If you have ever struggled to figure out what to write, you are not alone. The best idea is to write what you know. This is what E. B. White did when he wrote the treasured children's book Charlotte's Web. Of course, White had to use his imagination to create the unlikely friendship between a pig and a spider. But his experiences as a farmer gave him the idea. The farm is based on his own farm in Maine. The barn he explains is the barn where he kept sheep and pigs. White raised the pigs for food, but he often felt bad about it. In a 1947 magazine article, White wrote about a time that he spent with a pig that was sick. He felt bad for the pig and tried to nurse it back to health. This pig gave him the idea for Wilbur, the kindhearted animal