Young Writers Society

I am writing a simple story for a magazine (continuing each issue) and it is about a girl who goes camping with a friend, and her friend is rather wild, and doesn't need the sign that says there has been landslides in the mountains where they are camping. So this girls friend falls down a crevice, and now two boys have come along and found her, and the girl, who has no idea what do do, as they are miles from anywhere. The boys are going to rescue the girl, but I'm just stuck on how to do it without it sounding very cliche and boring! I have to fit each chapter on less than an A4 page, so I need to fit it all in, and keep the readers attention...

*sigh*... and I need it done this week!

So, any advice would be much appreciated

Try standing on a chair and looking at it from the top down. Or, from another perspective, if that helps. If you're doing the third person, try looking at it from one of the characters that may not be as important as you think. If you're going with the first person hero aspect, try looking at it from the third person pecismist aspect. Maybe the girl that fell isn't the greatest of people. Maybe she fell more or less on purpose. Try a lucas esque three stories at once. Put a bunch of characters in a hat, draw one, tell it from that angle. Theres lotsa ways to go about it.

Thanks for that, I'll see if I can come up with anything...but I'm not going to stand on my chair, or It will tip up