Teens Writing for Teens, the 5th

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I'm having a slight realism issue with the idea that the protagonist is such a successful writer that he needs security guards to stop fans mobbing him at a launch party. JK Rowling has sold half a billion copies and even she isn't that popular.
 

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Hey, MR. Just wondering, but are you on the older end or younger end of being a teen? It would be nice to finally have a replacement for being the baby of the group! :D
 

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Lilly, how old are you?

I thought I was the baby! Or... at least I was when I joined.


Motion City Soundtrack is coming here this month and if I don't get to see them, I will most likely cry. I haven't been to a concert in 4 years.
 

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Middle end of teen. And yes this author is J.K. Rowling famous. He has a series as succesful as HP. Is the bodyguards overdoing it? I put them in for a sick-minded joke later on... but it is fiction. Is the writing itself bearable?
 

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Yeah. I have a tendency to exaggerate things...
 

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That's what I'm saying - even the billionaire author of the most phenomenally successful series of all time is less famous than your protagonist. That's going to be a hard sell.

This isn't really the place for detailed critiques. Once you have 50 posts you can post in Share Your Work.
 

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I know. I'll change it later on. I kinda thought that Rowling would have a bodyguard in her Deathly Hallows premier. She didn't, really? News to me. Then again, it was just an assumption.
 

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Okay, Lilly, I may have lied about being mid-teen. I'm kinda reluctant about telling my age. You aren't the youngest. I'm actually 13! That'll explain the exaggerated statements.
 

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Whew. Bye-bye group baby. Hello new group baby! :)
So is this your first novel length WIP?
 

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I feel like an old fart all the sudden, haha. *is 18* Dx *will be 19 in November*

I should go work on my novel. Even though I'm sick of doing character development and outline stuff.
 

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I'd prefer not to be called "group baby" and I already completed a novel; it was 76,000 words and I have queried a few agents. This is my second novel and what I posted there was the first two paragraphs of it; I wrote it five minutes before publishing it and I am in love with the idea of the book. I'll tell you more about it later on... Wouldn't it be cool to be published at 13, though I am dubious that that will happen.
 

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I know, it's worth a shot. You have never queried an agent? I plan to self-pub, though, maybe get some good sales so it would look gould on a query letter for the next book...
What type of books do you write, Lilly?
 

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Just gotta another, but it was from an agent that I didn't see much of a chance with. I still have one out there that I'm pretty confident about.
 

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Man, I'm so envious of you two. When I was 13, I wasn't' writing much since my teacher pretty much destroyed my confidence and my safety net. It took me until I was about...16 to really gain back a microscopic bit of my confidence to start writing again. o_O I didn't write at all from ages 12-16. T_T and i'm kicking myself for it.
 

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I know, it's worth a shot. You have never queried an agent? I plan to self-pub, though, maybe get some good sales so it would look gould on a query letter for the next book...
What type of books do you write, Lilly?

You would have to sell very well in order to be able to even mention self-published books in a query letter.

P.S. From what I know about people looking down on teen writers, being a teen author is not all it's cracked up to be. Even if you are a great writer, it can be difficult to shed the "child star" and "teens can't write" mindsets.
 

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I know the fact that I'm a teen doesn't seem to be helping me but I refrain from telling agents my exact age in queries unless they are interested. So is it worth not mentioning self-pub in the future unless my book sells as well as Amanda Hocking's do?
 

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Don't even mention that you're a teen in queries unless the agent specifically says "If you are a teen, mention your age in the query." With all the agent's I've queried, I've only known one that ever said that and he's no longer in the business.

*googles Amanda Hocking* For every self-pubbed author like her, there are hundreds or thousands more that will never have their self-pubbed books picked up by a traditional publisher.
 
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