Friday, August 12, 2011

Is this a Good Start on a story?

You aren't really telling a story; what you're doing is just giving information, and that is not going to "hook" your prospective readers, which is the effect that you, as a writer, really want to have. Begin your story with action, something intriguing and compelling which is happening in the life of your protagonistm Maddie. As you write, at appropriate points in the story, reveal information such as Maddie's physical characteristics, details about her family; don't introduce all of her friends immediately. A novel should be predominantly about incidents in the lives of its characters, conflicts which they face and overcome. The reader doesn't want to have to plow through boring details to reach the gist of the story. Another absolute essential for fiction is dialogue; your characters need to converse (scintillatingly!) interestingly. You are very young at eleven, so you are quite inexperienced as a writer. If writing is your pion, simply practice so that you can become proficient as you mature. When you write, too, try not to change tenses (choose either present or past and stay with it), and use your spell-checker and thesaurus. (I have written two novels and would not haved considered doing so without employing those features in my word processing program.) Not to be too critical, I hope, because I do want to encourage you to continue writing, I must mention that what you've posted contains numerous errors in grammar: Although young people nearly unanimously say, "Me and someone do something", that is NEVER grammatically correct; you should ALWAYS say. "Someone and I do something"; I is used as the subject of a sentence, while me is an objective pronoun, and you should not really put yourself first. Also, read many novels to learn how professional authors create their stories. Keep writing! Good luck!

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