Janet Wong sold her first book of poems, Good Luck Gold, eighteen months after she quit her job as a lawyer.

While taking a writing class, Wong realized that poetry, her least favorite genre in elementary school, might in fact become her most successful genre as a writer. After discussing it with her husband, Wong quit her job, started writing, and quickly piled up rejection letters. One day, as she was shopping in a children’s book store, it struck her that what she really wanted to do was write books for children. While working as the Director of Labor Relations at Universal Studios, Wong realized that she was unhappy in her line of work. She later earned a law degree from Yale and spent the next four years practicing law.

And she wasn’t much of a reader either â€” she found reading to be too quiet and lonely.Īt the University of California in Los Angeles, Janet Wong studied history. In fact, she hated poetry in elementary school because of the way it was taught. There were no early signs that Janet would become an author or a poet. While growing up in California, she enjoyed watching TV with her dad, playing with her friends, catching lizards, and riding her skateboard. She was the daughter of a Chinese father and a Korean mother. A week after Hibiki’s letter went in the mail, according to his father, he got another one back.Janet Wong was born in Los Angeles in 1962. Hibiki’s father, who goes by kentarock1020 on Twitter, posted both his son’s letter and - best of all - a personalized response from Nintendo of Japan itself. That’s useful for players with visual impairments like the young Hibiki. Rhythm Heaven relies on tapping a button in time with various rhythms, creating humorous tunes and sounds. And it’s perfectly fine if you make them a little harder too!” “So I really, really want you to make more games,” he added. I’ve gotten perfect scores on all the versions on the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wii, and 3DS too. It’s the only game I can enjoy together with others, and I never lose at it. “But there aren’t many games I can play at all. “I am blind, but I’ve always wanted to play video games like everyone else,” Hibiki wrote, according to a translation by RocketNews24. The Rhythm Heaven games are, in fact, the only ones Hibiki can play with ease - he’s blind, as he told Nintendo in a heartfelt letter his father shared on social media. Hibiki Sakai is a Japanese fifth-grader who loves drumming and Rhythm Heaven, Nintendo’s cult beloved series of quirky rhythm games.

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