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Hi, Simon,

Congratulations! The first step towards becoming a writer is to set yourself a goal. ENTITY is your goal.

It’s hard for me to help without knowing anything about you or your book. But I can tell you to work on your outline before you do too much writing. And follow your outline plan. You need a plan or your story will be all over the place. If you have problems with the wording, try telling the story as if you were speaking to a friend and describing an event. Some people speak more clearly than they write. And even if it doesn’t work out that way, you’ll at least have your story down on paper, and you’ll be able to revise it to your liking.

Mostly, the trick is to like your own story, and to have faith in it. Remember, the trick to telling a story properly is fixing it so someone else will be interested in reading it. So the best thing I can offer is to wish you good luck and a lot of fun. Writing is work, but it’s also a lot of fun to have something you want to say, and be involved in putting it down on paper.

                                 Enjoy!                                                        —–Gordon Korman—–