SEVECEN Sayı: 28 - 2019

145 Dalya BEHAR Makıng Changes Your Readers Can Relate To Sometimes some writers want to change fairy tales into their own versions. They can change a girl into a boy or someone really bad into someone really nice or someone beautiful to someone not beautiful. The classic fairy tale that I adapted was The Gingerbread Man. Instead of The Gingerbread Man, I turned the main character into something people can relate to like a regular cookie. Also the setting is a place people can relate to like the city and during Christmas. Also the background characters are animals that people see all the time like a bird, a cat and a dog. Instead of just doing everything magical, I turned some things that had to be magical like The Cookie and Santa Clause. The animals don’t talk for real – they just talk from their animal language. No one can understand them like usual. Because a lot of people who will read this story will be kids, I turned the old man and old woman into a girl and boy. It was really fun to adapt this fairy tale. It is easy to understand the story’s main idea when I turn the classic into things I can relate to. Kuzey CANOĞLU Embellıshıng the Small Moments You need to find a part in your story and write the part again with lots of details. Like when you put nail polish on your nail it looks pretty – you put the polish and it shines and it’s going to be better. That’s how it is like when you write. You add some details and more sentences to your writing. Think about the characters’ emotions. For example, instead of ‘‘Tom was very happy.’’ You can try, ‘‘Tom jumped high to the sky and his eyes were shiny.’’ It’s better to show the emotions to the reader, you’re not telling the emotions. One way you can do this is you can act out what the character does and says. Then you’re going to write it! Teoman KARADUMAN Tıps for Wrıtıng Well Writers need to put their heart into their writing. They need to be creative in their writing. If you’re writing something, you’re not going to write it like it’s nothing. You need to write it with a purpose and with you liking it. If you’re a writer who doesn’t like writing here is a tip. When you read and you like books maybe one day you will want to be a writer too. I hated writing when I was a kid. But as I read different books, then I thought ‘maybe writing is not a bad thing’ and I started to write. I wrote books for myself – 3 or 4 pages and now I love writing. At first writing is so hard but if you write when wanting it, you can write however you want. You just need to want it first. One last tip: You need a piece of paper, your mind to be creative and a pencil – but not a normal pencil – a pen too!