Hi! I'm Amelia0308! :3

 

 

Hello, everyone! I'm the newest (I think...) author of The Diary of a Writer and Artist! ^-^

My name is Amy Blythe, and I'm the author of a series called Warriors: The Returning Series. Well, actually it's not even a whole book yet... and it's not going to get published every because it's really Erin Hunter's idea, not mine. Anywho... x3

 

Sooo I'm not really sure what to post right now, and I think my computer time is up, but here is one thing I'd like to say:

 

Everyone should try writing a book!!! It's the most amazing feeling in the whole world!!! :D

If you don't know what to write about, just think about it for a while.

Writing a book is like watching a movie in your mind, and then putting what you see onto paper.

That's the best way I know how to explain it. :3 I'm not much for explaining stuff... lol

 

Oh, time's up. Gotta go!

 

Thanks for reading!

 

~Amy Blythe~

 

(p.s. I will make a signature soon... nothing fancy right now sorry XD)

Help Please!

Hello everyone! I have a favour to ask of you all - do you have a good surname for an unpleasant human female character in a story?? It would be great if you could help me in this way! But I'm afraid I can only use one, so if I get more than one suggestion I will have to choose one! Thanks! :)

Story Help (Part 2)

Hello! Here is some more story help, from the depths of my experience. To see Part 1 see post below. 

Ideas:

1.Have a piece of paper or word document for ideas for later on in your story. You can also put a list of all the first and last names you can think of, and maybe place names too. That is always useful. 

2. Quality not quantity. That saying probably annoys you, as it does me, but it's a true one. It doesn't matter how long your story is. You can have it from three to one thousand pages! If you want to write a chapter story, then one hundred to three hundred pages is good, give or take a few. You can also put several stories in one book. You could have loads and loads of short stories in one, or three or so novelettes. 

3. You can write fiction or non-fiction. This is just my opinion, but I find non-fiction (novels, made up) more interesting. But autobiographies (about you/your life) and biographies (about someone else/their life) are also very interesting. 

4. If you are writing a novel, choose whose point of view you are writing it from. You can write it from the author (you)'s point of view, as in putting "It was a bright sunny day and Mary Jordan was cooking" or from the character (in this case, Mary)'s point of view, by writing "It was a bright sunny day and I was cooking". Or from another character's point of view as in "It was a bright sunny day and I was watching Mary Jordan cook". You can write a "diary" by having the main character's entries, with their opinions, etc.  

4. Discuss it. Talk with your friends, family, etc. Why not even write a letter to a published author asking them for advice? If you do that, then choose one who is writing/has written about the same sort of thing as you. 

Ok, hope that was helpful! Thanks for reading, and have a great day!

~Filly

Story Help

Hello readers! Are you a writer? Do you want to be? Need some ideas? Well, here are some anyway. Some of them are more like tips than ideas, but who cares! They are all from my own experience. 

1. Decide what sort of story you want to write. There are many different types. You could write a like-life story about people, at school or home, or a detective one. Or one about witches, or one about animals, or one about animals and magic, one about other worlds, one about mythical creatures... 

2. You may be inspired by someone else's work, but don't copy. For instance, a school for witches is a nice idea. I am writing a story which involves one myself. But you must make everything up for yourself. For instance the name, the names of the school subjects, the houses, the spells... Or you might want to write a story about a clan of animals. That is very popular I find. But you must make things up for yourself. The type of animal - lots of people choose wolves. Remember to call the group a Pack. But you could do horses. A herd. Or foxes, lions, or even underwater animals such as dolphins or sharks. (Pods, the groups are). 

3. Don't make your characters too similar, choose lots of different personalities, and don't give up. You may get a time when you feel you want to, talk about it with someone else, and work through it. You may want to rewrite it, but never give up! It's all yours! 

Hope that helped, and thanks for reading!

~Filly