Hi there! Thanks so much for inviting on your blog. What a great idea to have a blog for young writers. When I was growing up we didn't have blogs – we didn't even have computers! Can you imagine that? Yep, that was the olden days, where I rode around in a horse and cart (no, not really – we had cars by then) and everything I wrote was by hand. Sometimes I still prefer to write my stories by hand. I always carry a notebook with me because you never know when a good idea is going to come to you. My notebooks are full of ideas: things I remember from my childhood, drawings, snippets of conversations I may have heard, even cuttings from newspapers and magazines that interest me. Sometimes I might even begin a story in my notebook, then when I feel it begin to take shape, I'll begin to type it out on my computer. A notebook is a great place to practice your writing. Because, like everything, if you want to be good at something, what do you have to do? Yep, that's right – practice! Imagine if you were a runner and you turned up on race day to run your 100 metre sprint without having done any practice. You wouldn't do your best run, would you? Well, writing is just the same. The more you practice in your notebook, the more likely it is that when you do finally sit down at the computer, the ideas will flow. The more you write, the better you get at writing. Good luck! And have fun.

Best wishes,

Sally Rippin

www.sallyrippin.com

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

The bear and the ant


Deep in the great jungle there lived a bear and an ant.  The bear was named Seamus.  He was a greedy, smelly and mean.  Mia the ant was a friendly and cute ant.  They both absolutely hated each other.

Later on in the day two men went hunting for a bear.  They were planning to dig an enormous, gigantic wonderful pit. Then they would cover the pit with leaves and grass and the bear would fall in. 

 As Seamus was wandering in the forest BOOM he fell in the pit. Mia heard the sound and said I'll go and get help. Seamus roared with laughter and bellowed, "a little ant like you, can't help a big bear like me". Mia quickly gathered all the ants from her colony and built an enormous ladder made out of sticks. They gave the ladder to the bear so the bear could get out. As Seamus got out of the pit, he said thank-you to the ants and they became friends. Now Seamus was as kind as Mia.

 By Jena Osman


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