{"id":12685,"date":"2019-02-28T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T23:30:25","slug":"making-the-imaginary-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2019\/02\/28\/making-the-imaginary-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the ‘imaginary’ a reality"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last year, freshman Cambria Tognaci published her first novel. According to Tognaci, she knew she wanted to be an author since early in her childhood. By the age of 13, she had already started writing her first ideas and drafts, which later turned into one big idea for a book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI planned and planned from 2012 to 2015,\u201d Tognaci said. \u201cOnce I had my message, I finally got to writing and let my imagination take me from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tognaci\u2019s dream of being an author turned into reality in July 2018 when her first book, \u201cImaginary Friends,\u201d was published.<\/p>\n

\u201cImaginary Friends\u201d is a young-adult fantasy about a girl who experiences abuse, foster care and mental illness. Tognaci\u2019s passion for both writing and foster care meet in this book. Tognaci said her work as a nanny and work with kids who have hard lives at home were who inspired her. She said it opened up her eyes to difficult family relationships some kids go through.<\/p>\n

Freshman McLane Ramsey, a friend of Tognaci, was surprised when she found out that her peer was a published author.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t expect to meet someone my age who had already accomplished something as big as writing a novel,\u201d Ramsey said. \u201cOnce I got to know Cambria and saw that her heart is so passionate for social work, it all made sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tognaci\u2019s passion for foster care is what inspired her to choose social work as her major. Tognaci said the topic of abused kids have always been heavy on her heart due to the experience of the people she grew up around. The main purpose of her book is to bring awareness to these issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want people to know the reality to all these things,\u201d Tognaci said. \u201cI just want the \u2018average\u2019 person to be more aware about these pressing issues around us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tognaci will be speaking about her novel at an HU Speaks event on March 22. HU Speaks, a public speaking club that is designed to help students improve their communication abilities.<\/p>\n

Allie Harbuck, a member of HU Speaks, said she is excited that Tognaci will be speaking at their next event because of how inspiring she is to other young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe makes the dream seem more possible for me and I hope that she will help inspire everyone who attends to work toward their dreams as well,\u201d Harbuck said.<\/p>\n

Tognaci said she is honored to be a part of the event and cannot wait to spread the message of \u201cImaginary Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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