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Steph Bowe's Hey! Teenager of the Year
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A blog about literature, fashion and more by 16-year-old YA author Steph Bowe.
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How to deal with criticism

Step One: Lie on the floor like a starfish, staring at the ceiling. (Floating in a pool or other body of water works, too, if you can find one. But maybe not the ocean, because if you are floating in...

14 h ago

Teaser Tuesday: Sunny at the end of the world

I have this terrible habit of always starting new stories when I am supposed to be working on something else. I figure, though, that I should at least write the scene or chapter down before the inspi...

6 days ago

Stuff I have to share, like cakes with my book on them

This birthday cake belongs to Sam Whitehouse - an amazingly lovely aspiring author - made by her nan, incorporating her favourite books... one of which is mine! It looks very yummy (its marbled and p...

05 feb 12

2012 Books I Am Ridiculously Excited For

Queen of the Night by Leanne Hall This is out in March, from Text Publishing. Its the sequel to This Is Shyness, which was unique and dark and fantastic, and the cover is gorgeous. Plus! Sinister blu...

03 feb 12

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.” I havent yet read any of Anne Lamotts novels, but I loved Bird by Bird. It promises, on the cover,...

29 jan 12

How To Get A Book Deal When Youre Fifteen

There is this overwhelming focus amongst a lot of writers of childrens and young adult fiction (and definitely writers across other genres, too, but this is what Im familiar with) on publication, and...

27 jan 12

A Little Wanting Song by Cath Crowley & The Lucky Ones by Tohby Riddle

I am not doing well at this blogging-twice-a-week goal. This is mainly because I start writing something and then I get distracted thinking about how absurd human existence is and vow to become a ter...

11 jan 12

Happy New Year! & Writerly Resolutions!

Its a new year! How bout that. I hope you all have a most wonderful 2012... 2011 was a good year - though not a super-productive year on the writerly front (15-year-old me in 2009 pretty much had the...

02 jan 12

How to deal with people: Advice for the shy & socially awkward

1. Mostly, people are more worried about what you think of them. This is like that thing about spiders. You know, theyre more afraid of you than you are of them. Which Im not sure whether thats actua...

28 dec 11

Should authors really be on Goodreads?*

I have some conflicting feelings when it comes to Goodreads. First of all, I like being able to catalogue and keep track of everything Ive read, though Im on so many different sites now I forget to u...

28 dec 11

Did I ever mention that I took a gap year after kindergarten?

If I could actually remember what I did that year, I would write a heart-warming, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny memoir about a five-year-olds search for identity and purpose in the burbs. My grand a...

28 dec 11

On selling Steph Bowe

Ive been thinking a lot lately about the idea of the writer as a salesperson, as a public image, as a product. (And, by extension, about the public personalities everyone has to put on.) I wonder: wh...

28 dec 11

Luck versus Hard work & Recognising Your Awesome

Gosh, you guys, when did it become uncool to be proud of yourself? Was it ever cool to be proud of yourself? Everyone, all the time, is all, Hey, Im not that great. I only managed to [insert awesome ...

28 dec 11

On teenagerdom, friendship & why loneliness is okay

You can file "Your teenage years are the best of your life!" under Things I Never Want To Hear Anyone Say Ever Again. Lets pretend for a moment that your teenage years really were the best of...

28 dec 11

Teaser Tuesday: Little Death

This is not from the novel I am currently editing nor the one I am struggling to write, but a little scene which I wrote quite a while ago. Ive had the general idea for this novel and a bunch of scen...

28 dec 11

The Art of (Bad) Novel Writing

This was originally a guest post on First Novels Club in August of 2009. I know, ancient history! In internet time, thats like when dinosaurs were roaming the earth. Enjoy the totally unaltered goodn...

28 dec 11

5 Tips for Writing What You (Don’t) Know

Another guest post I wrote in the past (the internet. Its like a time machine) - this time from The Blog Realm in September 2009. -- Always, when I stumble across writing advice on the internet, I se...

28 dec 11

The stories I love the best are the most ridiculous ones

I like stories where people are always in comas or becoming amnesiacs or dying and then coming back to life and endings where it turns out it was all just in the narrators head. I like time travel an...

28 dec 11

Self-doubt: Its like the least fun thing ever

I have not blogged properly in such a long while that this makes no sense to me anymore. Sometimes when you look at things too closely its all very weird, isnt it? Like, what is this blogging thing? ...

28 dec 11

A Thousand Words Festival

Hey you kids in/around Melbourne! Whatre you up to this Friday & Saturday? Youre going to be sitting at home? Wasting hours on Facebook and Tumblr and thinking I should really get dressed and par...

28 dec 11

Whered you go, Steph Bowe?

Folks. There is a lot of rhyming fun to be had with my surname. (Its bow as in bow and arrow rather than take a bow. Oh no, Steph Bowe! Etc, etc.) But thats not what this post is about. This post is ...

28 dec 11

Lets talk about books!

Or more accurately, lets talk about books & magazines & other printed things Ive recently consumedDangerous Angels by Francesca Lia BlockI feel that if I were seventeen closer to when these n...

28 dec 11

The Writing Process (or From Crazy Notebooks to Draft): Guest post by Sue Lawson

Heres a guest post from Sue Lawson about her novel planning process, as part of the blog tour for her new novel, Pans Whisper. -- Thanks so much for inviting me to visit Hey! Teenager of The Year, on...

28 dec 11

Writing Bootcamp: Kate Gordons Editing Secrets!

Writing Bootcamp is a blog series in which I invite fabulous authors to share with you (yes, you! assuming you are an inquisitive writer) their best bits of writerly advice. Today, Kate Gordon, the m...

28 dec 11

Writing Bootcamp: Victoria Schwab says, Be Brave!

Writing Bootcamp is a blog series in which I invite fabulous authors to share with you (yes, you! assuming you are an inquisitive writer) their best bits of writerly advice. Today Victoria Schwab, au...

28 dec 11

Writing Bootcamp: Five Ways To Revive Your Novel by Luisa Plaja

Writing Bootcamp is a blog series in which I invite fabulous authors to share with you (yes, you! assuming you are an inquisitive writer) their best bits of writerly advice. Today, Luisa Plaja, autho...

28 dec 11

Writing Bootcamp: Writer’s Bootcamp: Why You Should Celebrate Your Rejection Letter by Holly Schind...

Writing Bootcamp is a blog series in which I invite fabulous authors to share with you (yes, you! assuming you are an inquisitive writer) their best bits of writerly advice. Today Holly Schindler tal...

28 dec 11

The Writing Process (or From Crazy Notebooks to Draft): Guest post by Sue Lawson

Heres a guest post from Sue Lawson about her novel planning process, as part of the blog tour for her new novel, Pans Whisper.--Thanks so much for inviting me to visit Hey! Teenager of The Year, on t...

16 dec 11

On teenagerdom, friendship & why loneliness is okay

You can file "Your teenage years are the best of your life!" under Things I Never Want To Hear Anyone Say Ever Again. Lets pretend for a moment that your teenage years really were the best of...

12 dec 11

Self-doubt: Its like the least fun thing ever

I have not blogged properly in such a long while that this makes no sense to me anymore. Sometimes when you look at things too closely its all very weird, isnt it? Like, what is this blogging thing? ...

10 dec 11

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