Oh, yes, I shall call it a diary--till I take it to be printed.

Then I shall give it its true name--a novel.

And I'm going to tell the printer that I've left it for him to make the spelling right, and put in all those tiresome little commas and periods and question marks that everybody seems to make such a fuss about.

If I write the story part, I can't be expected to be bothered with looking up how words are spelt, every five minutes, nor fussing over putting in a whole lot of foolish little dots and dashes.
As if anybody who was reading the story cared for that part! The story's the thing.
I love stories.

I've written lots of them for the girls, too--little short ones, I mean; not a long one like this is going to be, of course.