Oh, geez. I

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Oh, geez. I

Oh, geez. I just went over to Cicada, the magazine from Cricket media for teens 14 and up. I read just 1 comment and saw AT LEAST four really, really bad curse words. Ugh. Won't be going there again. 

submitted by Geez.
(September 18, 2016 - 5:32 pm)

back to the Chirp at Cricket

Also, any tips on how to write a ski lodge? I want to make one.

submitted by Geez. , age 14, Among the Flowers
(September 18, 2016 - 6:33 pm)

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submitted by Top. , Among the Flowers
(September 20, 2016 - 7:23 am)

A long time ago I tried to write a ski lodge, but it didn't go so well :P. Here are a bunch of tips that I think would have helped me: 

- Make a unique premise that will catch peoples' interest

- Kind of know loosely what is going to happen before you start

- Don't give up! Keep writing your ski lodge so it will not die out like 80% do after the second day.

- People like dramatic deaths. Try to make each death unique and somewhat violent, but don't go into any gruesome details. 

- Keep the story moving, the deaths coming. When I started my ski lodge it took about three boring days to get to the first death, and by that time everyone had lost interest!

- Get inside the murderer's head a little bit. (IE something like "'But who could have hidden her body so well it would be impossible to find?' wondered ___. I could, thought the murderer."). This makes it more suspenseful.

- Have a murderer in mind from the beginning.

Hope some of those help :)! 

 

submitted by Yikes, not real CB name
(September 21, 2016 - 8:26 am)

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submitted by Top, age In a grave, Among the flowers
(September 20, 2016 - 9:43 am)

Yeah, Cicada's really intense from what I've heard. Not planning to check it out any time soon. As for ski lodges? I'm not that good at them. . . I prefer CB stories. All I can say is: try to create a plot outside of the murderning so that the story is unique and not a cookie-cutter murder mystery.

submitted by Abigail S., age 12, Nose In a Book
(September 21, 2016 - 12:05 am)

Do they have Admins at the Cicada place?

 

Yep! There are admins. The Cicada writers are allowed to swear and talk about older things that we don't allow on the CB. ~Admin 

submitted by Yikes
(September 21, 2016 - 8:15 am)

Oh yeah... Cicada definitely holds some of the more . . . free-languaged teens.

If you go on several teen websites, you'll see a lot of that.

As for writing a ski lodge, I'd say get the CBers into a large, worry-free place (though that's kinda cliche), pick a murderer (or even murderers), and give them a motive. Then use some random materials to make them kill them and stuff.

Hooray for bad advice.

I honestly have no idea how to write suspense or stuff. 

submitted by Novelist, The Secret Forest
(September 21, 2016 - 6:12 pm)

i took a look at cicada and i must say i totally prefer Cricket, mostly because cricket is much lighter and less serious, and also cicada has NO RPs!!!!!!! xo

submitted by DRAGON, age 15, the library
(September 22, 2016 - 6:48 pm)

CAPTCHA says body!

submitted by Wow
(September 24, 2016 - 4:57 pm)