Archive: Writing Children's Minecraft Novel
Budget
1000$
per month
Posted: 5 years ago
Closed
- Description
- I'm looking for an author to ghostwrite a 25k word choose-your-own-adventure-style novel in an on-going Minecraft comedy adventure series for 7 to 11 year olds. I've written the first three novels in a series that's proving to be popular and I need help writing the next several installations in the series.
The series follows the story of the reader who has gotten sucked into the game of Minecraft after falling asleep on the keyboard one night and woken up as a zombie inside the game! The first three books follow the story of the character as they try to survive in the game they love so much and start to unravel the thread of how to get home.
As this book begins, the reader knows that they must go to the dimension called The End to get home, but as they leap into it they find that it is much too dangerous to do alone! If the reader survives the experience they then must try to recruit their friends: a crotchety skeleton, a family of self-conscious Endermen, or a tribe of gullible Zombie Pigmen; to accompany them. But when they find their friends, they're already in trouble and they have to help them before they get help!
The perfect writer for this job will...
- be talented at writing for kids
- know how to write age-appropriate comedy
- write exciting action sequences
- be familiar with the game of Minecraft (or be willing to do some research and get familiar)
- enjoy writing a choose-your-own-adventure-style book!
I have created a full outline for the structure of choices and the different sections of the book that need to be written to help in writing your first interactive fiction novel. This will hopefully simplify the process of writing this novel, but I do want to collaborate. So, if the author comes up with ideas that diverge from the outline, I want to embrace that excitement and am happy to modify the outline to create the most fun book!
I will also provide the ebooks of the previous books in the series for reference and will be happy to answer questions about the story so far and point the author to key moments.
There will be at least 7 more books in this series, so if we work well together there's the opportunity to collaborate on many more similar projects! I'd be excited to find a writer (or a couple) I work well with.
I've attached a pdf with an excerpt of the third book, to get a feel for the writing style, as well as the flowchart for this next book and the written outline to learn more about the project.
Working conditions:
Fixed Price
$500-$1k
Skills:
children's writing,writing,ghostwriting
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