Hi. I'm a 15 year old boy who just love to write. ?

Question

I love to to write essays, poems, science fiction and especially stories. My ambition is to be an author and publish a book at a young age. I do not know whether my work is good enough or not, so I really need some advice and comment on my stories. Please visit this link : http://hanming-writer.blogspot.com

I really hope you can help me and please give me some advice on what I should do next and the quality of my stories. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

I am a author of a published book. A lot of the answers here are right but so off-putting. Have fun and experiment. A great book to learn from is BBC Bitesize Revision KS3. It is a fantastic resource that will help you to bring even more life to your characters and plot and structure of your writing.

Try to edit your work a bit more. Think of it as a block of stone and like a sculpter you must carefully chip away or edit it to produce something creative and readable. Writing is not so difficult. What is difficult is editing, making certain it all makes sense in the right context. It takes a keen eye for detail. Read the words aloud if you can and re-read, re-read and re-read again until you cannot see or hear anymore mistakes and reading it flows and flows and you are gripped by it.

Good luck!

Answer 2

That was impressive. Look online for contests to enter, and that could help you plan out your next step as a writer.

Answer 3

i can't give you advice (im not really good at that) but i can definetly tell you that your going somewhere with that

Answer 4

You defiantly got something there. I like the cat one but found the longer one a bit too much to read at this time of day. You have got to proof read more grammar etc. Each time you read it you will see something is missing or not making any sense. keep it up though I am sure you have a lot of talent.

Answer 5

well, for a start your title is wrong 'just love to write' does not make sense, if you're a good writer at least use proper English! 'who just loveS to write' and you already have a '.' (full stop) so there is not need for the '?' well its a question so there was no need for the full stop!

and it's '15-year-old'

your title should read like this.

'Hi. I'm a 15-year-old boy who just loves to write?' and even that in itself is quite a strange question to be fair......?

Answer 6

Maybe before you start writing, you should try to learn proper grammar first - it should be "who just LOVES to write" instead of "who just love to write"

Answer 7

That's a great ambition.

Now, your poem... I'm not a poem expert, I'm a fiction writer, but I know how poems are supposed flow and I couldn't really... get the beat of yours. It was a great idea and I really loved the last stanza, but I felt like you were really trying to tell a story. Poems are generally a mixture between word play and a story with missing parts I think. Maybe you should try rewriting it as a short story - don't worry if it's only a page or half a page, because that really doesn't matter. And, if that doesn't work out, you can try messing around or rewriting the poem to see how that goes.

Now, I began to read your second piece of work - Cyborg Mania - but didn't finish it due to time. The first thing I noticed, however, was your change in tense in the first sentence. You go from past to present and the only way that would work would be if the line "he is neither man nor robot" was a thought or something like that. Otherwise, it should be "he was neither man nor robot".

The second thing is that you do a lot of explaining. That's a no-no. What you want to do is tell the story, unravel it, allow the reader to be put inside the story and basically watch it unfold. Now, what you're explaining in the first paragraph is probably important for the reader to know. Try putting it in a prologue - ie, write out the event as it happens and, once it's finished, you can start on your first chapter. That's how I usually do it if I have info for the reader that happens prior to where I plan on starting the actual story.

Skipping down a few paragraphs, you're recapping for some reason. You're also explaining, repeating and not showing the reader. It’s almost like you’re a writing textbook. IE - In one paragraph, you're talking about how Julie dies and Vaugn is incredibly sad. Instead of saying he's sad, he misses Julie, thus he tries to recreate Julie, etc, etc. you could say something like "Vaugn was at a loss of what to do with himself" (cheesy, no?), and it would show that without Julie, he'd be a bit lost in the world. Instead of telling the reader, you want to show them. Another example, instead of saying, “he was nervous” or something you could have him playing with a pen or nibbling his lip. Do get what I’m saying?

I'm gonna end here, because this is getting pretty lengthy. Haha. But, anyway, before you post, I hope you're editing, because it makes you look like an idiot if you don't and if you have any questions or want an opinion, whatever it is, feel free to email me. (;

Answer 8

You have real talent!  People like you bring joy to people who love to read.  I love your poem and you are an upcoming writer.  Who inspired you?  I have some advice for you.  When you write stories and you have some original ideas, have an attorney have a patent number for your ideas.  Copy write laws can protect your original and hard work your wonderful imagination created.  I love sci-fi too.  Have you thought of being a screen writer?  There are many career possiblilities for you.