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I recently heard a story from a man named Malcolm Dalkoff. For the last 24 years he has been a professional writer. 1 is what he told me:
As a boy in Rock Island, Dalkoff was terribly shy. He had few friends and no self-confidence. One day, his English teacher, Ruth Brauch, gave the class an assignment. The students had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. 2 they were to write their own chapter that would follow the last chapter of the novel.
Dalkoff wrote 3 chapter and turned it in. Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote, 4 what grade Mrs. Brauch gave him. What he 5 remember is the four words Mrs. Brauch wrote in the margin of the paper: “This is good writing.”
Four words. 6 changed his life.
“Until I read those words, I had no idea who was or what I was going to be,” he said. “After reading her note, I went home and wrote a |
