MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012 WRITING TAKES WORK. YOU HAVE SHOWN YOU CAN WRITE AND WORK. THEREFORE, YOU CAN BE A GREAT WRITER. 3.2 PEOPLE ORGANIZE THEIR IDEAS WHEN WRITING.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney didn’t grow up wanting to be a children’s author. His dream was to become a newspaper cartoonist, but he wasn’t able to get his comic strips syndicated. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID

In 1998 Jeff came up with the idea for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a story about a middle-school weakling named Greg Heffley. Jeff worked on his book for almost eight years before showing it to a publisher in New York. BEING A GOOD WRITER TAKES WORK!

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, YOUR WRITING DEMONSTRATES YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO READ THAT WHICH YOU WRITE. YOUR PERSONALITY IS EVIDENT IN YOUR WRITING. “ONLY THE VERY WEAK-MINDED REFUSE TO BE INFLUENCED BY LITERATURE AND POETRY.” ― CASSANDRA CLARE, CLOCKWORK ANGEL

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012 Practice, practice, practice writing. Writing is a craft that requires both talent and acquired skills. You learn by doing, by making mistakes and then seeing where you went wrong. Jeffrey A. Carver - From the web site of Jeffrey A. Carver, Writing Advice,