No one was at Team Seven's usual training ground, so Naruto decided that it would be the perfect place to begin his story. He sat against a target post and he began writing:
Naruto is the ultimate ninja in the village of konoha and will become hokage. there is also a girl in konoha more beautiful than any onther and she is named sakura. she would be madly in love with me if that stupid sasuke didn't always interfere.
"Naruto. Are you alright?" Sakura asked. She had come to the training ground to practice her jutsus. She had become concerned when she had found Naruto with his nose in a paper, which was very unlike the Naruto she knew.
"I'm fine," Naruto responded casually.
"What are you doing?" She was intrigued to discover that something other that food or training could occupy his thoughts for any length of time.
"Jiraiya's publisher is in town. He wants me to replace Jiraiya, so I've got to write a book better than him."
"Let me see," Sakura said sceptically. She doubted that anyone would want Naruto writing for them and assumed that he had misunderstood what the publisher had said. It was a good opportunity for her though. As long as Naruto was writing, he would not be bothering her.
"This is... Horrible. How can you expect anyone to read this?" Sakura shuddered in horror at what she had just read.
"It's a great story," Naruto defended indignantly, "besides, it's not done yet."
"How can you write a book if you can't even write properly?" Sakura asked, "Look at this. You didn't capitalize Konoha , Sakura or Sasuke. You have to capitalize all the names and first letters of every sentence." Sakura began to scratch letters off the paper and replaced them with her own.
Naruto is the ultimate ninja in the village of Konoha and will become hokage. There is also a girl in Konoha more beautiful than any onther and she is named Sakura. She would be madly in love with me if that stupid Sasuke didn't always interfere.
"That's a little bit better. Don't you agree Naruto?"
"I guess," Naruto said.
"Look here," Sakura told him as she pointed to a word on the paper, "You misspelled another and you used the pronoun me, when you were referring to the Naruto character in the third person. This could still be a lot better."
Naruto is the ultimate ninja in the village of Konoha and will become hokage. There is also a girl in Konoha more beautiful than any other and she is named Sakura. She would be madly in love with him if that stupid Sasuke didn't always interfere.
CH2 Lessons
Spell correctly. If you cannot spell, you cannot write. Get yourself a dictionary or use or Google for words that you are unsure of.
Capitalize the first letter of every sentence, and the first letter of every proper noun. Proper nouns include all names of people, places, languages, and cardinal directions, and trademarks. Even the names of objects can be proper nouns; while cookie is a common noun, Oreo is a proper noun. Learn to recognize them and capitalize them.
Make sure to refer to all characters in the third person, unless you are voicing their thoughts. Not me, not you, but: him, her, he, she, it, them, they, etc...