Dear Writers,

Writers aren’t people who have the most interesting or important things to say. They’re just people who have figured out an interesting way to say it.

Your personal narrative topic might not be too exciting. Mine is about a squirrel in my kitchen. Most people have had a wild animal in the house, many of them probably worse than a squirrel. But the quality of my personal narrative is all about how well I tell the story.

Robert Frost wrote a poem comparing fireflies to the stars. That sounds pretty boring. But he did it in such a beautiful and meaningful way that we still read it and memorize it one hundred years later.

Sincerely,

Mr. Heimbuck