Okay, we've all done it. Started a story that was supposed to be really good, got really hyped about it, daydreamed about the day it would get published, who would read it, what your friends and teachers would say...and then a week later it's gone. Then what are you supposed to do with that myspace page? Well, here are some tips to write...and more importantly, keep writing.
1. Start by writing a story you're going to be pasionate about. In other words, write something you would want to read. If you love reading fantasy, write it, if you hate romance, don't make love the theme. Easy peezy. The key thing about writing a story you love is it pulls you into it more, makes you want to write it, just so you can read it. That's when the story gets intresting.
2. Keep a writing log. I know, it sounds cheesy, but for people who can't stick to writing the same story, then this really works. Set yourself a goal, say, like a page a day, or a chapter a week, something like that. Every night write down what you wrote, and if you didn't write, put down why. Eventually you'll get so tired of hearing your own excuses that you'll either write, or just stop the journal...(although it's supposed to be the first one...)
3. Getting sidetracked is the worse, you know, when you're writing a story and it's going great at like page twenty, but then you get this uncontrollable itch to write another really cool story you just thought of! What do you do then???? Well...instead of writing a book with that brillient idea, write a short story, that way it makes the itch go away, you have another story, and it doesn't last long enough to sidetrack you. Well...unless the short story just happens to be like...150 pages long...
4. Don't worry about what others think, as much as what you think. If you know it's a good storyline, keep writing, people often don't know what's going to happen, and because as the author it's your duty to know, well you have a leg up on liking the story. So, if somebody says it's stupid, finish it and prove them wrong. They'll look like a fool, and you'll feel awesome.
5. Don't censor your work because you know somebodys going to read it. For example, a lot of things I've written in the past ended up being very juvinille because I was afraid of what my mother would say. To the cussing, to the subjects, things like that. So one day, I just told her that they were my stories, and I wasn't writing a memoir, it was a story, more importantly, my story. After that I stopped letting her read it, it was then that I began to write for myself. When you write, if you find your leaving out a good idea because of how somebody will react to it, then just tell youself that they shouldn't control your storry.
That's about it for now. I mean, there are of course a lot of other things that I'm not going to mention because of timing stuff...it's getting late. But I hope you found this in some way helpful. Starting a story is suprisingly easy, as is the last line, but it's everything inbetween that's difficult.
Always remember...
Nothing worth having comes easy.
and with that I leave you, good night and happy writings!
-JC
I won't show them my story untill it's finished because my mum isn't the sort of person i feel i can go to and say, here read this fantasy story and tell me what you like about it- were not really like that 
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