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The first step is to hold back your urge to write. First do your homework, thoroughly.
Learn. Learn a whole lot about the place.
Start with Google StreetView and Panoramio.
Proceed through Wikipedia to learn not just about the place but about landmarks, anything in the area.
Find movies, amateur videos, anything to take place around there.
Read blogs of ...
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Go to QueryTracker.net.
Search for agents representing children's literature.
Go to those agents' websites. Confirm that you're submitting a book in the right categories for that agent.
Put together a query for the agents that you've selected, then send it out.
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Write an outline. At the very least write a sketch. So you are writing your story before you write your story. Have an idea of where it starts, what happens, and how it ends.
This gives you something to hang your ideas on. Then when you feel like walking away, or you get bored, you can go over your outline and see what's supposed to happen, and pick some ...
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This could be a problem with discipline on your part. Nobody can help you follow through on commitments except yourself, but perhaps the problem is that you don't have a commitment of any sort.
Maybe that's not it; maybe you get writer's block? Maybe you follow the rule of thumb, "when you get stuck on a story, write something else." And maybe that happens ...
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What is your purpose in writing about a foreign country or place? Do you intend the setting to be integral to your story? If so, and you have never been there, then you are probably facing a considerable challenge. You simply do not have the background to inject the elements of authentic detail that will be required.
On the other hand, if your aim is simply ...
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should be a short since I haven't written a lot of stories
Forget about that. Making stuff up about word count has no use, except someone pays you for a 1000 word article or a 60.000 words novel. Then you have to meet their criteria. Otherwise just write and count the words after you've finished your story.
I have no clue what your second question is ...
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