So you want to write a story, but you don’t know what to write about. What should you write about when you don’t know what to write? Should you just sit around and wait for a story idea? Boooooring. There are all kinds of ways to find writing prompts, or things to get you started […]
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*** Not my favorite but it might be yours. The main character is a boy throughout the book, but Echo, a girl, has just as strong a part. About 190 pages. Echo McCool: Outlaw Through Time by Roger K. Driscoll In short: a magical girl from the distant past, trapped in a tree throughout centuries,
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My daughter signed up for the Young Writers’ Program this year (her first). Then sat down and wrote like 500 words. Okay, November hasn’t started yet, but who am I to tell her she has to wait? I’m not that foolish. — You’re a kid. You’re a writer (or you just like making things up but
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Another post for kids who write… Anything you write is a victory. Almost every writer (no matter what age, no matter how famous they are, no matter how well you think they write) has moments or even whole years where they go, “THIS IS AWFUL.” Sometimes that feeling hangs around, even after the story is
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The Magic Carpet by Jodie Brownlee **** Recommended. I read it all the way through in one evening. About 140 pages. In short: Harry Potter meets the Arabian Nights. The main character is a girl, but boys play a strong role in this adventure as well. The story starts out with Ruby, whose mother wants
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If you are interested in a print copy of Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories, it’s available through CreateSpace for $9.99, plus shipping. Within a week, it should be available via Amazon, and after a few weeks, through other online venues. Eventually, I’ll set up my own store…but not today 🙂
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So you’re a kid and you want to be a writer. Where do you start? 1) Find out what you like. Obviously, before you learned how to write, you learned how to read–by listening to your parents read stories to you or something like that. Listening to and enjoying stories tells you both what a
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Looking for something Halloweenish, with zombies, pirates, robots, ghosts, death, and other adventures for a middle-grader? Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories by De Kenyon Now at Smashwords, OmniLit, Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and other online stores. In print at CreateSpace.com. Ten tales of death, invasions from other realms, bullies, babysitters, liars,
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