Q: Pick your outfit carefully as the materials need to be durable and versatile. Your clothes must protect you from the elements with little to no maintenance. You do not want to stick out with tattered or dirty rags after you have been drifting for some time. Black is a good colour that keeps its integrity without having to wash frequently. It also gives you a sleek profile if you need to carry a lot of items in pockets. For example, find garments that are waterproof especially shoes. You may be walking a lot so shoes need to be comfortable and durable. Also, cargo pants or clothing with a lot of pockets can help ease the weight of a backpack. Have more the one of each item of clothing. Prepare to be able to survive without fresh clothing. It’s safe to have at least a week’s worth of socks and underwear. Also, have a couple sweaters and pairs of pants for when you are unable to do laundry. If you know that you will be in colder climates, pack warm socks, thermal underwear, gloves, and wool caps to keep your head warm. A backpack can free up your hands and be a lot more convenient to move around with relative to a duffle bag or suitcase. Make sure the backpack is large enough to fit your belongings and distributes the weight to your hips and off your shoulders.  You can purchase durable backpacks at army surplus stores or search online. A compression sack can help make extra room. A compression sack squeezes items like clothes and sleeping bags into a backpack to help conserve space by deflating any air stuck in creases and folds. Designed to be easily used in the army, simply sit on the sack to release the air as you tighten all the straps to ensure that it retains its size. Whenever possible, find a locker to keep your clothing and belongings in to ensure nothing gets lost or damaged. Keep any formal clothing like suits in your locker to allow you to have an outfit ready in case you want to go on job interviews or other important meetings.
A: Choose protective clothing for the season. Pack extra clothing. Carry everything in a backpack. Find a locker.

Q: Good study habits begin before you even leave the classroom.  Listen attentively to what the teacher has to say on the subject.  Ask questions, and answer the teacher’s questions.  Pay close attention for cues (or direct statements) from the teacher about what is most important to know, and take notes especially on these topics. Read the assigned chapter in the textbook, and read over any notes, handouts, or other materials given to you.  If there is a review or study session offered by the teacher, go to it.  Give yourself the best chance for success.  You'd be surprised by the number of people who do poorly on tests because they don't read the book. Don’t just read the assignment mindlessly — actively engage with it.  Pick out the important words (sometimes they’re in bold), look them up if needed, and write your own definition for them.  Carefully examine introductions, conclusions, review sections, and recap questions you find in textbook chapters. As with writing down your own definitions for key terms in the textbook chapter, it’s best to put all the critical information in your own words.  Keep a notebook and pen near you, and write out the key points you are studying.  If you have someone else’s notes, rewrite them yourself; it’s even best to rewrite your own classroom notes.  This is a proven trick to help your brain engage more in the material. Our brains engage the material we’re studying at multiple levels at once.  While we consciously take in and try to comprehend the material we’re studying, unconscious layers of our brain are working behind the scenes to organize and make sense of the material.  Stop every so often so that you can take advantage of this behind-the-scenes work you’re doing without realizing it. Concentrate intently on your study materials for a reasonable period of time (a half-hour, for instance), then take a step back, pull out a sheet of paper, and try to summarize what you’ve just learned in your own words.  You may be amazed at how much of the material you actually recall and understand.  You can also try summarizing the entire study session the day after. Associate what you’re learning in theory with a more practical or tangible example. If you are studying history, for instance, try to make a story related to the subject. Or visit a museum, battlefield, etc. associated with it.  If you’re reading about how to do a simple science experiment, try doing the actual experiment. Create games, songs, images, or other types of mnemonic devices to help you associate and recall the information.
A: Pay attention in class. Utilize all resources made available to you. Pick apart the textbook. Put information into your own words. Process, then summarize the information. Put the information into practice.

Q: The best picture books ware simple, yet somehow profound with the stories they tell. Think of Dr. Seuss' books; they were always very simple narratives, but the ideas  used carried a lot of weight. Think of a high concept that involves something that would appeal to a wide variety of ages.  Even if you feel tempted, try not to turn the story into a morality tale. Very few readers are going to be genuinely interested in reading a veiled lesson in etiquette or behaviour. If you're more of an illustrator than a storyteller, you can always  illustrate an existing story. There are countless picture books on the market that are based on classic fairy tales. Inspiration for stories can be found by immersing yourself in media. Films, music and books are all willing templates for your own stories. Most stories need interesting characters to populate the action with. Having spent some time mulling up a plot, the characters should come relatively naturally. While you should have a basic idea of the role each character will inhabit in the story, it's important to give them each a personal flavour. The best characters are easy to imagine having a life of their own beyond the confines of the narrative.  While you're concocting characters, you should also be thinking of the way they'll look in your illustrations. Visually drab characters with a rich psychological profile probably aren't suited for a picture book. Animals are very popular to use in children's picture books. Animals have a universal appeal, and anthropomorphizing them to fill human role makes them less offensive to some readers. Speaking generally, animals are also more interesting to draw. Using a word processor, write up the story as you see fit, dividing it into a clear beginning, middle and end. At this stage of writing, you needn't worry about the proper choice of words. You're just trying to get the ideas into a basic framework. From there, you'll be able to add a writer's tone and boost your wordplay. Keep your word count around the 500 word mark. Anything more will be difficult to fit into the book and will distract from the illustrations. It's best to be tactical and efficient with your word choice. With your narrative all written out, you need to divide it into as many pages as you have for the story in your book. Include at least one action per panel; anywhere from one to four sentences per page should be great. It will be much easier to edit out your work now that it is separated into smaller sections. Focus on one section at a time, and transform the template you have into writing with style and form. While the specifics will really vary depending on your tone as a writer and the subject matter, keeping it concise and poetic is usually essential for picture books.  Use simple, effective language that benefits the illustrations you'll be including. Simple rhymes are helpful, but don't build your writing around them specifically. A mediocre rhyme is worse than no rhyme at all. Alliteration is an easy trick, and makes the writing sound more melodious.
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Outline your story. Create some characters. Write a rough draft of your story. Divide your draft into pages. Edit and finalize your draft.