by Brooke Hemingway, Age 12, USA Find out how to participate in the Polly Fanfiction Challenge. How I Became a Vampire Gone, gone, gone. The thought pounded in my head as I sprang off the stone wall of my house and dashed for the forest that backed up the yard. My heart pumped, every...
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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Four Good Reasons to Write Nonfiction
by Hannah Brown, jaBlog! Blogger Artwork by Lucy Zhang There are two broad types of writing out there: fiction and nonfiction. Although you might be more interested in the fiction side of things (for the sake of the argument, I’m counting poetry in the fiction category, although some people do put it into the...
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Formatting a Fiction Manuscript: Creativity versus Rules and Submission Guidelines
by Mia Martins, Blogger & Drama Co-editor for jaBlog! When writing fiction, I always try to get in the mood that I want my story to reflect. To do this, I attempt to recreate the atmosphere of my story by changing elements of my writing environment. For example, I change the font I’m writing my...
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