...and the letters will form words and make a story.

Pencil illustration

“Just keep writing,” said Book. “Once I’m full of letters, I’ll simply jump up and down and the letters will form words and make a story.”

“I don’t think it’s that simple,” said Pencil.

“Well it works with the computer! That’s full of words, it even rearranges the letters to make sense when I write them in a jumble.”

“Are you sure about that?” mused Pencil. “We work as a partnership, I only write the words in your head, I think Computer has an agenda all of its own, changing the words you thought you’d written into something else entirely…”


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