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I've written a grand total of one story specifically for a child. It was the same situation, a friend's son had a birthday (10th) and I offered to write a short story for him (with his mum's permission). He asked for a werewolf story - which was fantaistic since I write werewolf stories (not sure if his mum had a hand in that decision, but no matter).
The boy is bright and reads adult fiction, but I was conscious I write stories along the adult romance line, so my biggest hassle was keeping that side of me out of the story. I also write horror - I did go with that genre, although toned down and with a happy ending.
I gave story to the boy's mum to vet before handing it on and although she said she could see the backstory she was confident her son wouldn't grasp it.
He enjoyed the story a lot.
I hve written many other stories for specific adults; some that give vague outlines similar to what you have been given, other have been very specific in what they want happening; down to the description of the characters and thier behaviour in specific situations as well as word count.
Those that are very specific are the hardest, the most challenging, but the most pleasing when you get it right.
My words of wisdom
- like with any story, if you don't enjoy the story yourself it won't come out the best.
- again as with any story to be publised in any form, proof it, get someone else to proof it, and proof it again.
- Use simple, common words. I do this no matter what age I'm writing for. It doesn't mean you can't write well, or emotive, or get an exciting story going. It means don't cause your reader to go to a dictionary to discover what you mean. but if you want to use a word that might stretch the reader add in an explanation so that the meaning of the word is easily understood. Same as if you used a word from another language, or a made-up word.
Not sure if any of that helps, but I wish you words.
Cat
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