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I want to become a published author...
but I'm almost 12. You have probably heard this before but most kids who say they want to be published can't spell and can't write. Is it possible for a girl to publish a book? If so, how? Thanks, Ally
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I will give you some advice that was given to me when I was younger. The chances you will have something published before you're in your 20s is pretty much zero. The chances you will be proud of something you published before you're in your 20s is pretty much zero.
So instead of worrying about how to get yourself out there, for now just write. Constantly, every chance you get, just write. Write short stories, write poems, write longer stories, write conversations, write whatever you want.
It's entirely possible and normal for girls to publish books, some of my favorite authors are female. But if you want to be an author, don't worry about how to get there right now. Just write, come up with ideas, and let people read some of the stuff you write so they can give you constructive criticism on it.
Last, as a writer you should constantly be looking for what you did wrong. The best advice someone can give you is a perspective on how you could have written something you wrote better. Not because you need to fix whatever someone tells you, but because the more people who tell you what they think about your writing and who tell you how they think you could do better, the more examples you have to draw from of what and how other people think to better your writing for yourself.
These corrections are about content. Content is what you write, grammar and spelling and sentence structure are about how you write it. You want criticism on both, separately. Content criticism is about your ideas and how well you form them, how much you think things out, asking people to find holes in your story or to find questions they have about what happened that you did not think of answering. Structure criticism is just making sure you follow all the rules of writing, and talking about how you phrase a sentence to see if you could have made a better sentence that says the same thing, which is helpful in it's own ways.
A last tip, as boring as this will probably sound get a comprehensive dictionary and sit down and read it. Right now, it won't help much. In 10 years when you've been writing for a long time you will have a much larger vocabulary to access for your writing.
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It is possible for anyone to publish a book, Keep in mind though that if you publish a book it has to have proper grammar unless you have the money to hire an editor which can be very costly. Anyhow if you want to publish a book a great start would be to contact an editor.
I'm not sure if you write poems too but if you do you could also try contacting your local newspaper and get it published there.
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