Interview with the amazing author valuables, I would go read her story Trembling Light. Link to story in External Link
1- Tips in writing?
2-How did you become so good?
3-What not to be in a story/What to you like reading in a story ?
4-How long have you been writing?
5-How long does it normally take you to write a story?
6- The inspection for your story came from?
7- Favorite story you've written and why?
8- How to be descriptive?
9-How big do you think your vocabulary is?
10-Why do you write?
11- And most important, what would you say to those new writers out there?
1- To have fun really. When you have a pen and paper, you can write whatever you want. You can write about an alien visiting Paris, or a boy learning to walk in heels, or even a zebra falling in love with a... monkey. I don't know. But it's in your hand, just have fun with it! If you do then writing will be much easier for you.
2-I don't consider myself good, just average, but reading books and googling some things definitely helped me become way better than I was a year ago. There's always something new to learn about writing, you just have to keep an open-mind about it and never be afraid to ask for advice.
3- Wish I could be specific, but just the cliché plots really, there seems to be more of them than originality. Just because it's popular now, it doesn't mean it will be tomorrow.
What I look for in stories is the suspense. I like not knowing what will happen and making my own little endings along the way. It can be teen fiction or fantasy, so long it keeps me on my toes I'm happy.
4-Well, since I learned how to hold a pencil, but I started to get serious about it two years ago.
5- I have yet to finished a published story of mine, so I can't give an answer, but I'll have to say about 6-9 months?
6- Mostly from music and tv shows. For example, my book Valuables idea came after I watched a soap opera with my aunt, and then I listened to some songs by Rascal Flatts and the idea just started to develop. They come randomly and ruin my life because then I just have to write it down
7- I'm gonna pick my new one, Trembling Light, it's for July's Camp Nano. With it being fantasy (a genre I have never written before) it makes everything so much exciting to write. Especially when I get to make up characters and creatures of my own, with a little help from google of course.
8-There really isn't an easy way to answer this. Reading published books off e-book has definitely helped me with the process, but it might not be for everyone. I think you should just try and do your best; you'll get better as you write, but you should always try and imagine the scene in your head. Is the grass trimmed or long? Does the colour remind you of a dress you wore, or is it so light that it reminds you of something sad? Ask yourself these questions and hopefully everything will fall in place.
9. Average. Or maybe less than what normal kids my age have. I blame staying out of the UK for three years for that.
10- I have control, and I don't have that a lot in my life, so with writing I get to do what I please with the characters and let my imagination run free really.
11- Don't write because you want to be more popular or because everyone seems to do it, but write because it makes you happy, because you have so many idea and you just want to write it down. Also, always have that passion everyone has somewhere inside of them when it comes to writing. If you have that, and imagination you will go far.
