Old People Writing for Teens, IV

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Okay, I got to 1423. Stoked! Off to the pool now. Can't wait to dig back in tonight. I LOVE LOVE LOVE writing intense action scenes.
 

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I'm currently outlining an intense action scene. How i love them!
 

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Yeah, with that Kim think about the age of your character and what they are doing. .

Thanks I will actually probably post part 1 of chapter 1 soon in SYW to get opinions. The characters in a relationship are 13 and 12. I have changed the ages around before, and at one point the oldest character was 15. And so I'm toying with the idea of going ahead and moving all of the characters up, and the final ages of the Main Group would be 15, 13/14, 12, 11, and the 8 year old might stay the same. I want to make sure I'm being true to the story before I change the ages permanently.
 

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I might submit a short MG to the contest AW is holding...
 

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I might submit a short MG to the contest AW is holding...

You totally should!

The announcement has been updated, by the way. The prizes are even more awesome now. First place gets a $50 gift certificate and several books. Second place gets a $25 gift certificate. Third place gets a $15 gift certificate.

Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. :D
 

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Hi all. I've had a rough couple days writing wise! Only about 1800 words. That's since Sunday night. I'm a little stuck right now. My MC is at a fork in the road emotionally. She wants to be by herself b/c she thinks she's dragging others down (her youngest sister just od'd and MC is convinced its her fault) but she doesn't want to leave her other sister/love intrest/foster mother. I don't know how to write her right now! She's conflicted, and I want to get that down without her seeming needy and whiny. Aaargh!
 

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only 1K today so far... just so unmotivated... dont really know what to do to cure this right now.
 

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dudes? what is this one post a day $hit? :D

where all my OPs at?

ETA: wow, I don't know where the hoagie folkies came from. srsly. i need sleep. BIG TIME.
 
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dudes? what is this one post a day $hit? :D

where all my OPs at?

ETA: wow, I don't know where the hoagie folkies came from. srsly. i need sleep. BIG TIME.

Hey I posted double here during the day for a month... no one was ever here to respond. Pixy is gone, and Moni moved and decided to live on Twitter rather than be here...

So don't blame me. You can look back. It was dead for weeks before I decided to hang around else where.
 

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Case in point right here. No one has posted since I left yesterday. :(
 

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No I meant this morning... Not last night. Your 7:30am in my 4am... etc...

And I was also trying to point out that Netz and NG, and everyone else who used to move the thread has just kind of vanished here.
 

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And I'm on the East coast of the states. so hard to all be her at the same time i guess :(
 

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Yep. :)

Plus I think peeps are just posting elsewhere on AW. Or on Twitter. *shrug*
 

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not me. i'm only the occasional twiterer and don't really spend much time outside of the YA forum. Though I did recently visit the SYW thread and did a small crit. Had been forever since I did that. It was fun, but I haven't yet gotten a response from the poster. Maybe I scared him/her? :)
 

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I am all over on AW. No Twitter, and I cancelled Facebook
 
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