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Originally Posted by mammamaia
go with talia's advice on this... s/he's dead on, sorry to say...
on another tack, you're young, so you have to consider that this one may just be for 'practice'... trying to write for the adult market if you're still in your teens is not that good an idea... if this work is important to you, you may want to put it aside for later and concentrate on writing for those near you in age for the time being...
write about what you know from experience and you'll have a better chance for publishing success... you can always go back to this one later, when you've gained some first-hand knowledge of what adults will buy and read...
love and hugs, maia
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I agree. Or at least, wait until late teens.
I am 17 now and I think my writing is as good as it's going to get in the near future. But I started my book some 10 months+ ago, and when I came to re-read, I just threw out the earlier sections, because that's how far my writing has come on in that time.
It seems that the more recent stuff I can't seem to improve massively, so I think my writing growth spurt has finally stopped.
But seriously, at your age (my age?) you will notice a difference in ability as time passes.
It's true (from experience) that in our teens, at least earlier teens, we are not the writers we will become. But we have more imagination.
At 10,000 words, I would say use it as an outline. There really isn't any market for it.
I'm trying to raise my Young Adult novel which has been a long time in coming, to 40,000 words, and I think it will make it naturally after the second draft. But this relatively low wordcount I am happy with because I
KNOW my writing style misses a lot of characterisation and physical description. I think this is better for my market, or it is at least my chosen style. It makes things happen faster, and my priorities are just different.
I got a little off topic, but the point is: a) No matter how we feel at the time, we aren't the writers we will become. b) 10,000 is too short to realistically stretch to a novel. You might do well to use it as a practice story, or as an outline. But you're not going to get it up to a novel wordcount without basically rewriting it, or at least some serious padding and redrafting.
