Never Do the Following

Rules, rules, rules! You find them everywhere.

I even found some in a guide book to a Florida vacation area.

But these weren’t strictly rules. They were more like advice. In Emerald Coast Guide, I found all sorts of advice and things to avoid.

Quirky Beach Rules

For instance, in their “NEVER do the following” column, they mention some obvious things and some funny things:

Write a Story from an Animal’s Perspective

HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS

How do you write a story about Alaska before people arrived? You make animals the main characters, which is exactly what James A. Michener does in Alaska.

Michener creates Matriarch, a mammoth that is old enough to be the grandmother of many other mammoths. Through her eyes, we see the landscape and experience the early troubles of the area now known as Alaska.