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It's about a book!!!
I'm in 7th grade and I was thinking of trying to write a book. I want it to kinda be a dairy like dork diaries but I want it to b based of my real dairy. I don't really know how to do that without but their real name without getting confused and I don't want to put to much info because if I let my parents see it I don't want them to know certant stuff. If that sounds to complicated than can I give me an idea on how I could write a normal story or mayb a script. Thanks for the help!!!
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So first... you should put what you write somewhere that isn't easily accessible to your parents, if you're going to keep things from them. Blog sites are great for that. You pick a username, and you make it a private blog.
Blogger, OpenDiary... etc... they're all good for storing your files away from prying eyes.
So second, you have the names issue. That's an easy one. When you're done with your book, there is a feature in Microsoft Word that will go through and change a word to another word. So if your friend is named... Paul... you tell Microsoft word to change Paul to Joe or whatever. Easy peasy.
As for other stories... no one can tell you how to write a story. You either write what you know or you have to find the imagination to create a story that's all your own. Start with what you know, it's easiest. ^_^
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It's a cliched phrase but "write what you know about." If there's something you are passionate about and you want to write about it just write for yourself without needing or want to share it. When you do that your best work comes out. Then maybe you will share it with others.
I'm not familiar with Dork Diaries but I am with the Diary Of a Wimpy Kid films and books where the protagonist more or less narrates them as though it's a diary.
What you would do is start out in first person reflecting on what happened in the past with you and other characters and blend fiction and fact and have each person tell their own story and make it into that type of thing where it's a diary entry but told from different perspectives.
As far as your parents are concerned I believe in NEVER hiding anything that shouldn't be hidden but that you should have privacy for a diary and I'm sure they wouldn't read it. If they did you could tell them that it's fictional and an assignment to write fiction mirrored after those books.
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