h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nah quite like the idea of being the Minister of Serendipity but haven't decided on anything yet, have been editing editing editing at the moment

ill never write anything that good

ill never write anything that good

For editing? Of course you will! It's taken me two years to get the guts to put anything into Peer Review and now not only do I have my first solo edited entry but I have at least three entries in Peer Review, have edited two entries which are pending and have another four entries waiting to be sent back to the Editors.

You've got a head start on me anyway because you're only thirteen and I wasn't even fifteen when I started on h2g2.

You'll get entries into the edited guide, have a little faith!

i dont think so i have nothing special to write about

Well write entries about your favourite bands or things you know about, most of my entries are about art because that's what I'm good at, you'll find your niche and I'm willing to look over and help with coding whenever you need it

im only good at making up stories and science and theres tons of people better

OKay hun, you're only thirteen, at thirteen I barely even knew how to work the internet let alone how to do coding or write a decent story.

I've never been good at English, art seemed to come naturally, but when I started on h2g2 I started entries on the meanings of peoples names, I wrote short stories and an entry on Shakespeare because it was all I could think of. Eventually I kind of abandoned my first entries and well this is what I've ended up with:

A335657 William Shakespeare - Playwright (May 21, 2000)
A338348 How To Become A Mosher! (Spoof!) (May 23, 2000)
A342532 Siblings!! (May 28, 2000)
A383032 The Meaning of Girls Names (Jul 1, 2000)
A384897 The meaning of Guys Names (Jul 3, 2000)
A445079 Gross recipe book. (Sep 29, 2000)
A532946 Is Physical abuse really just a way to teach a child a lesson today? (Apr 9, 2001)
A532964 The Demise of a Rock Band. (creative writing) (Apr 9, 2001)
A532973 The Pedestrian (critical) (Apr 9, 2001)
A532982 Pygmalion (critical) (Apr 9, 2001)
A532991 Lord of the Flies (critical) (Apr 9, 2001)
A533008 Anne Frank (critical about play) (Apr 9, 2001)
A562303 Newbie Welcome Note (May 20, 2001)
A743069 Bridget Jones's Diary (May 3, 2002)
A768567 H2G2 Researchers Top 10 CD's (Jun 15, 2002)
A773921 Music is part of the soul! (Jun 25, 2002)
A774137 H2g2 Guide to Scots... (Jun 25, 2002)
A774902 Artist - Neville Brody (Jun 26, 2002)
A774911 Artist - Cézanne (Jun 26, 2002)
A774920 Artist - Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Jun 26, 2002)
A774939 Artist - Georgia O'Keeffe (Jun 26, 2002)
A774957 Artist - A.M. Cassandre (Jun 26, 2002)
A774966 Richard Avedon - Photographer (Jun 26, 2002)
A779448 Guide to Artistic Terms (Jul 3, 2002)
A782093 Revision Song (Jul 8, 2002)
A783551 Nick Hornby (Jul 10, 2002)
A786440 My Top 50 (Jul 15, 2002)
A799068 The West Wing (Aug 4, 2002)
A804322 Gunther Von Hagen and Plastination (Aug 13, 2002)
A804340 Two Hundred Years and Two Modern Heroines (Aug 13, 2002)
A811487 Sunset Song (Aug 25, 2002)
A828380 How to Make Paper (3 Weeks Ago)
A834202 The Dreaded Mobile Phone Tone (2 Weeks Ago)
A840232 The Ministry of Fun Forms of Torture (Last Week)
A847820 The Tingling Feeling (Yesterday)


Most of them are from this year because I'm in my final year of school, I know what I want to do when I leave and I like doing research so I've gone and done searches on h2g2 and checked what out of my ideas isn't there, half of them are still work in progress but they're ideas

And there's nothing wrong with doing creative pieces, they can't be edited but you can still do it, some researchers even make up adventure stories revolving around their fellow researchers, I have a link which I'll find for you later.

Science, that's such a huge topic you'll be able to find something to write about, if it comes to it do a Guide Entry on certain aspects you're learning about in class. I did Geography last year and I'm even considering writing an entry on Soil of all things!

Just have a wee brain storm and think about books, films, comedians, authors, bands, artists, scientists...anything, write them down and then have a bash, it doesn't matter if you don't finish them.

And there's always a friendly researcher willing to help out if you get stuck

And I know you're having problems with GuideML, it takes a bit of time to learn the basics but soon you'll be flying through the stuff

im good at computers and could teach you stuff about publisher and the like.... That would be cool so what do i do to have a guide entry

Sounds like a plan

(And I know a lot about most pasic PC programs such as Publisher and the like because I did two computing courses last year and use computers every day)

To create a guide entry go to the bottom of your user page and you'll see "Add Guide Entry" click on it and create your entry, also go have a look at what they're looking for for the edited guide, it'll give you writing tips and the like...you could also try putting your entry into writing workshop if you're wanting hepl on getting it up to Peer Review standards

i could write a story on my space and then people could read n review

i could write a story on my space and then people could read n review like i could write different ones what ya think

go fo it

well how do you create more pages for the ps???

like I said, bottom of your PS there's a link saying "Add new Guide Entry" which will let you create guide entries

cool please give me some inspitarion

short story...well are you wanting to right one involving researchers you've met?

um im more into fantasy, well im better at writing it that way heee

no what I mean is you make up your fantasy story but you make some of the researchers you know as the characters

That way you could almost make it into a series of stories, you could build it up chapter by chapter with lots of plot twist and stuff, make it really interesting

Just a suggestion, this is your thing

THAT IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA