How to write better

Read. Read read read as much as you can. Read young adult books. Read old adult books. Read kids’ books. Read as many books you can get your hands on. This way you collect words and phrases and you can see how the professionals do it. When you’re done, reread your favorites and even the books you like not as much. Trust me, reading will make things so much easier later on.
It also introduces you to books you might have never read otherwise. You might be recruited into new fandoms along the way. If you read how I’m telling you, writing won’t be The Easiest Thing in the world, but it certainly won’t be The Hardest Thing.

(Some of you might be shaking your heads at advice from a thirteen year old. Please note that I am young, not stupid. I may be younger than some of you, but please don’t judge me for it.)

Great advice! Also, speaking of reading, what are your favorite books?

deep breath
The Divergent series, the Harry Potter series, Lunar Chronicles, the Red Queen series, the Percy Jackson series, the Heroes of Olympus series, Kane Chronicles, the Magnus Chase series, the Trials of Apollo series, ummm idk, doll Bones, the Flavia de Luce series, the Hunger Games series, The Fault in Our Stars, aggghhh my mind is blanking, Fallout, the Missing series, I Am Princess X, Kalahari, The Mark of the Dragonfly, Popular: A Memoir, the Rebel Mechanics series, The War That Saved My Life, The Running Dream, Esperanza Rising, ooh The Door by the Staircase is a good one, the Land of Stories series, the Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series, the Fairy-Tale Detectives, and gosh darn it I can't name them all.

I'll probably think of another book once I'm in bed tonight. And then forget it by the time I wake up.

Thanks (I need more books to read)! Mine is probably The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. No spoilers though, I'm not done with it yet.

Oh my ELA teacher recommended that book! It sounds good.

It is

Cool I'll read it

Hey @Three Ravens is the whole "Three raven" thing because of Divergent? I LOVE Divergent with all of my heart!!!! #fourtris

Yeahh!

Awesome! LOL

@Three Ravens Have you read Anne Ursu's books? They're really good.

No

What are some of them about?

Well, she has written The Kronos Chronicles trilogy, based around Greek Mythology.Breadcrumbs, a take on the Snow Queen fairy tale, and a original book called The Real Boy.
They're well written.

Sounds cool! I'll be sure to check them out

@"Three Ravens" The other thing to do is write write write as much as you can. Locate some better writers than yourself, wherever they are, and get them to read your work and give them feedback. Those two are as much, if not more important than reading. But reading, I can't stress how important that is too.

Also I think as a word count guide you want to have about 20k words before feeback on your writing will, because that's about when you start consolidating your style (although I've estimated my total word count to be ~350k words now? and I'm still rapidly developing my style)

I think I'm going to swing by the library today and pick up the first Percy Jackson book so I can read it lol. I'm 16 and never got around to reading that, or Harry Potter. I don't read as much anymore and I miss it because it helps me escape for a few hours lol.

Don't feel too bad. I'm 17 and just read Harry Potter for the first time.

Yeah I want to read Harry Potter too lol. The only series I've read that are directed to teens and kids are The Mortal Instruments, Divergent, and The Hunger Games. I usually just read lots of Stephen King.

dammit

I have 10537 words on my first book (if you can call it that) and only 3133 on my second but that's because I'm still writing it

That's cool actually, my first book was only about 10k when I stopped writing it. However, I came back to it later and made it not end as soon as it was going to, and added another couple thousand words.

Have you heard of Camp NaNoWriMo? I'll be doing that this April. If you haven't heard of it, you should give it a google.

No, but in November my ELA class participated. That's the one I mentioned with 10537.

My goal for this one is 11700, but I want to make over 12k.

MORE ADVICE:
Write down unknown words somewhere, and look up the definition. REMEMBER TO WRITE DOWN THE DEFINITION OF THE WORD!!! This can help you discover new words!
Another is to NOT GO BACK AND RE-READ ALL THE S**T YOU WROTE! The only reason you think your work is boring is because you've read it a thousand times. Just because you think your story is bad doesn't mean everyone else will!
Editing is usually done AFTER you finish the first draft of the book! The reason this is done is to fix loopholes and plot holes, and editing a chapter after you finish it when the book is not finished and there are other chapters is a bad idea, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ONLY EDIT THAT CHAPTER! THIS CAN CREATE PLOT HOLES, PARADOXES, AND LOOPHOLES GALORE!

Ooh, that's a tough one. Ummmmmmmm Idk

Maybe The Grave's a Fine and Private Place? It's so hard to choose