Teens Writing for Teens, the 5th

Hey Elysium and Lisa and...Allaboutwords?

Westlife are guilty pleasures really. Was listening to their version of Uptown Girl yesterday...soo cheesy yet somehow awesome at the same time

Just call me Kat, everyone else does and yeah.. they are so cheesy. lol

Hey Alouette! Welcome (back)!

Lisa - No, I'm still planning TL.

How are you doing with it?

I was just trying to figure out how the internal/external conflicts for each of my characters would intertwine throughout the book so I can wing it accordingly. Figured it out for my FMC and now I have to do my MMC.

Okay, Kat! Hello, Karla

It always amazes me how people are able to plan like that. I've tried so many times but I just can't do more than a list of rough bullet points, if that. I think I write better when I wing it but I always hit a brick wall so...

I already know Prudence's internal conflict, but I don't know her external conflict yet (TMB)

I know what they are for both Stephan and Isaac (Sticks and Stones).

Twifties! *tacklehugs*
Hey
Sorry I've been totally absent these past few weeks. I've been busy with school and babysitting (sadly I haven't done much writing). So, what's new with you all? Any agent/deal/finishing a ms/etc. news?

Hi Alouette, I'm Zoe!

I recently changed my external conflicts, so I started a rewrite. I figured out how my FMC's conflicts intertwine, and it's pretty cool. Now on to my MMC's. Both of theirs is difficult to figure out...I got how my MMC's conflicts intertwine in Act1 down and an idea for the middle, but I need to fill in the beginning of Act 2 and the end, and Act 3 too. Though Act 3 will be sorta easy to figure out. It's Act 2 that might be tough.

If I wasn't so self-concious, I would use my recording to keep track of ideas...

ZOE!!!

LISA! How're you?

I'm good.

Hoping to query CCW soon and started a side project yesterday.

Cool! What's the side project about?
Also, you're writing picture books? Yay! How does one query a picture book? It's always been really foreign to me.

Hi Zoe!

Picture book, that sounds fun. Are you doing the illustrations yourself or hiring someone? I've always wondered how the picture book industry worked.

I need a name for my main character's school, something prestigious and preppy, but I can't think of anything.

I'm just querying the manuscript.

TMB is about a girl, Prudence, and her over a year. She's coping with her best friend's, Daniel, death, who she'd fallen in love with. It's written in a journal format.

Mayfield Academy
Bancrofts Academy
Anything Academy just screams prestigious to me.

Haha, thanks Alouette. I like Mayfield Academy.

I just finished the first journal entry in TMB.

No problem!

Sometimes, I think homework was created as a torture device. Anyways, hi everyone!

I always hit a wall with my writing. It sucks.

Missus Akasha said:

Sometimes, I think homework was created as a torture device. Anyways, hi everyone!

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It definitely was.

Allaboutwords13 said:

I always hit a wall with my writing. It sucks.

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I know the feeling!

I always hit a wall with my writing. It sucks.

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Smash it with a hammer!

Also, Akasha, once again your avatar and its log line impresses me.

Hi, CIW.