Sisters!?!? (Short Story)

I followed my best friend Uriah onto the bus. We were taking a field trip to a camp called Heartland. 

There will be some transfers though- I even heard there were some from France and England! I really cannot wait.

Uriah pointed at a seat, "sit here, Renee."
I did that weird army thing and said, "Yes sir!" Then I sat down.Uriah gave me a glare that could kill, literally. I thought I was gonna die. 

About two hours later we were getting off the bus and grabbing all stuff. Then, we went into the girl's cabin and waited to be assigned our cabin-mates. 

"Butterfly cabin will be... Renee Talicato, Uriah Brants, Rai Stani, and Georgia Banks." Mrs. Yanday called out to us four.

The four of us stood up and walked into 'the Butterfly cabin' and chose our bunks. I chose one on the left, at a huge window on the top bunk where I could look out. 

I jumped swiftly off my bunk and went up to a girl, I think her name was Georgia. "Hi! I'm Renee Talicato. Who are you?" 

The girl turned around and blinked, "No, you Rai Stani. Are you feeling okay?" She reached out to touch my forehead as if to check my fever. I pushed her hand away.

"Uh... I am feeling fine. I'm Renee, not Rai." I muttered awkwardly. 

Georgia then grabbed another girl that I presumed to me Rai, and turned her to face me.

Rai and I gasped at the same time. We looked exactly alike!
"You look like me.." Rai whispered, putting her finger-tips on her lips.

"No, you look like me!" I exclaimed. Really, I had absolutely no idea on about what to think about this. 

After dinner Rai climbed into my bed secretly, and we began to whisper fastly.

"Could you be my sister? My twin?" She asked.

I shook my head, "Not possible, Rai. My mother only had one child. At least that is what she says." 

"But, she could be lying," Rai exclaimed. "My father says that too. Maybe we could check this out?"

I nodded my head, "Sisters!?" 

She grinned, "Certainly."

At that point she hopped off my bed and clambered into her's, "G'night.." She whispered.

"G'night."

Pursuing Your Dream To Be A Writer

Being a writer is hard work! What I usually do is use this one site for warm-ups and stuff like that.

Yes, I do fan fiction but I also have two of my own. Both of them I plan on posting onto a different blog. I'll give you links. 

To make sure you post once a day (or if your busier, once a week) make sure that you friends help you. If you don't have a certain site to go to, write one chapter (or more) per day! Family and friends can help you through this.

Make sure you let OTHER PEOPLE read your stories! Using a site really helps for that because it lets strangers read it and actually tell you about what they think about it, they DON'T patronize you hardly. 

If you don't let other people read your stories, then you're not gonna know how good your writing actually is. If you don't let them stay their opinions, then what is the use of writer a story? People are gonna read it anyways. Especially if you send it to get published.

What I did was give copies of my writing to my teachers at school, they WILL read it! Plus, in English (or reading) you could actually write stuff down in a journal during freetime; then give it to your teacher. 

These are a few tips of mine,I'm NOT saying anyone is worse than I am. I'm just doing this for two reasons. I want to work on my writing and see if people actually want to read my stories, and I need to learn how to blog. Or so says my mom.

Starting A Story

I may be only thirteen, but I have some exercises and tips to use while writing.

When I decide to make a new first draft book or warm-up fan fiction, I lay out questions and answers first.

Who: Who is the main character and who are the other secondary character?

What: What is the setting? What do you want your story to be about?

When: When is the time setting? 

Where: Where are the places that my characters are supposed to go?

How: How does everything become like this?

I usually lay that out per chapter or section of the story. Like for instance. In chapter one you sort of want to explain your character. 

Red is who, blue is what, green is when, purple is where, and brown is how. 

My name is Vanilla Icecream. I go to Greensburg Middle school in seventh grade. 

I am thirteen years old and my best friends are Strawberry Topping and Chocolate Shake. They're great! Strawberry has bleach blond hair and sparkling blue eyes, whereas Chocolate has black hair that always gets in his eyes and has very dark brown eyes.

My little sister, Mocha, is eight. She has light brown hair and green eyes. Mocha is also a little model. Very adorable in my opinion. 

Mocha was about five when a talent scout had noticed her cuteness and gave my mother his card for auditions. She decided to agree to that and brought Mocha to the auditions. Now she is America's Beauty Queen. 

The descriptions on looks are what they look like, if you were wondeing. Greensburg Middle School in a place. Vanilla is a person. Do you see where they all came from? If not, ask me questions. 

That's how I usually lay it out though, and then I begin to think about what exactly should be in the chapter in a more descriptive way. 
Ex:
About: Vanilla Icecream tells the readers about her friends, Strawberry Topping and Chocolate Shake, and her younger sister, Mocha Icecream. It should also show a conversation between Strawberry, Chocolate, and her about a trip to the Land of Chocolate Pudding. 

See what I mean? I'm not saying that my ideas are better than anyone elses; in fact I'd love you hear your ways. 
That's how I started a story though, and I hope that you found this post very helpful. 

Life ;)

I am a teenage wanna-be writer! My dreams are being a best-selling author! 

The people that inspire are indeed great ones.

J.K Rowling for instant. She wrote when everything seemed to be lost. But, she never gave up! How great is that? Rick Riordan is a great one too, I love his ideas and how he shares other religions with children. 

My mom and dad are a big support for it too. They don't patronize me but actually give me tips on writing and correct my grammar. My English teacher is also a good part of that. 

I like to write about depressing things when I write rather short stories, and they move people. As in feeling-wise, you know? This is one of the short stories I am talking about:

Ryan dug through the remains of his home. He had been so worried about yelling at his sister, Ryan didn't even check on the stove.

"Stop being so nosy, Asia!" Ryan exclaimed.

Asia looked sobered, "Why are you yelling at me? All I asked is what are you cooking."

"AND what are you doing? AND who are you talking to. STOP BEING SO ANNOYING!"

Asia ran up to her room crying. Ryan turned back around and was fixing to walk into the kitchen, as  he saw the flame licking under the door. Ryan hollered and ran out, totally forgetting about Asia's safety.

Now he regrets what he had said to her. The remains scorched Ryan's fingers, but he kept looking for her. Finally, he saw her blackened body, scorched from the flames. There was still a bit of fire running on her hair, and Ryan pinched his fingers around it, making it go out. 

"Asia," he sobbed, "I would take anything back to have you here right now.

Asia was clutching onto her dolly from when she was a baby, and Ryan hesitantly took it out of her hands, as if Asia might break if he wasn't delicate.  

He hugged the doll tightly and whispered, "Asia... I love you. Please come back.

Now, didn't that move you? I'm feeling all depressed now -.-. Anyway, this is about me wanting to be a author and how I go through it all. Exercises and stuff like that. 

I'd love for your feedback and what you would like me to change about my stories, and please don't patronize me. What I mean by that is, please don't baby me as if I can't take the truth. I really don't like it when people do that.