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10 Things Teens Should Know About Writing
As a teenage girl, I have to say that this advice is particularly sound. Of course, as a teenage writer, I don't like hearing my writing sucks, but I have to admit that even if it doesn't, it's still not as good as I want it to be. I have so much more to learn.
And the whole "You have to write every day" is something I've heard... oh, about a million times before, but I don't seem to be able to drill that into my head enough in order to actually do it. Because blogs don't count and schoolwork isn't really creative writing, so I doubt that counts.
I do have to wonder, though: Is being a part of a school newspaper really as geeky as Scalzi makes it out to be? Because I think I might become (gasp) an editor of the paper if my English teacher and I can get it together.
Other news:
* Reviews haven't been coming lately, even though I have two books finished. I'm thinking I'll hold out on writing them until I finish The Blind Assassin. I wish I was farther into the book than I am (I'm only two hundred pages into it), but I hope to be done with it by Saturday, in any case.
* I requested The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens via interlibrary loan and it's currently in transit. Even though I am (obviously) not an atheist, I felt it was high time I read one of those books by a prominent atheist, and I decided it'd be better if I started with an anthology of readings rather than a full-blown book. As a counterpoint, I also requested To Everyone An Answer edited by... several writers/scientists, including J. P. Moreland.
I figured it'd be nice to read those two in conjunction with one another, just to compare the worldviews more than perhaps I have.
* I want to get out more, but I have no clue what I can do. Any ideas?
As a teenage girl, I have to say that this advice is particularly sound. Of course, as a teenage writer, I don't like hearing my writing sucks, but I have to admit that even if it doesn't, it's still not as good as I want it to be. I have so much more to learn.
And the whole "You have to write every day" is something I've heard... oh, about a million times before, but I don't seem to be able to drill that into my head enough in order to actually do it. Because blogs don't count and schoolwork isn't really creative writing, so I doubt that counts.
I do have to wonder, though: Is being a part of a school newspaper really as geeky as Scalzi makes it out to be? Because I think I might become (gasp) an editor of the paper if my English teacher and I can get it together.
Other news:
* Reviews haven't been coming lately, even though I have two books finished. I'm thinking I'll hold out on writing them until I finish The Blind Assassin. I wish I was farther into the book than I am (I'm only two hundred pages into it), but I hope to be done with it by Saturday, in any case.
* I requested The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens via interlibrary loan and it's currently in transit. Even though I am (obviously) not an atheist, I felt it was high time I read one of those books by a prominent atheist, and I decided it'd be better if I started with an anthology of readings rather than a full-blown book. As a counterpoint, I also requested To Everyone An Answer edited by... several writers/scientists, including J. P. Moreland.
I figured it'd be nice to read those two in conjunction with one another, just to compare the worldviews more than perhaps I have.
* I want to get out more, but I have no clue what I can do. Any ideas?
