Writing a Young Adult Novel

Tools for writing a youth novel

“We have finished the course, now it is your turn to write your narrative rundown. Next I am going to review what you need to carry out your final project. Lee Spend a large part of your time reading other authors. Read searching, learning, taking notes from devices. Take notes in your notebooks. Do not lose them, you never know when they will be useful. Always look further with the question Neil Gaiman talks about: What if? Characters Work on your characters. Open the file and fill in its characteristics. Do not complicate yourself too much, what you do not like you can always change. Complete the questions, the facts, the portrait, the biography. Conflict He begins to put together the plot by answering the questions: What, who or whom will the protagonist have to face in order to achieve what he / she wants or obtain what he / she needs? Gets it? How do you get it? Narrator Choose who is going to tell your story by answering the question: Who is telling the story? See how this choice allows you to move forward quickly. Environment To think about the environment, you will have to answer two questions: Where does the novel take place? And what emotion does the environment in which it takes place transmit? These choices will lead you to make decisions that will allow you to move forward with the plot and build the characters better. Time Here you should answer the question: How and in what order do I want to tell my story?

And you already have everything you need to start writing your rundown! Write openly first, don't worry, the time for corrections will come. Now is the time for everything to come out. Organize the chapters, do not go into details, they are ideas to organize yourself. Hold the third person and move on until finished. Lean on your notebook to take auxiliary notes. Once you finish, let the rundown rest for a few days and then go back to it to review everything you think you need to change. Now share your final project by clicking on "Create your project". Don't forget to share the complete narrative rundown (tab and rundown) and if you want, share how the process has been. That will allow us to give you better feedback and it will surely serve others. And if you feel like it, you can share your project with the world with the hashtag #CarolaMartinezDomestika There are thousands of ideas, thousands of ways to look, thousands of ways to write, don't be afraid to share them on the forum. Interact with your colleagues, writers nurture each other, create community, read and support each other. And read, read a lot, watch series, fill your head with stories. You are starting a path that will surely change your life forever. Art changes those of us who are dedicated to it. So never forget: make good art. I await your final work! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We are at the end of the course and I want to thank you for getting here. We talk about the importance of reading, the way we go looking for an idea. We review and revise the history of books for young people, to finally know what a narrative rundown is and what are its ingredients. Later we learned how to build a character, how is the voice of this character and how to put him in a dialogue with the secondary characters to start moving the plot forward and find the conflict in our novel. We look for the best narrator for the novel and what would the atmosphere be like, and we...”

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Course summary for: Writing a Young Adult Novel

• Level: Beginner
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• 2194 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 17m)
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• Category

  Writing

• Areas

  Children's Literature, Communication, Creativity, Narrative, Writing