r/AspiringTeenAuthors

My time is GMT+12 and I am looking for some fellow teen writers to be friends with I'm on the discord servers that were linked here but every time I go to talk someone will start a small convo then its over within a minute, my own server is pretty dead, I was thinking maybe its because everyone is still in school and summer is around the corner. I get bored and I want someone to share with and talk characters and how we came up with them and their backstory.

If anyone wants to be my friend let me know, I'm pretty chill, I write adventure, murder mystery, fantasy like magic, some slow burn romance its the only romance I write as I don't love others like dark romance cause their not my cup of tea.

I also make playlists based on my characters and their story and personality. I also have pinterest boards for them.

I was thinking of writing a story where the main character jumps to her death in the first part, and her last words are “I’m sorry.” The best friend is there and with tears in her eyes, she begged her to stay, yet the MC is like hey gurl I love you but no fucking way. That would be the first chapter. Then like the immediate aftermath. It’d be 3rd POV or MC pov.

Then the rest of the book would be from different people’s perspective, some who know her, some who have just seen her, and exploring the impact she had.

It’s a story more about mental health so no romance. There will be many different perspectives, but it will revisit the best friend, and a ‘rival’ who saw the MC as a competitor as she always got top in the exams or something.

I think someone would be more vulnerable with their best friend so I’d like the best friend to know there was something wrong. They didn’t act on it though as they thought the MC could handle it if they really needed help. MC would also seem perfect to people who didn’t really know her well. I think the best friend would feel extremely guilty and her mental state will decline as a result of the MC’s suicide. Perhaps they’ll commit self harm and at the end of the book, they’ll also jump. If she jumps, I think I want it to kinda be like the first chapter, except the best friend apologises to no one, unlike how the MC apologised to her.

I kinda wanna portray it as a critique to society. About how people are struggling but no one tries to help. About how poor mental health awareness is. About how people think depression is just someone being sad for a long time and that it’s obvious while there are actually a lot of people suffering silently in the shadows.

What do you think? Would you read something like this?

Haiii! I’m looking for people I could actually talk to, bc my irl friends r not interested 😂😂😂😭😭. Anyway, I really love creating stories and characters, also drawing, so if there’s anyone here who wants to share their ideas, or just talk, im hereeeee✨✨✨✨

I'm a mod on this sub and I'm planning to do a summer writing challenge now that summers starting.

Though it will take place on Discord, if you aren't allowed to have that for some reason you can still participate with different ways with the specifics I will tell you.

There will be prizes! (There might be... It can't be anything monetary but I'll discuss something.)

If you are interested let me know below! We haven't exactly decided what this writing challenge will be so you can definetely put in your own opinions and they will be looked at.

Hey! I’m looking for a writing buddy, and I’m hoping to find someone interested in a more casual, friendship-style partnership. Preferably someone to swap critique with, help brainstorm, motivate each other, and just generally yap about writing and random things.

If you’d be interested, feel free to message me. Thank you!

Hiiii… for context I’m trying to write my first book ( keyword: trying ) but while I was developing the plot, I realized that the story doesn’t work without horror elements in it. I’m not really a fan of horror as a genre in most cases and genuinely have no idea how to make something scary without scary music. I know a good place to start is by consuming more of the medium and I am going to try but I was hoping people who are more familiar with the genre could give me some tips.

Also, if anyone has any recommendations for horrors I should read/watch in order to prepare that would be appreciated. For context, I don’t like it for a few reasons, I get scared easily, the plot tends to be slow and the characters aren’t typically compelling. I did enjoy “It”, “Us” and “Companion” tho. Ofc I understand that I’ll just have to deal with the being scared easily thing but I’d appreciate recommendations with compelling characters and faster paced plots.

The horror isn’t the main aspect or genre of my book but it is necessary I believe. Any advice is appreciated! Have a good day!

I am jealous of talented young writers. I am jealous of the recognition you receive from those with authority. I also resent myself for losing all ability to appreciate other writers’ words the moment I catch a glimpse of their outward success. Witnessing the writing of various peers every day, I either feel clever and accomplished, or mediocre and defeated.
So what conclusion has this long-standing contradiction reached? Nothing has changed. Recognition, whether from authority or from myself, has yet to arrive.
They are like carriages. The carriage lingers in some fairytale distance, just out of reach. The carriage stands there smiling. The carriage has no intention of coming to my side.

But what I hate most is the truly gifted. They render my carefully constructed metaphors unnecessary jokes—because with a single feeling, a single stroke of the pen, they produce a row of beautiful images that can only be felt, never spoken.
So this is what a real writer looks like. Innate ability. Every peer I have ever witnessed, compared to him, is nothing more than an ordinary person who can string a few words together. And that small shred of “talent” I once took pride in is now nothing but a bloody, pitiful wreck.
He is so utterly beyond reach—not like a giant hand pressing down on me, because he carries no physical weight at all. He is not the fairytale carriage either, for at least the carriage might still be on its way. He is a mountain from myth. A mountain passed down through countless mouths, yet seen by no one. Legend says it represents writing itself. Around the mountain, beyond the drifting mist, there is not a single living soul—truly, not a bird in flight for a thousand mountains, not a footprint on ten thousand paths.
One day I finally glimpsed the shadow of that mountain,
and then I simply ceased to exist where I had been standing. Every trace of my presence on this earth was uprooted and hurled into outer space.
I hate that mountain. I hate that you finally made me understand my own smallness. I hate that you turned my arrogance into shame. I hate that I hate you this much—and you will never know any of it: all my wretched hatred, and that fear of mine which has long since moved beyond jealousy entirely.
Writing is clearly my only skill that might have any connection to talent. And yet even my highest point amounts to nothing more than this—the mountain cannot see me, because I am merely an ant a thousand miles away.
So I can only give up, furious as I am. I can only wish you brilliance in everything that lies ahead. May your mountain range stand tall forever.
May you never encounter a true “genius”
the way I encountered you.

