With tween and teen writing tips, you can become a writer today.
What tween and teen writing tips do you need to begin? Try these:
- an active mind
- a block of time
- discipline
- an idea or two
- some tools.
Letâs start with the tools.
A very basic tween and teen writing tip are to Buy a writer’s notebook. Itâs bound, large, with plenty of space per page. Avoid the spiral binder kind of paper holder (You donât want to lose your precious pages, do you? Nooooo.). Buy your notebook at a âdollarâ store, or go fancy and buy one at a stationery store.
Alright, you have a notebook. Now what? Another tween and teen writing tip is to Write. Write about what? Anything and everything thatâs important to you. Help needed? Try these topics:
sports, pets, friends, family members, relatives, important people, interests, hobbies, imaginings, worries, concerns, fears, annoyances, hopes, love, and friendship.
Another tween and teen writing tip is Write every day. A few sentences will do to get you started. Keep on. Each day a little more. Or if you canât think of anything to write, try something WEIRDO:
Write over and over: I canât think of anything to write today. Why does this help? âCause sometimes writing that sentence frees you up, like a warm-up before you jump into a sport. And before you know it, youâre sprinting ⌠through ideas. GET IT?
Another tween and teen writing tip is to Decorate your writerâs notebook. Decals, drawings, wild lettering, photographs, cut-paper collages, and so on and on. LET THE DECORATIONS REFLECT Y-O-U. Special you. The special writer you. Unique you.
Another tween and teen writing tip is Use a special pen or pencil. Many writers, I know, myself included, must have that special pen or pencil. Canât write by hand without it. Freak out if it canât be found. Jitters, oh, if the lead or ink runs out. Soooo, become a friend with your very special writing instrument. Maybe youâll choose to use it only for the writing you do in your notebook âcause itâs that special. Maybe itâll only be for your notebook entries âŚor ⌠a pen or pencil for your JOURNAL entries.
What journal? It’s the other ‘cheapo’ or ‘expensivo’ bound notebook you bought the other day, Youâre gonna spend some time daily writing in your journal. Too much? â- Okay, then every other day. Take a few minutes to write your observations and feelings. Observations and feelings that day, the day beforeâŚthe here and now stuff happening in your life. Good, bad, neutral stuff. Some writers and teachers of writing like to call this a âdiary.â Whatever. Observations and feelings. And this might happen: Stuff you write here becomes the ideas you chase into your writerâs notebook. Get it?
Let your writing journey begin. Good luck.