sentences:  After awaking from a vivid dream about birds at war while simultaneously wrestling with her feelings about terrorism and September 11, Fan wrote "Swordbird" as a way to convey her message of peace to the world.At the age of eleven, she sat down at her computer and began writing a manuscript that she finished a year later.Fan emailed her manuscript to the CEO of HarperCollins, which led to the novel's 50,000-copy first printing.