Gracie

@Dragon-Snapper yeah, yeah. *rolls eyes*

@kate-flournoy *stops snickering*
*bursts into uncontrollable laughter*
Dragon Snapper will never stop laughing. XD

@SeekJustice hey, everyone does. No biggie. 😛 I will be the first to confess that my name is cumbersome. 😉 In retrospect, I probably should have made my tag just @Kate, but oh well. (@Daeus @Rolena-Hatfield actually is there any way I can change it?)

Great question. You’ve got a lot of good answers here already, but I’ll just add my two cents…[Read more]

@seekjustice I see your problem—I’m also in the same boat. I’m writing a children’s book that has an adult protagonist. According to the 2016 Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market Guide, it is good to have your protagonist be on the oldest side your readership will allow (they recommend not going above college age for YA).

So if you can…[Read more]

Well, the tagging thing’s not working. Anyhow, I found out about kingdom pen as soon as Daeus did, but he wouldn’t let me join until I became a ‘teenager.’ (We’re not allowed to be teenagers in our house so I say that word with cringement and apostrophes.) Therefore almost as soon as I turned 13, I jumped on here. I am (kind of) writing a…[Read more]

@anonymous 13 and a half. You?

@gh24682468999 –

Welcome to Kingdom Pen!! I think it’s so fascinating that you’re a missionary kid and are attending an international school. How neat! 🙂 I’m glad you’re here!

@seekjustice
Great question!
First, let me try to think up a reasonable response…
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Personally, I love it when the character is exactly my age, but because YA is such a broad age group, that rarely happens. From 12-18, it’s hard to find a happy medium for everyone in an age group.
So.
As far as I know, the characters I’ve read in YA have…[Read more]

@seekjustice – This is a great question and something I’m not very knowledgeable about, but I will share a little bit just of what I’ve experienced: There’s this one book that I’ve read about 3 times. The first time I read it, the WIP was a little younger than me, but I still got a ton out of the book. The second time I read it, I realized he was…[Read more]

@graciegirl You still here?

No comment. @daeus

Good idea. @epicaddie2

Well, here’s a thought. Some trees are more than 100 years old. That means they’ve “seen” a lot of stuff–a lot of historical events, a lot of people, a lot of change. Anyone (or anything) who’s seen stuff like that deserves to have their story told.

@epicaddie2

Anyone out there? I may or may not be editing until 8:30.

@graciegirl @jane-maree @epicaddie2 @shannon @dragon-snapper

Alright. 🙂 @kate-flournoy

@That_Writer_Girl_99 unfortunately just leaving. :/

@kate-flournoy You there? Google doc?

I don’t think this idea would work for a full length book, however, if you wanted to make it into a short story or a poem, that would be cool. @epicaddie2

@Northerner welp, I’m entering that contest too so I’m afraid that disqualifies me. Good luck though. 😉