Barely Hare Books is dedicated to helping teen writers like you write fiction worthy of an epic following. Through affordable writing guides and free resources, Barely Hare Books makes writing fandom-worthy fiction a reality for every creative teen. The blog discusses universal writing techniques and practices used by best-selling authors with enormous fandoms. It breaks down these techniques one topic at a time to help fresh-faced, young writers like you easily understand these universal formulas and apply them to your work of fiction.

Oh, and FYI: we geek out hard here so expect articles celebrating fantastic fictional characters, worlds, and stories too.

Fantasy Author, Barley Hare Books blogger, Ent hugger, Porg whisperer, and writing advice curator.

I built Barely Hare Books on the belief that writing fandom-worthy fiction isn’t out of reach for any young person. I created this site with the goal of helping teen writers like you believe in yourself and clearly understand what it takes to write spectacular fiction.

I want to help you become the writer you want to be. I also want to share the mistakes I made at your age to help you avoid the same pitfalls so you can start your writing journey the right way.

See, when I was about eight years old, I discovered writing was my calling. I wrote fiction for years, unaware that I had no idea what I was doing. I thought that since I consistently got off-the-chart grades on my narrative essays in school that it meant I was destined to be a best-selling author.

But I learned the hard way that no one has a unique gift for storytelling. I learned that all best-selling writers work hard- very hard– to achieve their goals.

So I refocused my mindset. I read as many books, blog articles, magazine articles, etc. about writing that I could get my hands on. After years of gathering powerful advice and techniques from my favorite authors, I finally put their advice to work and published three works of fiction I was proud of. Heckin’ proud of:

But after publishing those books, I knew my work wasn’t over. Every day is another opportunity to learn more about this fantastic craft. And that fact helped me realize that I wanted to share what I’ve learned with YOU.

Make a promise to yourself right now that your writing dreams are worth working hard for. Because the first secret to great writing is perseverance. I’ll help you all along the way, promise. Start writing your next piece of fandom-worthy fiction right now.