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06-07-2008, 03:20 PM
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The Best Advise For A Talented Teen To Get Published!!!
My names is Scott Summerhayes, and I believe that I am a talented writer. I'm very sure that this forum gets this question all the time, but I really must know if anyone has any information for me. I'm sixteen years old, I have a part time job, and I have a dream.
How can I find a way to get published at this age?
Any information would help.
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Thoughts lead onto purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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06-07-2008, 03:23 PM
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Write.
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06-07-2008, 05:27 PM
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You could try self-publishing! 
But if you're serious about this, then your age is irrelevant. The general method for getting published is to submit to a publisher; I doubt not that this will work just as well for a talented teen as it would for a talented adult.
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06-07-2008, 05:42 PM
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First step would be to get somebody other than yourself to believe that you are talented.
Best way to do that is write something really great and show it to them.
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06-07-2008, 06:57 PM
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Write
Revise
Submit
Rage at the heavens over rejection letter
Repeat ad nauseum until the last one doesn't happen.
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06-07-2008, 09:37 PM
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^Best advice ever.  |
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06-08-2008, 08:09 AM
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Learn how to spell 'advice' first. 
Age doesn't matter. What does matter is that people other than yourself, your family and friends think that your writing is of a publishable quality, so find that out first.
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06-08-2008, 06:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lisajane
Learn how to spell 'advice' first. |
That's probably the best advise i've ever got.
and i don't know why that quote will not work.
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Thoughts lead onto purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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Last edited by Summerhaze : 06-08-2008 at 06:54 PM.
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06-08-2008, 06:51 PM
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You need to put a forward slash ("/") after left bracket of the end-quote.
[*/quote]
Take out the asterisk.
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06-08-2008, 06:53 PM
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I've already, obviously posted things on here, and have recieve good comments. I think that i am ready. I think that i sound much better than a bunch of other assholes out there that are published.
So maybe a positive attitude will help.
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Thoughts lead onto purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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06-08-2008, 07:03 PM
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I'd say the best thing that you can do if you want to be published is to forget that you want to be published. When you want something you don't get, it tends to hurt. And it will hurt for the first two hundred rejection slips or so. And to have humility, above all.
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06-08-2008, 07:09 PM
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What are these rejection slips you speak of?
How do even mail shit into a publisher, let alone have them reply?
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Thoughts lead onto purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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06-08-2008, 07:52 PM
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Let me suggest that before you attempt to build your rejection slip collection by submitting to publishers, you try posting some samples for peer review on this site and/or other similar ones?
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06-08-2008, 07:58 PM
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i have trust issues... i don't feel too comfortable posting (what i see as) valuable work on a public site where anyone sould take it.
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Thoughts lead onto purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
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06-08-2008, 09:53 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Summerhaze
i have trust issues... i don't feel too comfortable posting (what i see as) valuable work on a public site where anyone sould take it.
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But that way you'll know if it's good or not! IF you find the work you posted here was stolen, than you know it was good! IF not...well...it wasn't.
Joking aside, why not just use the Writer's Workshop to post your work? That forum is closed to outside visitors of the site, and I don't think the writers who post their work there are fishing for work to steal; they have enough stories of their own...
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