Thank you, Julia and Emma! Sorry to have dropped out half way through but I've caught up. #ukteenchat
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Thank you, Julia and Emma! Sorry to have dropped out half way through but I've caught up. #ukteenchat
Great advice!
Very methodical! #ukteenchat
Ooh, you're an early riser!
Ah, how frustrating!
That's fabulous that he loved it! #ukteenchat
That must have been a lot of work!
Hi #ukteenchat!
Aw, thank you!
Thank you for having me! It's been great! Thanks for the questions, and thank you for everyone who joined the chat! Make sure those cat stories get written!
I think it might. I had a very unusual upbringing (long story) so my books were all bought for me by my mum from a list of excellent books for teens! Yes, raise a formal complaint! 😉
Magical!
...get hung up on your first story - write more, and more, and more!
There's a space for adapting your writing to audience - if you want readers, it's got to be accessible! But don't go so far as to sacrifice your true voice. Writing from the heart is better than writing from the head, trying to be smart and witty. And don't...
I think both of you are younger than me, but I was led to a fair amount of authors whose books were marketed at younger teens - Alan Garner, Rosemary Sutcliff for instance. They were fantastic.
A short story about a cleaner who gets locked in a museum overnight and hears mysterious singing coming from one of hte rooms...I really ought to be editing one of my many half-finished projects, but the sparkle of the new calls!
Wow, I think I should have been given a warning about how scary this chat can get! 😅
I like writing in cafes, but mostly because it's a good excuse to drink tea and eat cake. Currently I'm doing my best writing (as in, it flows out of the pen well) in my dressing gown on the sofa first thing in the morning, pen and notebook, tea and cat.
That's such a fab idea that I think there's room for more than one in the world!
I suspect the real secret to getting kids to read is to pretend to ban all books!
Both! Some stories were plotted, others I just sped through. Some were pantsed then needed a lot of plotting to wrestle into shape - or sense.
That's not unusual!
It was! But oh my, it took a lot of work!
Whimsical adults who haven't quite grown up. There aren't elements that are unsuitable for children overall but the problems the characters face are adult problems.
It is!
You may be right! Maybe he's just a pussycat really!
I'm going to have bad dreams tonight!
...the first (an archaic style) and the last (where I finally settled on something more likely to appeal to a modern audience while at the same time feeling like "me".
Oh, that's a tricky one! OK, I'll say the fairy tale type of the beast bridegroom. Because it was a very early attempt at a fairy tale, and I had to rewrite my version six times before it was accepted by the editors of the anthology it went into. My style changed dramatically between...
That is such a good point!