I recently started my first book, and I finished my prologue, and it seems more of a short story. I really need to add that stuff in the prologue to explain why the fantasy world is in the situation it is. Or should I just scrap the prologue and try to just implement that backstory somewhere in the story?

This may be a dumb question I’m just a little worried because I don’t really know how to market a fantasy series that’s got basically no romance. Every fantasy I see recently is either mainly a romance or has a big romance b-plot. I don’t wanna sound like I’m looking down on that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with romance, but it’s just not really what I enjoy writing most of the time and I don’t wanna add it just to gain more readers. My main character is aroace, and the relationships that are focused on the most are the platonic or familial ones between them and the people traveling with them. There is one who’s married but his husband isn’t around much, and there is a couple but them being a couple isn’t super important, especially in the first book. One of the later books has a couple small romances between members of the party and less major characters, but there’s no strong, overarching, developing romance b-plot and I worry that’s gonna affect how many people want to read it. I know there’s a huge market for that stuff I just don’t really want to write it, I like focusing more on the fantasy world and the characters’ development. I don’t know if what I’m writing will appeal to people and I am shallow enough to care at least a little about that.

Just published my first book: https://amzn.in/d/0f8oQSC3

It's called Apocalyptic: Back in there.

If you're looking for something that'll keep you hooked till 2AM, this is the one.

I started working on it when I was 15, I'm 16 now.

Give it a chance please :)

Every time I write, I end up packing tons into one chapter and having a short story overall. Whenever I read books, a lot less happens in the same amount of time giving accurate pacing, and I just can't figure out how they do it.

Hello everyone! So, I’m at least trying to write a book, it’s about super soldiers and a dystopian empire and allat, it’s also set in the year 3030 so there is gonna be some sci fi. One of the sci fi things I wanted to have was this thing I’m calling Healing Light, here’s how it works:

The main way this light is emitted is via a thin white cylinder, think if a lightsaber handle was pitch white and around 15 inches long. How it works is one side (the part that faces the patient aka the bottom of it) of the cylinder, past the roughly 5 inch handle, instead of being pitch white, shows a smaller cylinder inside that emits the light.

How it works I’m not fully sure yet, but the concept is that it has been figured out how to make light speed healing up drastically, like, to the point it can reconstruct organs, bone, nerves and almost anything in under a minute depending on the severity.

There are however a few caveats:

The first and main one is the rapid healing is met with EXTREME pain. Like, 11/10 on ANYONE’s pain meter. This is because of how fast your body is healing and reconstructing itself that it just hurts a lot.

The second is that, for the light to properly heal the injury, there can’t be anything between the light and the patient, so any clothing or armor should be taken off. If, for example, you’re just wearing a t shirt the light does still work, it’s just weakened because part of the healing is done by your skin absorbing the light like it does for uv/sunlight.

The third is that it’s not a cure-everything like stims in COD and Helldivers. Instead it’s more so a boost to why your body can already do. So for example, if your forearm is snapped in half and your wrist and hand are hanging at a 90 degree angle bc it’s broken, the light will not snap your arm back in place, instead it’ll just heal the limb like that. The bone would need a splint or to be set or held in the right spot for it to heal right. It also can reconnect severed limbs.

The fourth and probably final caveat is that you need to still have a pulse, Healing Light can’t revive people, however, as long as you still have a pulse and blood is running through you, it can heal fatal injuries. Just not decapitation.

One other thing, this isn’t a caveat, is that, since the light is simple speeding up your healing, you still get scars and stuff like that.

One thing I was thinking of having is that if you have a severed limb you need to stop the bleeding first before the limb can be reattached. Now that I think of it, though, if the blood flow is stopped, your body can’t send healing stuff to the injury site, so I’m not sure about that.

That’s about all I can remember off the top of my head. If you’re reading this, thank you for reading my entire rant. Please give me your honest opinion on whether or not this only seems plausible, but that the caveats make sense in the comments. Have a great day and don’t get kebabed!

Like who would be the fan favorite, who’s the least favorite, what type of people relate to certain characters. Fan art, and so much more.

i think about this all the time and I hope one day I get to that point where I publish (my current story is about a fallen goddess and her knight trying to reclaim her position, while my other main story is a dystopian fantasy about the abuse of smaller groups in society). Like who would be shipped with who, what are people’s head cannons.

What do you think your fandom would be like?

Basically, I come up with really really nice plot ideas and fantasy world ideas, but here's the catch, I don't have the commitment to write a book? Honestly I do wanna write a book, even if it doesn't get published, but im kinda stuck on the whens and hows. Please tell me how you all busy teen authors manage your time and write stuff.

Also ive gotten feedback on my writing from a cousin who's a published author, and he does say that my writing has potential, so i would ABSOLUTELY love to write a book.

I want to write about two twins who are in rival gangs but they don't know and one of them (Cain) murders the other (Abel) in a fight at night when they're all masked and he doesn't realise its his brother. I know Cain murdered his brother Abel in the bible, and idk whether if I named the brothers in my book that if it would be too obvious one of them is going to kill the other. Any advice would be rly helpful thanks.