Ben Lemmon
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How long is your story? If it's not too long, you could try and get it published in a literary magazine. If it was around novel length, I'd look into getting it published. I know you said that it was just for fun, but why can't your projects bring in a little bit of income?
When I was in 6th grade, I wrote another Titanic story called John: the Story of a Boy on the Titanic. It was a very short piece, as it was for the Young Author's Contest. Anyway, what happened was John traveled second class on the Titanic with his mother and father. He meets a girl named Becky from first class and they become fast friends. The night of the sinking, John notices that Becky's parents forgot her (strains your belief, I know). While John's parents get on a lifeboat with Becky's parents, John goes off in search for Becky. He finds her, and they are on the Titanic as it is going down. They climb on a funnel, which eventually breaks, and the funnel falls into the water. These two kids cry out to a lifeboat, which returns and picks them up.
There is no conceivable way that a lot of this story would happen. For one, who would leave their child on board a sinking ship. Two, I stated that there was a dance at the Grand Staircase. Didn't ever happen. Three, by using Cameron's idea of no class barriers, I added to the already plentiful fallacies incorporated in the book. Oh and yes, I was in 6th grade after Cameron's Titanic. Three years afterwards, as a matter of fact.
When I was in 6th grade, I wrote another Titanic story called John: the Story of a Boy on the Titanic. It was a very short piece, as it was for the Young Author's Contest. Anyway, what happened was John traveled second class on the Titanic with his mother and father. He meets a girl named Becky from first class and they become fast friends. The night of the sinking, John notices that Becky's parents forgot her (strains your belief, I know). While John's parents get on a lifeboat with Becky's parents, John goes off in search for Becky. He finds her, and they are on the Titanic as it is going down. They climb on a funnel, which eventually breaks, and the funnel falls into the water. These two kids cry out to a lifeboat, which returns and picks them up.
There is no conceivable way that a lot of this story would happen. For one, who would leave their child on board a sinking ship. Two, I stated that there was a dance at the Grand Staircase. Didn't ever happen. Three, by using Cameron's idea of no class barriers, I added to the already plentiful fallacies incorporated in the book. Oh and yes, I was in 6th grade after Cameron's Titanic. Three years afterwards, as a matter of fact.
