Who can help this aspiring young writer?
Hey, it’s great that you’ve kept at writing for so long! If you plan on submitting for publication, it would help to narrow your writing down to a few pieces that you like the best. Find a person or two who can read these pieces and give you their honest opinions and comments. Take their suggestions seriously and really polish those few pieces. You don’t have to be limited to a specific medium or genre, but it is often easier if you narrow your topic(s). Then, when you really feel that you’ve got something interesting, submit it to local publishers or writing contests (the kind you don’t have to pay for). I don’t know what there is for writers in England, but I know there are lots of contests for high-school and college age writers here in the US, so I’m sure there are similar things in London. There are lots of opportunities for writers all around the world, so if you writing skills are good (judging from your question, they are better than most) you shouldn’t have trouble finding a j
This is a common question in this category. Essentially, you need to tell a story that says “life is like that!” regardless of genre and learn the mechanics of storytelling. Feel free to e-mail me with any specific questions or send some examples and I can look at them and give advice, at least. When writing a story it’s like being in the wilderness because not many people understand how it’s done. Stories are a metaphor for life. Before you even begin to write you must have something to say or else your characters go from scene to scene without any meaning. There are three things that I believe are important and these three things are often confused with each other. Learning about these I think will help you to write a story: 1) Premise 2) Setting 3) Theme Let me illustrate the difference so you can easily find the theme and understand its difference from the setting and premise. By seeing how a writer creates stories, you can see it from his or her point of view and clearly find the
