Posts by ShadoCat
Don't cut down, restart from scratch and build up. You've already done the major work. So, write a summary for your 3000 word document. Summarize the 3 most important points that you want someon...
Mainly ask yourself what will draw someone to buy this book. Sometimes it is a famous name, sometimes it is a genre, sometimes it is a theme (first contact, combat with aliens, giant thinking tank...
Use the actual text that you gave in the question in your story. You can either use it whole and then let the kids react to the event after the fact or you can break it up and show the kids' react...
There is nothing wrong with using common names for characters unless you over use them. If everyone has the most common names for their region, the readers may start paying attention to that inste...
