I am a 13 year old needing help!

[ITSAMEMARIO]

Hello everyone, I am looking for one email buddy or 2 buddies to write a novel with. I want to write a fantasy novel like The Lord of the Rings. Do not get me wrong...I am talented in the subject of English and have several awards from my school board to prove it, but I am looking for someone around my age that is interested in Middle-Earth and other J.R.R. Tolkien creations. Thank you and good luck on all your writings. Email me at buddykid316@yahoo.com to show me some of your ideas I will email you back if I show any particular interest in your ideas.

[HConn]

Are you 13 or 14?

Your post says 13, but your public profile says 14. I'm afraid the discrepancy looks a little fishy.

But I will assume that you turned 14 last week and typed 13 out of habit (or something). First of all, never post your age on a public website. You have no idea who is reading your message, and you could attract attention from the wrong people.

Next, instead of asking other writers to send you their ideas (for your approval) you should simply look for a forum devoted to Tolkein, fantasy and teen writers (I think one was just created at sff.net) where you can talk about your love of the material and maybe rub elbows with pro writers, some of whom you might have already read and admired.

Simply put: "Email me at buddykid316@yahoo.com to show me some of your ideas I will email you back if I show any particular interest in your ideas." isn't how it's done. You should write the novel on your own and socialize with others doing the same thing. After you've met someone you have a rapport with (and your parents have vetted him or her to make sure they aren't a pedophile creep), then and only then should you consider a working partnership.

Writing partnerships are like marriage. They can last a long time and they can be a real headache if they don't work out. You also have to prove that you have something to bring to the relationship and I'm afraid you're only going to do that by sharing your completed manuscript with people you trust.

Good luck.

(Also sent by email)

[veingloree]

You might also want to try the sub-forum specifically for findingh writing partners p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm13 (http://p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm13)

[Maryn]

I don't know how this site computes the age in the profile, but mine was wrong until my birthday yesterday. (I resented the hell out of it, too!) I didn't give this site a DOB or my age, so I presume they lifted it from the email account profile--but took only the year, not the date.

Maryn, older and wiser than yesterday

[maestrowork]

There seems to be a lot of 13-15 yo new members lately, and they all seem to like writing fantasy. Is it a trend among young people these days? Brought on by LotR and Harry Potter? Or it's been a trend all along?

[spooknov]

I think it's been a trend for quite some time. It's just now being noticed due to the popularity of Harry Potter and TLOR. Back in the day (hee. I crack me up!) while I was reading every horror novel I could get my hands on, most of my teen friends were reading sci-fi and fantasy. Unfortunately, the movie industry was not focusing on fantasy as they are today.

[madeya ru]

I think some of it also has to do with the popularity of D&D. I've noticed on other boards I've frequrented that many of the young writers were basing their novels and their worlds off of D&D quests, and it seemed that many of them were creating characters and monsters based off of the D&D character sheet.

[Yeshanu]

I think some of it also has to do with the popularity of D&D. I've noticed on other boards I've frequrented that many of the young writers were basing their novels and their worlds off of D&D quests, and it seemed that many of them were creating characters and monsters based off of the D&D character sheet.

That's how I started writing. <blush>

It isn't really a bad way to start (Is there a bad way to start writing?) but you need to move on...

And yes, I think Harry Potter in particular has a lot to do with the increase in fantasy fans, as well as writers like Tamora Pierce. I think each generation has it's genre. When I think back to my childhood/teen years, detective novels like Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins and Trixie Belden were all the rage.

I eventually grew out of them.

[veingloree]

I think popular fandoms are always a way into writing and a lot of them a fantasy at the moment. I came in mainly through Sherlock Holmes, but then I had a library card but not VCR.

[maestrowork]

Oh yeah, I can remember my mystery/detective days -- Hardy Boys, Agatha Christie, Nancy Drew, etc.I remember going to the school library and checking out the whole Hardy Boys series, and I could barely read English those days.

[madeya ru]

That's how I started writing. <blush>

That's how my son started writing, also. Then he told me one day that trying to base a novel on a D&D game isn't feasible. Said it doesn't go into story form very well. He gave up and moved onto to something else. It doesn't matter how you start writing, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with basing your novel on a D&D game, the important thing is not how you start, but that you start. I started in historical romance because that's what I read at the time. Decided it was too complicated and moved on. And now I really wonder what I've gotten myself into with my WIP. Sigh, I hate rewriting.

[James D Macdonald]

The first book I wrote, back when I was twelve, was a Hardy Boys pastiche.

[Yeshanu]

Sigh, I hate rewriting.

A shameless plug for my new poem here:

p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm31.showMessage?topicID=386.topic (http://p197.ezboard.com/fabsolutewritefrm31.showMessage?topicID=386.topic)

Uncle Jim,

You make me feel a bit better. Except I'm not twelve...

(Better get writing.)

[madeya ru]

Now I'm going to sit in front of my computer muttering "Precious, my precious." When I start slinking around like Golam (however you spell it), then I think there's a problem. Nice poem, Ruth.

[Akuma]

Way to go, man. I'm 15 and doing something of the sort. Except I'm not buddying up with anyone for my story. Mine. My own.... my precious

Don't give up! Writing is teh roxors, as they say in l33t.

Akuma :peace

[JoannaC]

That is a great attotude, Akuma! I commend you for your dedication. I started writing when I was about 10 (spent many years on cutesy rhyming poems) and my sister who is 16 write for awhile then got bored. Right now my 14-year-old brother is really into writing, and it working on a novel that he claims will be like the movie Band of Brothers, but with made up people and possibly something about Japan. And perhaps a submarine. I have been really trying to be encouraging to him. I think all forms of creativity are a great thing.