setting, characters and she uses narrative and descriptive style. "(Quote same
idea)Personally, her style is to make sure that her stories have a tone, a very strong character." "Writing
for children in a simplistic way where the children can understand it." She uses symbolisms where the
story will have a bigger kind of impact if the adults will read it

She was first interested in Instagram poetry and even has her own collection of prose and poetry before
writing Children's stories. Through writing poems, poetry, free verse, and metrics it improves her writing
skills and to express more "(quote) this motivated her to do bigger things and she evolved from this to
writing children’s books." Her stories went a lot of growing and changes like her first book “Little Hero”
that was once a poetic story but undergone a lot of editing and changes from her publisher for
marketability purposes.

"(Quote) plans to focus really on children because she finds it uplifting and fulfilling to be able to inspire
children and help them grow ." Currently, she's focusing on children’s stories or genre because she has
bigger goals for it and she also writes short stories.

"(Quote) stories are like a spur of the moment, it is influenced by the life around her." The creation of
her works started with random ideas, and thoughts written in a bullet form after which, she will
construct the structure, connects it and then make a story. Mostly, she struggles in incorporating less
conflicts and lessons to the story since she has a lot in mind. The whole process takes a couple of weeks.
"(Quote) if I many lessons to write of, it kind of motivates her to write another story."

[Praises and Criticisms] note: wag na tayo mag voice over here cut na lang the audios nga nag match ani
"Worst criticism: no originality in plot/idea" "She takes criticism in a way that there is more room for
improvement for her and be able to grow" "Best criticism: praises on her stories" "Amidst all the praises,
she remained humble and true to her works"