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meg_evonne:
Hi AV and welcome!  Wow, you've been given some top notch ideas from fellow writers. The writers here indicated they had trouble writing at your age. There are physical & developmental reasons that they had trouble.

I will share the flip side of writing at an older age, in my case 54.  You rapidly lose the ability to remember what it was like to be 13 or 15 or 20 or 30.  You lose that wide eyed wonder at the world.  The best writers can put their minds back into those ages and write from that point of view, the average try to remember.  Think your Mom can't understand what you are feeling? Well most mom age writers can't remember either!

What I'm saying is, that if you haven't the stamina for a longer work or the concentration skill to nail that perfectly written short story---don't let it stop you from trying.  DO keep a journal and think of it as a story bank.  You'll have a story bank of ideas to last a lifetime at your finger tips.  Best of all, if you save your started but not finished work*, you will find that the voice from youth will shine through so you can recall that very special youth viewpoint!

And for crying out loud, learn what every writer on this board has learned!  BACK UP YOUR WORK,  BACK UP YOUR WORK, BACK UP YOUR WORK.   What seems trite now, might be the next Bradbury by the time you graduate college!


Geez, a footnote?  What am I thinking, but the writers here will back this one up!
*NO MATTER how crappy you think it is when you re-read it in high school or college or 10 years into a successful career--  NEVER delete it,  NEVER.  No matter it's quality, it was honest and it will be invaluable. RESIST THE URGE TO PURGE as the years past.

Murphy's Stunt Double:
hear hear, Meg!  ;D

Ursiel:
EUREKA! I know what I'll write :O but first, I sleep >_>

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