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I have been writing for many years now. I first started writing when I started junior school in 2000, probably before that. When I was at junior school I used to write short stories just for the fun of it. I used to come up with some short stories and read them out to the class. I also used to come up with my own stories based on my favourite TV shows and read them out to my class. While I was at junior school I came up with the idea for a children’s book, I started writing it at home and updated some people at the school on it’s progress. After getting half way through the book I stopped writing and I left it for a few years, before coming back to it a few years ago. I wasn’t planning on publishing the book because I knew it wouldn’t get published, so I was still writing it just for the fun of it. That one book eventually expanded into a series of books which I was planning on finishing with the fifth book. Then last summer when I was on holiday in Tenerife, I was sat on a sun bed writing the third book, when my brother asked me when I was going to stop writing children’s books and write something different. I started thinking about it, then I saw one of my mum’s books lying on the floor, it was a crime thriller, I started reading it and suddenly lots of ideas started coming into my head for a new book.

1. So I read the book all the way through, and after I had finished reading it I had a basic structure for my next book. When I got home I started writing the book and after finishing it I decided to do a sequel to the book. I am still working on those two books today. Recently I watched the film The number 23 with Jim Carey, and after watching that it gave me the idea for a psychological thriller, which will be my next book that I write.

2. My influences in my writing career are, that I haven’t got many to tell you the truth, the ideas for my short stories came from my own head and my imagination. For my children’s books that I have written, most of the credit has to go to J.K Rowling and Harry Potter because that’s what really inspired me to write a children’s book, also J.R.R Tolkien and the Lord of the rings gave me some ideas as well. And for my crime thrillers there’s only one man that I can thank for inspiring me, and that’s Harlan Coben, his books are fantastic and they helped me so much with gathering ideas for my crime thrillers, if you like a good crime thriller I would suggest you try his books because they are just fantastic.

3. So what is a writing style, well a writing style is the manner in which a writer addresses a matter in prose, a manner which reveals the writer’s personality, or voice. It is particularly evident in the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of thought.

4. So what is a genre, genres are vague categories with no mixed boundaries. Genres are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. The scope of the world genre is sometimes confined to art and culture, particularly literature, but it has a long history in rhetoric as well. In genre studies the concept of genre is not compared to originally. Rather all works are recognized as either reflecting or participating in the conventions of genre. Most genres may also be segmented by the age demographic, those being children’s fiction, young-adult fiction and adult fiction. There are many types of genres; just some of them include historical, biographies and auto biographies, fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, westerns and horror.

5. Children’s fiction is a literacy genre that appeals to children, although many books within the genre are enjoyed by teenagers and adults. The first children’s author was John Amos Comenius in 1592, a Czech author who wrote Orbis Pictus, which is considered to be the first picture book specifically for children. Since then there have been many famous children’s authors including Charles Perrault who wrote Cinderella, little red riding hood sleeping beauty and puss in boots, the brothers Grimm who wrote Snow white, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel, Edith Nesbitt who wrote The Railway children and five children and it, Beatrix Potter who wrote The tale of Peter rabbit and many more books, E.B White who wrote Charlotte’s web and Stuart little, Roald Dahl who wrote The BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory and many more, Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson and J.K Rowling, these are just some of the hundreds, maybe thousands of children’s writers out there. While most children's literature is specifically written for children, many classic books that were originally intended for adults are now commonly thought of as works for children, including Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Conversely, some works of fiction originally written or marketed for children are also read and enjoyed by adults, such as Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass, and Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, both of which received the Whitbread Awards, which are typically awarded to adult novels. Also included are the works of J. K. Rowling and Shel Silverstein. Additionally, the Nobel Prize for literature has also been given to authors who made great contributions to children's literature, such as Selma Lagerlöf and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Often no consensus is reached whether a given work is best categorized as adult or children's literature, and many books are marketed in adult, children's, and young adult editions.

7. Fantasy literature is a fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950’s however a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, TV shows, graphic novels, video games, music, paintings and the like. It is difficult to define the precise 'beginning' of fantasy literature, as stories involving magic, paranormal magic and terrible monsters have existed in spoken forms before the advent of printed literature. Homer's Odyssey thus satisfies the definition of the fantasy genre with its magic, gods, heroes, adventures and monsters. Fantasy literature, as a distinct type, began to become visible in the Victorian times, with the works of writers such as William Morris, Lord Dunsany, and George MacDonald. Some would assert that J. R. R. Tolkien was seminal to the popularization of the fantasy genre, with his hugely successful publications – The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien himself, though, was largely informed by an ancient body of Anglo-Saxon myths — particularly Beowulf — as well as modern works such as The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison, but it was after his work that the genre began to receive the moniker, "fantasy" (often applied retro-actively to the works of Eddison, Carroll, Howard, et. al). J. R. R. Tolkien's close friend C. S. Lewis, author of the The Chronicles of Narnia, also an English professor interested in similar themes, was also associated with popularizing the fantasy genre. Some popular fantasy novels include The Lord of the rings, the Harry Potter series, the Charlie Bone series, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Homer’s Odyssey, the chronicles of narnia, and those are just a few of the hundred’s of fantasy novels that have been written.

8. A thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, gaming and television, it includes numerous often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains. Literary devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are used extensively. Thrillers often take place wholly or partly in exotic settings such as foreign cities, deserts, polar regions or high seas. The heroes in most thrillers are frequently hard men accustomed to danger. However they may also be ordinary citizens drawn into danger by accident. Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process. In recent years, when thrillers have been increasingly influenced by horror or psychological-horror exposure in pop culture, an ominous or monstrous element has become common to heighten tension. The monster could be anything, even an inferior physical force made superior only by their intellect, a supernatural entity, aliens, serial killers, or even microbes or chemical agents. Some authors have made their mark by incorporating all of these elements (Richard Laymon, F. Paul Wilson) throughout their bibliographies. There are many types of thrillers out there and here are some of them.

Action thriller - In which the work often features a race against the clock, contains lots of violence, and an obvious antagonist. These films usually contain large amounts of guns, explosions, and large elaborate set pieces for the action to take place. These films often have elements of mystery films and crime films but these elements take a backseat to action. Notable examples are the James Bond films, The Transporter, and the Jason Bourne novels and films.

Crime thriller - This particular genre is a hybrid type of both crime films and thrillers that offers a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes. These films often focus on the criminal(s) rather than a policeman. Crime thrillers usually emphasize action over psychological aspects. Central topics of these films include murders, robberies, chases, shootouts, and double-crosses are central ingredients. Some examples include The Killing, Seven, The Godfather, Reservoir Dogs, Inside Man, and The Asphalt Jungle.

Psychological thriller - In which (until the often violent resolution) the conflict between the main characters is mental and emotional, rather than physical. The Alfred Hitchcock films Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train and David Lynch's bizarre and influential Blue Velvet are notable examples of the type, as is The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan and The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (who also wrote Strangers).

Horror thriller - In which conflict between the main characters are mental, emotional, and physical. Two recent examples of this include the Saw series of films and the Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. What sets the horror thriller apart is the main element of fear throughout the story. The main character(s) is not only up against a superior force, but they are or will soon become the victims themselves and directly feel the fear that comes by attracting the monster's attention. Other well-known examples are Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs.

9. And it’s now time for my conclusion.

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