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i am a writer....i hav questioned entire novels (yeah, i'm 13 and i've written novels-none published...yet!) forget what everyone else wants! As long as it is perfect in the creators eyes, it is perfect.
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Start writing it now so you can refine it as you learn more about writing.
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Sounds like me and my dream to become a playwright. I've been taking a class, and everyone else's stories and ideas sound so original and better than mine.... Just start slowly and work your way up, you'll find your inspiration, and get your work out there!
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I know how you feel. Keep trying, and someday you will surely make something perfect.
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Graduate and get a degree in music 
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People work on things for YEARS. Start when your sixteen, finish when you're twenty six. Or whenever you're ready 
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5 minute bursts. start a draft, type for five minutes and don't fix any mistakes. just keep typing. after 5 minutes start a completely new draft.
do it until you get something you can work with. have people read it over.LOTS of people. make sure they aren't just going to say "oh that's nice" find someone who will give you constructive criticism. once you have a script, start on the music. or hire someone to do the music. ask for volunteers.
i've been having the same problem in my intro to film class. i'm not a writer! haha! they don't understand at all! i work with pretty lines not with pretty words.
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It takes ages, man. But if that's what you want, go for it! (Just know what you're realistically getting into.)
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Write it. Revise it. Edit it. Make it the best you possibly can!
Don't be pressed for time. You are still young, so let it span out over years. Keep making it the best it can be.
You'll get there. And everyone will love it.
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Well, don't be afraid of mistakes! You have to make loads of mistakes to make something fantastic, each one teaches you something valuable!
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Well, you can always write a rough draft and then work on it to perfection!
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That is an awesome aspiration. Just remember that you /are/ sixteen, and therefore have plenty of time to start on it and perfect it! It does not need to be done right now. What fun would life be if you completed your greatest aspiration in one day? Savour the journey.
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Just remembers : who cares how many times it takes to be well done? Just have fun to make it, whatever part you begin by.
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I know this feeling. It's the same one that has been stopping me from starting my graphic novel. Here's the thing: once it's finished, it doesn't mean you can never touch it again! If, years from that time, you think "Well I didn't make this well enough when I was younger, as compared to my current skill, but I like the idea!" you can go back and change it.
My point being: start. Give it your best shot.
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It's okay to feel that way. Just work on it until you feel it's done. I've been working on the same novel since I was twelve, and I'm eighteen right now. Things don't take weeks to finish. They take years, generally. The trick to getting something done is to start.
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Write it out and keep revising it, even if you have to redo it over and over. Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day! Writing down little notes at random points would help too. Keep a small note pad and a pen with you for when you have an idea.
Even if you're scared nothing will happen unless you try! It doesn't matter how old you are. <3
Keep a copy of your first draft and one day when it is done, compare the finished piece to the older.
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Go for it.
If you start late, you'll have less time to fix it before you start making it.
Start with the basic plan.
"Orientation"
"Climax"
"Resolution"
And work from there.
Script, characters, background, and personality.
Rough draft, final plan.
Idea, dream, reality.
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Let me give you a little advice from Chris Baty, the founder of National Novel Writing Month coming up for its twelfth year this November...
This is in Chapter One of his book 'No Plot? No Problem!'
"The first law of exuberant imperfection is essentially this: The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy.
"β¦ As grown-ups, we come to place undue importance on this thing called βcompetenceβ. β¦ What do we do when we have free time? The tried-and-true activities weβve already perfected. Like talking on the phone. Or walking up and down stairs. Or getting drunk. The times we do actually make a point of stepping out of our normal routine, we tend to get flustered when we donβt get the hang of it right away. This is especially true with artistic endeavors. At the first awkward line of prose or botched brushstroke, we hurriedly pack away the art supplies and scamper back to our comfortable domains of proficiency. Better a quitter than a failure, our subconscious reasoning goes.
Exuberant imperfection allows you to circumvent those limiting feelings entirely. It dictates that the best way to tackle daunting, paralysis-inducing challenges is to give yourself permission to make mistakes, and then go ahead and make them."
In other words, you can't worry about perfection. That's for later. If you worry about that now, you're never going to get anything written. Give yourself permission to suck. Go ahead. Say it right now. "I am allowed to suck."
It's only once you've allowed yourself this that you can write anything good. Yes, there will be a lot of crap mixed in with that goodness, but the goodness will still be there. Perfection is a process. You won't reach perfection on your first try, or maybe even your one hundredth, but you will eventually reach it. Unless you're too afraid to even start.
Script Frenzy is in April, and is similar to NaNoWriMo. You have 30 days to write 100 pages of script. I've never tried Script Frenzy, as my passion is in writing novels, but I do know that the NaNoWriMo challenge broke me out of my need for perfection when I was around your age. Yes, what I wrote sucked and nobody will EVER see it, but I learned so much about the novel process, and I've written two finished first drafts since then, as well as countless short stories. My creativity is no longer blocked by the need for perfection.
Script Frenzy is still quite far away, so I would suggest in joining NaNoWriMo , where you write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. It's not a script, but maybe it will help you to break out of this need for perfection.
I look forward to seeing your work!
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Just found this quote. It speaks the truth: [link]
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You are an artist. You are a young artist who wants to do your best. That's fantastic. I started doing a lot of my more "serious" writing around this age... If I can impart any advice/words to you, it's that no matter how much you work on it, there will always be something else you think could be tweaked. And this is a good sign. This means your mind's at work, you're moving towards getting better.
When you get over your fear, good things happen. Give yourself time, don't be afraid to be afraid, but don't be afraid to work past that fear, either.
I wish you so, so much luck. I love hearing about people like you, and I'm always cheering for people like you, people who have the drive. You can do it!
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The other comments above mine are completely and absolutely correct. You'll never know until you try. And you can't even think about getting something published if you haven't even written a rough draft yet! Write something, send it to an editor or whoever you'd have to send it to. They may say "no" or they may say "no because of this" or even "yes but only if you fix this this and this". It'll never be perfect the first time, which is why you've got to put yourself out there. There's even the possibility that you write something, they don't like it and you send something else to them or someone else later and they remember you, or someone else saying "oh yeah it was really good but it just seemed like they were too young to delve into the topics they were touching properly" and there! Bam! Connections.
There's no biz like showbiz, babe (or guy, but I call everyone babe so don't take offense xP).
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The only way to make something perfect (which is a completely relative term, mind you) is to start. You start with a rough outline, you just start typing/writing/taking notes and you let it all branch out from there. So what if you're sixteen? If this is something you want, then you start working on it right now, not tomorrow, not next weekend, you do it now. You leave a notebook by your bed so if you wake up in the middle of the night with an amazing idea, you take it down right there and then. The only person who can ever truly stand in the way of making your thoughts turn from dream to goal to reality, is you.
Good luck! I can't wait to see the next big thing, and I hope its from you!
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It's alright hun/man, really.
Every person that's created something amazing, something that's lasted for centuries, they didn't think "I think I'll whip this up and chill...". They had the exact same dream you did. They were probably scared, they were probably very young when they got the idea, and they probably knew that it needed to be perfect as well. Some people fail. Other people succeed. But every single person still had to put a pen to paper and try first.
Give it your all and don't look back. Whether you make it or not, if you put in all your heart and soul, it will be perfect to you.
Good luck, ST!
~SK
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