Teen Writer's Guide: Your Roadmap to Writing
by Jennifer Jenkins
Overview: Imagine you had a road map for writing the book you’ve always dreamed of writing—a step-by-step guide from testing your story ideas, to visualizing your characters’ types and voices, to building a world that comes to life, to navigating the publishing industry, and going the distance to reach your writing goals.
As co-founder of Teen Author Boot Camp, one of the nation’s largest writing conferences specifically for teens, and Young Adult author, Jennifer Jenkins has helped thousands of teens travel the world of writing. Teen Writer’s Guide: Your Road Map to Writing is the culmination of years of research and teaching, providing a detailed road map to writing your own story and steering through the detours and pit stops along the way. Perfect for teen writers, their teachers, and anyone who has an interest in breaking down the craft of writing in fun and manageable ways, this book is sure to take you to your final destination—and help you enjoy the journey along the way!Review: Teen Writer's Guide: Your Roadmap to writing by Jennifer Jenkins is a great resource for beginning writers of any age to learn the basic principles of how to write a story. The book includes an example at the beginning of each chapter with a writing sample from Jenkins. Afterwards, she explains an aspect of the writing process she mentions and gives you some things to consider. The writing prompts were very useful to help come back to the main aspects of the chapter. I especially liked Chapter Four's focus on plotting.
Jenkins provides a lot of information in this book that beginning writers will need to know before they start writing their own stories. She also shows potential writing snags that writers may run into and how to avoid them. Multiple topics are covered such as characters, POV, world building, dialog, plotting, editing, getting published and so much more. She even includes a chart that aligns her questions to common core standards for educators who teach writing.
Overall, this is an excellent resource for all writers who are trying to learn the craft of writing their own stories. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about writing a book or who is currently writing a book but needs direction. A great addition to your home or school library.
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