★ Introduction

This book is the culmination of a semester-long project that required lots of research and creativity. Writing this book has been a pleasant experience. Since the book was written over the course of a few months, I had time between sections to come up with an even more bizarre topic than the previous one. Every few weeks or so, a section of the book was completed until all the sections were put together. Initially, the book was only going to be on tomatoes, but I felt that it would be best to include different topics in order for the reader to find the book fun and surprising. I hope that this book is enjoyable. This book was created to help me, the author, and you, the reader, become better writers. I hope that when you feel like you are struggling with writing, you can turn to my book of writing to facilitate writing. We can all be better writers. I hope that at least one person finds this book helpful, even if that one person is me. I hope that this book will help us overcome the anxiety that writing brings us; as long as we know the basics of writing, writing should be simple for us.