for all of your wonderful letters, drawings, and e-mails.
Click here to read some of the letters you've sent and
click here to see some of the pictures you've drawn!

It's so cool that so many of you are already writing stories and poems on your own. You're way ahead of me!

Write whatever comes into your head: stories, poems or your thoughts, ideas, and dreams.

Or try one of these:

* Some gifts don't cost much at all. Your skills, natural abilities and talents are your special gifts. Which of these "gifts" have you shared with others lately?

* After writers finish the first draft, they rewrite—and rewrite again! Do you ever wish a certain "chapter" in real life could be rewritten? Take that chapter and rewrite it the way you wish it had happened.

—from way back in the Ice Age when I went to school in a cave— includes such exciting entries as:

I´m sure your journal will be much more interesting.