Kid President: Dear Santa, No, no, no, let's say dearest Santa.
No, no dearest fat man in a suit. This is so hard!
Sometimes doing creative things is easy. Like when I wrote my first novel.
But sometimes it's really hard! This letter to Santa is never going to get done. I wish a best selling
author would magically appear. Nick Hornby: Hey Kid President! It's Nick
Hornby here, best selling author. Kid President: What are you doing here?
Nick: I happened to know that you're struggling with a letter to Santa, so I'm here to give
any advice you need. I'll bill you later. Kid President: Did you write Harry Potter?
Nick: You've never heard of me! You must have read High Fidelity.
Kid President: You didn't write Twilight? Nick: [laughs]
Kid President: So you're going to help me write a letter to Santa?
Nick: I do this for tons of writers. You know Charles Dickens? I didn't do Oliver Twist
but I did the rest. You know Jane Austen she wrote Clueless, you
ever see that movie Clueless? I helped her with that.
Kid President: So best selling author Nick Hornby how do I write?
Nick: If you can speak, you can write. Kid President: That's it?
Nick: And I know that you can talk very well. Kid President: Oh I can talk boy.
Nick: That's all writing is, another way of talking.
Kid President: Can I just do a powerpoint? Charts and stuff like having those charts.
Nick: Hm, my feeling is, the way things are now, Santa is going to be bombarded by powerpoints
with videos and texts. Kid Preisdent: But I don't know about it Nick
Hornby. Nick: Kid President, I've been in the New
York Times best seller list. Are you listening to me?
Listen I've been writing professionally for twenty years. I got nominated for an Academy
Award. Kid President: Alright alright, well help
me I'm stuck! Nick: This is a big letter, this is an important
letter so don't dress it up in any fancy stuff. Writing is best when it's simplest and if
you really want these things and say so directly, say it with soul, and I think he'll listen
to you. Kid President: Here it goes.
[music] Nick: Okay, let me hear what you got so far.
Kid President: What do you think Nick Hornby? Nick: Fantastic!
Kid President: Good huh? Nick: And now you need to rewrite every single
word! That was your first draft. I reckon when you've got to maybe fifteen twenty you're
done. Good to meet you, bye! Kid President: Bye Nick Hornby! Thank you
for nothing! Nick: One more thing Kid President, this might
be helpful to you. There are all these really cool schools in America and England and the
one in England is called Ministry of Stories and that helps kids exactly like you with
writing right now we're helping kids write to Santa. So come to London we'd be happy
to have help! Kid President: Kids need people to teach them
how to write and also teach them how to live. So my challenge to all you people watching,
how can you help kids live a better story. It would be really cool if you share a video
with your thoughts! Let's tell a better story people. I'll leave you to discuss. But right
now, I got some serious dancing to do.
[music]
Live a better story! I'm out!
Hey, on a personal note everybody. The only reason
I'm able to talk to people, cool people like Nick Hornby because you guys watch and share
my videos. Keep it up! Thank you from the bottom of my little heart. I love you bye!
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