HOW TO WRITE AN AWARD-WINNING TWEEN/EARLY TEEN-ORIENTED BOOK

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Characters:

The protagonist must be a 12 – 16 year old girl. She MUST be poor. She lives in the city. Her mom has to be a starving artist/unemployed/employed in a really shitty low-paying job/mentally ill. Her dad has to be missing/a dickhole/dead. If he comes back at some point in the story, he has to either be a total fuckbag or be a totally awesome guy.

Plot:

Your protagonist starts out living a miserable-ass life in the city. Of course, her mother makes everything better. So does her generic friend which is usually either a loser girl/a male father figure much like the mother that makes up for the girl's lack of a father/some other kind of adult that is artistic and loving and also in a bad financial state. Then some bullshit happens and your character goes through a load of shit, and this is all very traumatizing. Your character will now either turn to her one friend for help or ditch all her friends over a small fight. They will never come back. After this, the protagonist will have a heartwarming family moment. They will then move down to the country and live a nice country life because that's soooooo much better than living in a place where people actually live.

Cover art:

The cover art must be of the protagonist's face at a 3/4 view. The character in the book is beautiful but everyone considers her to be ugly. Your model will probably be like 20. Make sure she has rosy cheeks. Also, she can't have any tits either. Your model will pose against a drab background of either plants or buildings. Your title has to be scrawled across the top in a cheap-ass font. Must look like it could be done in 5 minutes in MS Paint.

CONGRATULATIONS!

If you follow all of these steps, you will have your very own best-selling tween girls' novel!

17 Comments

Vusys 12 November 2009 Reply

At first I like like, “oh god, another all caps spam blog to waste space in the database”. But then I find it’s actually a quality blog.

FunnyFroggy 12 November 2009 Reply

A part of this sounds like ‘The Glass Castle’. 😐

Nass 12 November 2009 Reply

I’m not gonna lie, but I didn’t smile.

David 12 November 2009 Reply
Nass said: I’m not gonna lie, but I didn’t smile.

I’m not gonna lie, but I went O_o when I read your comment.

Pirkid 13 November 2009 Reply

Ehh..it is true.

Gujju 13 November 2009 Reply

teehee

testicular 13 November 2009 Reply
FunnyFroggy said: A part of this sounds like ‘The Glass Castle’. 😐

It also sounds like pretty much every novel I’ve read from my class bookshelf.

testicular 13 November 2009 Reply
Vusys said: At first I like like, “oh god, another all caps spam blog to waste space in the database”. But then I find it’s actually a quality blog.

I could edit this to be a piece of shit capsy thing if you want.

Arladerus 13 November 2009 Reply

Double post fail

darkness 13 November 2009 Reply

Got anything for the male/male teenager protagonist?

testicular 13 November 2009 Reply

Two words.

Fake vampire.

Merovign 13 November 2009 Reply

Another two words, angst-driven scene kid.

Oh wait that was three, BUT I DON’T CARE COS IM ANGSTY AND ALL SO EVERYTHING HATES ME AND I HATE THEM.

Make sure the guy is like that, preferably Caucasian and wears spectacles so he looks ‘average’.

Blackboy0 13 November 2009 Reply

You sir just won 1,000 internets.

FunnyFroggy 13 November 2009 Reply

-thiswasneverhere-

Nass 13 November 2009 Reply
David said:

Nass said: I’m not gonna lie, but I didn’t smile.

I’m not gonna lie, but I went O_o when I read your comment.

y?

dee32693 13 November 2009 Reply

rololololol. i knew there was something good abiout u =O

it’s true!!

Cynthia 14 November 2009 Reply

I would read this book, pretend to look down on it but secretly enjoy <3

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