Inspiration and blog content.

Hey, hi, hello!
Let me begin with wishing you a happy weekend! Time has been set back one hour which is great, I get to sleep longer.
I carved a pumpkin yesterday and might do another one today.
I just love autumn, don't you?
Anyways, we writers are always looking for inspiration and as a realistic teenager it isn't always so easy. I'm a type that needs clarity, I can't do something if the success rate is too low.  I've seen hundreds of statistics and one can't help but feel at least a little down when seeing those.
Chances are quite slim that you get published and if you are anything like me you want to see your book as the New York bestseller. Well, you need one heck of a story to get there.
I'll be posting later on the journey from getting writing to actually being published.
I'll be writing about what makes a great plot and how publishing works. I've done my research and will blend sources together for a cocktail of publishing success.
I know I'm "just" some random teenager, but you'd be surprised. I'm probably one of the most motivated. I'm totally set on having been published before my 25th birthday in..
. Seven years! Seven great years of planning and plotting. Just need to get myself a laptop...
I'll also be focusing on teenage writers, and I want you guys to be involved! Send questions and topic requests on something you want me to go over and explain. Already you guys can comment on the posts, so please take this as an opportunity, and of course you guys who aren't teenagers are most welcome to comment and ask as well.
As for inspiration, just read. When I read a book (especially a series) and it ends I always sort of take a moment to breathe out. It is always sad when a book ends, no matter how happy the ending was, but I also find it inspiring.
Think if I could write a book like that. A book that glues people to their chairs because they can't stop reading and that leaves them with the same breathless feeling when they have finished it.
I've learned to stop looking at statistics. I refuse to be a statistic! Sure, the odds might be against me but I love writing and no one is going to take that away. Don't let statistics put out your fire of passion, keep at it and improve.
And if you get denied by a publisher, try another one! Don't let one rejection get you down, J.K. Rowling got rejected 12 times before she got published.
Learn from it if you don't get published, improve your story. If you truly believe your story is 'the bomb', you shouldn't stop after just one rejection.
Next post will be on Planning your plot from A to Z! 
Hope to see you then and don't forget to follow my blog! :)

Halloween writing prompts.

The end of October is drawing close and that can only mean one thing: Halloween!
Where I live this celebration isn't alive. At all. Sure there are some trick-or-treaters but no pumpkins and massive garden decorations, which is sad.
It leaves my family with so little of an impression that we nearly every year have forgotten to buy candy, and the kids were too nice to give us any crazy trick to have us remember for next year.
I can't even be bothered to go to the door because they all have really boring costumes.
As I said it's quite dull around Halloween where I live, but enough about how I (don't) celebrate Halloween and more of the writing prompts.
Halloween is in my eyes a time of coziness, pumpkins and a tad of horror so here we go:
1. What is Melanie doing in an abandoned house in the middle of the night? Where is it and how did she get there?
2. The streets were bustling with people. With their satchels and baskets they walked from house to house, showing off their costumes and hoping to get some candy. A group of twelve year olds have wandered off to the end of the street to admire the hundred or more pumpkins that lit up Mr. Maire's garden. It was an eerie sight yet beautiful at the same time. They walked the narrow path to the front door and pounded on it.
Silence.
Then the door slowly open, creaking as it did so... Continue the story.
3. Her head lay at an awkward angle, one that would be impossible if you weren't... He couldn't look at her.
What have I done? He thought, his body shocking as he cried.
There she lay in the grass, between the multi-hued leaves, in a white dress. Her eyes stared up at the clear starry sky.
He couldn't take it anymore... Continue the story.
4. Deputy officer Mason Jones is called up at home. His daughter has gone missing. He will take it upon himself to find her. Write a story about it.
5. In a lighting lit lab a man is making samples. He has found a way to control the earth. The samples contain a disease and only he knows the antidote, soon people will beg him for help. Why would he do such a thing? Write a story!
Hope you enjoyed these and have a great Halloween!

Living the life.

Hello to all ye fellow writers/authors out there,

Maybe I should start with a slight introduction and then I'll continue on. My name is Matthias, I'm younger than you are, unless you are from the year 1995 and up. I'm from the Netherlands but currently I'm enjoying life elsewhere.
Ever since I was eight years old I've been reading books nonstop. It started in my village library. I picked a book and read it. I really read it! You know how busy kids are and can't focus on one thing for all that long, especially books. But I read it and fell through the letters into the world on the pages. Ever since then I loved reading and it became my escape.
My reading became less frequent as school became tougher and homework was more than just 1+1=2.
Later we, my family and I, moved. We moved to a country with a different language, a rather dull one, and it killed my reading interest, besides I was too busy trying to assimilate into my new society.
Thank God I went to an international school and so I learned English. Now, I did know a little English as I was 11 years, however what I had learned was standard stuff from school such as, "How are you?" and the things I had learned from the MMORPG game Runescape. However my English skills trippled, probably quadrupled, in just the first year. That was when I talked to a guy my age who was reading a book about dragons, which he didn't like.
I had never read books about dragons or anything close to fantasy, so I offered to buy the book.
I immediately fell in love.

Eragon was my first fantasy book, and it didn't stop at that. I began to buy and borrow all these different books, didn't really matter what genre although fantasy was my preference, as long as it was a good read in my eyes.
I loved the variety of words in the English and as I read more my writing also improved. At first I was just writing my school assignments, but things changed when a girl in my class -who had read books like Eragon- said she wanted to become a published author.
Up until then it was like I didn't even know people needed to write books in order for others to read them.
At first I didn't give the idea in my head much notice but with age came the thought of the future and what I would want to become.
Businessman. Architect. Entrepreneur.
They all seemed like great jobs but I couldn't see myself in an office all day, even if the money was good. So slowly the thought of writing seemed to pop up, like a plant growing desperate to burst through the dull concrete. It began to grow and people seemed to enjoy the little creative writing I had started to do.

So here I am today wanting to become a published author. Now, I am well aware that the writing business is, sadly, a tough one and that I can't just skip college or Uni for writing so writing will stay a hobby, for now, until I can make a living out of writing.
Until then I intend to blog. I will give advice on writing and you can tag along on my journey.