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[RubyRoo]

OK I'm new and dont know much about you guys so if I'm being an annoying little newbie tell me and I'll stop but as a teenager (13) who writes a lot and reads a lot more I dont mind telling peeps if there is anyting you wanna know about what appeals to my age group cause NOM but most people on writing forums like this who are trying to write for kids are just laughable.

[luv2writestuff]

I think that's a very nice offer. I'd love for you to share what types of things YOU like to read about! Mysteries, adventure, sci-fic, etc. I belong to an online critique group formed from another forum and a few of them are published authors, others are beginning authors, so thoughts from someone that is the age of their characters in their stories might be quite helpful!

Just out of curiosity ... what's your favorite book?

Thanks again, that is a very kind gesture to share with other writers!

Blessings,
Debbie

[RubyRoo]

I'm really bad at the moment! I'm rereading my favourite books from ages ago because the new book in the series is out and the author just sent me a signed copy to see whether I liked it.(I so did;it was really good...it is The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence new book being The Fugitive from Corinth).
I love The Coram Boy By Jamila Gavin, modern classic wise I'm into Orwell and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (brilliantly British that I am!).
My writing style is more towards Pullman and I am a sucker for the kind of endings other people I know hate ie ones that really get to you, I cry a lot at the end of those books, where they bring back a repeated thing in the book and turn it into a kind of really sad good bye or ending. I did that in the short story I posted up the other day 'The Outsider' and was well pleased with my self, though I dont think it will make anyone cry! :D

[Bufty]

Welcome. :hi:

I'll nip over and have a peek at your stuff after I've eaten my supper, RubyRoo, but at first glance it looks pretty darned good to me. You have a super imagination and a great vocabulary and way of painting vivid pictures.

Tell you what, RubyRoo, I need some of your help, so I'll have a crack at critting your stuff, and you tell me what you think of my rubbish - I'm an old Scottish git, by the way.

Here's a link to the short first section to save you hunting -

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=287644#post287644

Seeya later,

Bufty


I'm really bad at the moment! I'm rereading my favourite books from ages ago because the new book in the series is out and the author just sent me a signed copy to see whether I liked it.(I so did;it was really good...it is The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence new book being The Fugitive from Corinth).
I love The Coram Boy By Jamila Gavin, modern classic wise I'm into Orwell and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (brilliantly British that I am!).
My writing style is more towards Pullman and I am a sucker for the kind of endings other people I know hate ie ones that really get to you, I cry a lot at the end of those books, where they bring back a repeated thing in the book and turn it into a kind of really sad good bye or ending. I did that in the short story I posted up the other day 'The Outsider' and was well pleased with my self, though I dont think it will make anyone cry! :D

[RubyRoo]

Lolz! Thanks, old scottish gits rock! :Guitar:

[RubyRoo]

http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20212



Thats where I'll shuv my stuff if you wanna read it.

[Bufty]

:banana: http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20212
Thats where I'll shuv my stuff if you wanna read it.

Been there - done that.:Clap: