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.
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Decide who your
characters are.
This is where your book
really gets going. Maybe your
main character is a troll fi guring
out where all the food went on
a ship traveling to a new world.
Heck, you can write about a
nose looking for a face to call
home. For the most part, you
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