Rydia

With prose, I often get a scene in my head, a tiny piece of plot or a character and then work the novel or short story around that. For example, ...

What's it about? How far have you got? Go ahead and tell us a little bit about it and you can use this space to keep us updated on your ...

Think about it now by all means but there's no need to make any decisions for a long time yet. At your age, I still thought I wanted to be ...

I'll just echo Suzanne here and say you should spend some years editing first. You're unlikely to find anyone who will take you seriously at this age, even if your ...

I think it sounds good and I'd like to hear more of the plot. Would the father of the child be featuring in it much? And how old is the ...

I think you're planning too far ahead. Concentrate on finishing book one before you plan the plots for the others because you might just find that it doesn't turn out ...

By style I just meant are you the type to use lots of description or do you favour dialogue? That sort of thing. And fantasy should be pretty easy to ...

Well you're going to need an idea that you can take all the way seenas this isn't a personal project so try to make a list of things that interest ...

Info dumps are to be avoided and I would class the example given as one but sometimes the occasional spill of information is necessary. I think then that they're acceptable.

What age group were you thinking? I wrote and created a children's pop up book as my graphics project a few years ago but I'm thinking five to seven isn't ...

It could but that's only the characters. What's the plot? Why do the two pairs need to meet each other? Is there a lesson for Stella and Fred to learn?

1. Finish a second joint novel - Simple, just phone Claire at least once a month and get the story written. Afterall, the plan is complete and we're both quite ...

Good idea Jasmine. I will be watching your progress. And I'll hopefully have time to e-mail you before I go out tonight.

My sister and I started a novel the summer before last and are still going through the drafting process but we tried to publish it three times along the way. ...

I'm not sure. Have you tried searching for the paper on the internet or asking your teacher? They'll probably have a copy issued to them by the board.