tell me if this is a good idea for a story…?

March 30, 2010 admin 6 comments

..teenage girl, roxanne (or something) goiing thru changes in her high school career. has really wealthy friends, one of them THERESA is a pretty bad egg. in 8th grade theresa was sent to a rehab facility centered on helping eating disorders and treating them. roxannes parents are pretty wealthy and well known and her mom wants her to go to the annual summer camp that roxanne always goes to and is a counselour at.. her mom tells her to invite theresa and her other friend mary kate. mary kate and theresa have other plans, however… sign up for camp, make parents pay all the money and instead go on a road trip for the time (month and a half). roxanne falls for it and ditches camp. theresa invites roxies b/f, and his two friends. ends up that theresa screws everyoneup and just wanted to meet up with her druggie anorexic hippie friends, and roxies b/f is a loser who screws with mary kate, etc.. its all like everyone has secrets and finding your true friends and religion in situations …
yeh, i’ve been wanting to write lately and thought of screen writing, but like novels better. srry if the idea or plot isn’t clear…it may sound really awkward and weird, but i’ve really got some cool endings thought of and things like that. plus i only had a paragraph or so to describe, so yehh srry.
it sounds typical also but the characters are really taking a long time to sort out and i think its differnt than most stories like this b/c its psychological in some ways… we find out more about the characters as the story goes on, what motivates them, and some have hidden identities as well as a strong case of split personality. it gets good
first of all they’re not eight graders!… thats when one went to rehab. i didnt mean to make the anorexics on drug a stereotype, its just who they are. the main characters are going to be Juniors in high school. neways, thanks for telling me. i’ve been thinking about writing things other than “kid” stories, but this IS my first time writing a really big thing, and it is difficult at first…

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Written by masman about 2 years ago.

hmm seems like a chick story (no offense) all the names really bugged it up maybe rephrase it into something a little less long and detailed some sort of plot summary or some sort of plot they made us do in school.
Written by Amanda about 2 years ago.

Sound like a very good idea for a story. I love stories with secrets and finding out who your real friends are. Are you gonna write it or something? Because if you are than you should really go for it.
Written by alexeverwander about 2 years ago.

Honestly, it sounds too ordinary, and the summary is difficult to read. Formatting is your friend!
Written by Jayne about 2 years ago.

Kind of depressing isn’t it? I would try and build it up instead of bringing out all the problems at once. It also could get a bit confusing as well.
Written by Persiphone_Hellecat about 2 years ago.

It doesn’t do much for me. I’ve seen it dozens of times before. Unless you have a really unique twist, I don’t see how it would work. A month and a half? And nobody notices they are missing? Eighth graders???? Come on – I doubt ANY parents would forget about their 14 year old kid for a month and a half – especially not one already through rehab. Not realistic at all. Also – what is with druggie anorexic hippie friends? That is one weird stereotype. An anorexic on drugs would be a dead anorexic. And yeah the names are just too cutsey. Why do kid writers here always put so much emphasis on cute names instead of character studies? It’s like you pick the cutest names you can possibly think of, decide which one is blonde, which one is brunette, which one is redheaded, give them boyfriends, send them on a road trip and it’s a novel. There is so much more to characterization than rich and cute. Sorry – not buying it. Pax – C
Written by WannabeWriter about 2 years ago.

First, I have to disagree with something Pax C said. The words “Kid writers” & “always” kind of got under my skin. I happen to be a “kid” writer, and I think that some of the younger novelists-to-be are capable of doing great character studies.

Okay, back to your question. =)

I don’t get how they could just vanish from camp. Maybe their secret is blown, but no one knows where they are anyway, so they can’t be tracked down. And ouchie, there’s screwing. The relationships kind of make the story more complicated to understand. There are just too many characters, maybe you could narrow it down to two girls, two boys, if that helps.

Sounds like it would have a good moral in the end, but you might want to make it more realistic.

And the part about Theresa going to the rehab facility – is that going to be in flashbacks? That would be cool. And, also, how’s that gonna make it into the overall plot?

Good luck on fixing up the plot a little, and I hope you get to write your story soon enough. =)

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