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PAGE A10, KEIZERTIMES, NOVEMBER 9, 2018 Ready for a new adventure? Write one By ERIC A. HOWALD Of No Adults Allowed Around this time of year, a bunch of crazy adults all around the world get the idea that they are going to write a whole book in a single month. Don’t laugh, some of them actually do it. But, that doesn’t mean kids can’t join in the fun. Believe it or not, writing can actually be fun. Where else, other than your imagination, can you travel to lands where dragons exist, be the captain of your own pirate ship or explore an actual haunted house? You probably already have hundreds of stories you know by heart, so let’s get started. Also, don’t worry about writing a whole chapter book this month, write (or draw) a picture book for your younger brothers or sisters or younger cousins. The idea behind Na- tional Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is to start writ- ing as much as it is to fi nish a whole book. Let’s get started! Decide what kind of book you want to write. It is science fi ction? High seas adventure? A detective story? Fantasy with trolls and dragons? This is your book, you get to set it wherever you want and you can combine any idea you can think of. found the right face? Think of an outline as a series of questions you have to answer. Write down the questions and fi ll in the answers. The best part is there are no wrong answers to the questions, just make the answers as detailed as possible. the feelings that they have most often and their favorite things. Decide who you are writing the book for. Sometimes the easiest things to do are the things we do for other people. You can always write a book for yourself, but if you try writing for other peo- ple it’s usually a bit easier. If you are writing your book for your brother or sister, or even your mom and dad, what message do you want them to take away from the book? Is it a message of love and kindness, or what it means to be a good person? Maybe there is a specifi c lesson you want to teach your readers. If you fi gure this out, the story of your book will easier to tell. Make an outline. Let’s say you want to tell the story of that nose looking for a face to call home. We know that everyone is born with a nose, right? Well, that’s not the case with this story. Noses have to come from somewhere else. Where do they come from? How do noses fi nd their fac- es? Do they sniff them out? Do they try on a bunch of faces before fi nding the right one? How do noses know they Write. Write. WRITE! If you’ve gone through all the other steps, this one is easi- er than it sounds. As a matter of fact, if you’ve answered all your outline questions, you’ve writ- ten most of your story already. All you have to do now is con- nect one scene to the next with a few more words. For example: Maybe nos- es grow on trees and, when they are ready, they drop to the ground and grow legs they use to fi nd their face. That be- comes: Ned the Nose was feel- ing ripe when he fell from the tree in the nose orchard. After a few minutes on the ground, he felt legs sprout from his nos- trils and decided to take a walk. He walked out of the fence around the orchard and to a farm where he found a noseless boy playing in the mud. Ned hopped on the boy’s knee, then up onto his face. The boy took a deep breath and … PhewWee. Ned knew he hadn’t found the right face. Even something that sim- ple and silly is a great start. Just keep going until your hero completes their mission. Congratulations! You just wrote a book. Now go read it to (or with) someone. Alicia Self cut the ribbon on her new business, Sunstone Design Studio, at 3733 Cherry Ave. NE on Tuesday, Oct. 30, as part of a Keizer Chamber of Commerce Greeters event. KEIZERTIMES/ Lyndon A. Zaitz traffi c court NO LICENSE OTHER Jairo Lemus Magumen, $245; Julia Ramirez Duenas, $250. 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