Write Whatever YOU Want!

Procrastination Quote of The Week:
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James

Writing Should Be Fun

Most of the time you write only because you have to. You are given an assignment and told to write about the topic that you are given. That’s never any fun. Who want to write about what the teacher thought about? After doing this over and over and over again, writing starts to be a chore. Well it doesn’t have to be. I started writing for fun when I was 7 years old. It was at the same time that I got a T.V. in my room and watched a lot of Transformers, He-Man and G.I. Joe. When the shows went off and I was left with my favorite action figures, I used to continue the stories that I watched on T.V. by acting them out with my toys. I did this all the time. But sometimes I would think of stories and I was nowhere near my toys to act them out. That’s how I started writing my ideas down. I would think of a story that I wanted the Transformers to do and I would write it down in a composite notebook. It was even better than the T.V. shows because I could let He-Man team up with the Autobots to defeat Skeletor and the Decepticons. Such a combination never happened in real T.V.shows. Later when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came along I put them in my stories too. Writing became fun because I could make up things that would never happen and put it on paper. You don’t just have to write stories. One of my classmates used to draw and write his own comics. Some of the other kids used to write rap songs and others wrote poems. You can also write letters and emails to friends or a book of jokes. Writing has become for me a way to get out all of the crazy ideas that I have in my head. Plus, the more you write for fun, the easier it is to write when your teacher wants you to write something that she thinks of.

Storytime and Book Signing

Dane Reid, the author of the book “Dana The Procrastinator”, a story of a boy whose chronic procrastination causes him to miss out on his own surprise birthday party, makes his visit to the Barnes & Noble at Fayetteville Pavillion. Dane Reid will appear for storytime, interactive discussion, Q & A and book signing at the south Metro Atlanta bookstore. Dane Reid’s in store appearance takes place on Saturday, May 9th at Barnes & Noble at Fayetteville Pavillion, 1415 Highway 85 North, Suite 200 Fayetteville, GA 30214 at 11:oo A.M.. For more information on “Dana The Procrastinator” logon to www.KidsReid.com and watch the book trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tuvdwvIH0.

To obtain information about this event contact J.C. Barb at (770) 716-2593