Red and Rover by Brian Basset for January 05, 2023

Just write as much as you need to to meet the three-page requirement.

Save and write more later for future sequels when you need them.

I had trouble writing three page essays when I was at junior school. This was because I hadn’t learned about paragraphing and wrote all three pages without splitting them into paragraphs.

You guys are over thinking it, lol!

I remember having to write a biographical essay. I chose my father for my subject. One of the things that I wrote about was that my dad had to take a rifle with him through the woods to get to his bus stop for school. The teacher refused to believe it, thought I had misspelled “knife”, and corrected it. I can still see the red “k” in front of my handwritten “rifle”; I guess she didn’t see the “l”. She also wouldn’t acknowledge that my father was older than most of my peer’s fathers, having been born in 1929 (and this was in the ’70s).

Red, I see the wheels turning!

Oh, too much !!! Silly boy

Red, Rover will not lead you astray, well not unless a squirrel goes running by and then all bets are off.

Ooh, I wonder where Red’s lightbulb moment has us headed?

When I was in grade school we had to write an essay about a “pastime.” I thought the word meant something that had happened in the past ( “past time”). Only when a couple of students read their essays out loud did I realize my mistake—but I had a great teacher who recognized my error and gave me an A for the quality of my writing. (I eventually became a publications editor!)

Great strip this date… very insightful. And Red is thinking ahead, too.

Write it like one of those old cliffhanger serials. “To be continued, next week…”

I’m sure Red, that You and Rover have a lot of adventures so far, to write 3 pages and you’ll continue to have more to come, in the future …….. :)

This story shall go on good for ever and ever in all eternity!