Young Writers Society

Basically, I completed my "novel" for national novel writing month in november, finally hitting 50,000 words, and now I'm itching to write again. I've been thinking around and although I don't have an actual plot yet, I'd be interested to find out whether people think I am on the right sort of lines, and whether it's something they would ever consider reading.

The themes I have going with it are adolescents and culture. It's all going to be about how life is really like now, with no frills attatched. Friendship and romances included, and probably the idea of 2 friends going on some sort of trip. I know that it's vague, but I want to kind of incorporate the idea that everyone in the world is scared of eachother, but even more than that they are scared of life. If anyone has seen the film Garden State, that's my kind of idea - the way they scream on the brink of a cliff, cos they just don't know what else to do.

Any feeback would be appreciated.

I don't like the idea of going away, that isn't my type, but the rest sounds good. Just normal kids growing up.

Yeah, I'd read it, maybe. If it was published I might borrow it from the library, but from what you've told me I wouldn't actually buy it.

I would totally read it... I can totally see where you're coming from!

~Leanne

(This might be a bit late, XD.)

I would totally read something like that. It seems like an interesting idea, and I LOVELOVELOVE Garden State, so if there's any similarities, I'd probably be in love with it on plot alone. Are you going to post it on here?

My friends and I have an ongoing joke that when we're twenty-one we're going to backpack around Europe...that's what I thought of instantly when you said that lol. So yes, I'd read it now, only because I think of my crazy pals and me hiking around Austria.

I would totally read it!

I like the idea of screaming on the brink of a cliff especially. It seems like the kind of thing I'd do...

So anyways. I would read it, definitely.

I always like books and stories like that... If they're well made. I mean, how many books about teenage angst are made that do not feel the least bit geniune. Also, it depends on how interesting you make your characters. Yeah, you can say that it's about how life is really like but... Many times you'll realize that life, ordinary life, isn't very interesting. Even books about how life isn't interesting, are not really about real life. Writers create their own worlds, as defined by their characters, and their quirks, and paranoias. Also, this kind of idea, the road-trip idea, had been done to death. You have to make your version of this story interesting by putting your own touch.

Like, for example, a fairly recent example of this kind of story is Y Tu Mamá También. That movie does what you want to accomplish perfectly. I suggest you watch it. Alrighty then. Good luck.

I would read it because it would be interesting to see an authors perspective on modern culture, however it isn't the type of book I would buy, love, or cherish.