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"Is it a good story?"

"It is. It's very vivid and you're making sure your character's personality is clear and explains everything you're doing and those are really important and hard for a lot of people to do."

More wriggling. "I was thinking about how to make the writing device so I can write faster. I think so much faster than I can make all the letters right and it's terribly frustrating."

"Writing gets faster and easier with practice, but most people also let their penmanship get a little sloppy."

"I can't make ugly things," he says, as if this is obvious, and keeps forming letters that look exactly like the ones in her book."

"Why not? They'd still be readable."

"They'd be ugly and people'd think I was ugly and making the world uglier."

"Everyone else wouldn't even see the story, just the ugliness!"

"Why would they be looking?"

"If I don't publish it isn't a real work, it's just practice."

"Most people edit their stories at least a little before they publish them."

"But I want to write more stories! When will I have time to write this one all over?"

"Well, I suppose you don't have to revise it if you like how it turns out on the first try. Maybe you could be faster at cursive?" She writes out the cursive alphabet. "The letters join up so you don't have to pick up your pen."

He finds some paper and starts practicing. "It's prettier, too! Or a different kind of pretty."

"It's considered fancier, anyway, although while people's print can get messy people's cursive can get downright illegible if they're not as precise as you with forming every letter."

"I don't want to be illegible."

"I don't think that is likely to be a problem you will have. It just happens if people are trying to write really fast -" She scribbles out a word in loopy rapid cursive.

"I am trying to write really fast," he says, writing much slower, "I just haven't succeeded yet."

"You're trying to write as fast as you can and still have it look like it came off a scriber. That's different from just trying to write really fast."

"I'd ruin it and then I'd be awful."

"I don't think making tilty letters would make you awful. That's one of the silliest things you have ever said."

That earns sort-of a smile. "What is the definitely silliest thing I have said?"

"I don't know, I didn't keep a list."