Mr Prabh Mokha

Mr Mokha’s Visit to Room 9

On Wednesday the 28^th of November, after morning tea a teacher from Wanganui Girls College came to our class.  His name is Mr Prabh Mokha.  He is an author who is writing a series of books with the first book called ‘The Last Sanctuary’. He asked us what our favourite books were and what we like about them, and then he started to tell us about his new book.

Mr Mokha told us to guess about how many years it took him to write a four hundred paged book and the right answer was five years.

He gets up at five o’clock and writes for like one or two hours, every day.  Even when he is driving, at the back of his mind he thinks about how to make his book better. Mr Mokha gave everybody who answered a question a pen.

We learned a lot about how an author thinks and writes.  It was a great chance to learn these things from someone who writes regularly.

Some students  in my class had some  questions –

“Where do you get your inspiration?”

 “My inspiration is my daughters.  If they like it or not, they aren’t afraid to tell me and my oldest daughter is very intelligent - she even helped me make the trailer for the book”.

At the end he gave all of us a bookmark, a pamphlet about Wanganui Girls College and a book about it. He also signed the books himself and after that we all took a picture with him and thanked him for coming.  We were very lucky because he also left us with some digital copies of his book for our teacher to download.  I am looking forward to reading it as it sounds exciting  and our teacher has really enjoyed it.   

                                                                  

By Nimasha Fernando