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Hey, Timothy. Well, a couple other Forum regulars are young writers with hands-on experience using lots of different writing/publishing tools and apps. Their advice would be better than what I can offer—they may chime in if they see your question—but here’s what I know.

Before you decide on how/where to publish, you want to decide what you’re actually trying to accomplish:

> If you want to share a work-in-progress to get feedback and encouragement from other young writers, you can find several communities designed for students. Young Writers Project and Storybird and Write the World are a few of the big ones.

> If you have a finished story or novel that you’d like to post for free so others can read it, Wattpad is super popular with teens.

> The easiest way to see your book in print (or e-print) is to self-publish on Amazon KDP or Barnes & Noble Press—they both let you create a book that looks “real” (as both an e-book and a print-on-demand book). Don’t count on getting rich off of royalties. But if your book is sensationally good, it could get picked up by a commercial publisher. (It’s much more common for adult books—Andy Weir did it with The Martian and Hugh Howey with the Wool/Silo series—but Christopher Paolini’s self-published Eragon is a middle grade/YA success story, so it’s not impossible.)

> If your real dream is to get a traditional publisher to buy your book: Publishing houses all have different rules for accepting manuscript submissions. GRK has shared good advice several times in the Forum so reading lots of previous posts would be a great place to start.