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If you are a young person, any attempt for you to write an advisory or educative book about elderly people will lead you to a grave failure. The thing is, if you are aged 30 years, what would you know about life of people above your age? However much you think you can imagine their problems, you may not impress them. Otherwise, what would be the source of your knowledge?

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At your age and life experience, you would be better off in writing for people who are younger than you. You could succeed for writing for teenagers and children. However, you can write for any age if your story is based on critical education or serious adventurous experience, like if you have survived a road accident, divorce, loss of someone you loved or a serious mistake you did in life, and so on. You would succeed because you are telling them something based on an extraordinary experience. Extraordinary experiences can fall upon anybody.

Let us say, for example, as a young man, your experience has taken you through falling in love with a daughter of a criminal drug dealer father. You did not know anything about her father. You met the girl and fell in love with her quickly and got married. Unfortunately, thereafter you discover you had plunged your life into a criminal family. You you are struck by regret. Consequently, you want to save yourself by running away from your wife. However, when your father-in-law hears of your intention he threatens with death for fear that if you go out of the family you would expose the family. That is an experience which is potential for developing a novel for anybody. However, you don’t develop the novel by simply writing about what you went through. Instead, you sit down and find out how you could make fiction out of that story which will help you explain your philosophy of life. If you tell the story according to your experiences, that falls within reporting and autobiography.

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The matter is different if you decide to make the novel out your dangerous experience of falling easily in love and getting married urgently. You can now think of expanding the subject by creating characters to tell the story in a broader manner in which your novel would exploit the ignorance of and dangers of going for quick engagement and rushing into marriage.
The novel, although it will include other subjects, will be based on your experiences. Your thesis in the story is to educate people on marital matters. How you plan telling the story is crucial.

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