Young Writers Society

okay, firstly this story and idea has been with my mind for ages and i had longed to actually write it in paper. However when i read, Suzanne Collin's Hunger GAmes, my ideas began to fall becasue it was partly similar with the book. So i wonder if this novel is still good...despite some similarities between this and the book.

The story will be told in four different perspectives by four people. They live in a region called the New Kyoto and is governed by the self-government body, "the Council". these characters were invited for the annual review of the region wherein they will escort their town leaders to the Imperial palace. However, it was revealed to most of them that they will engage in a deathmatch known as "The Tournament" in order for the Council to decide to which town will lead the review of teh region.
However, everything is not what it seemed for the Council are manipulating the contestants so that when they actually start fighting, they will have no other emotion except for their desire their kill.

for more information, the story will be under the eyes of four people:

Maya: a tomboyish girl who thinks that she is a boy.
Asuka: an aristocrat girl who joins with the government to retrieve her lost fortunes.
Iniyuki: a light-headed girl who thinks of random things in her mind. She is under the guidance of two professional actresses.
Kaoru: a boy who is training in ninjutsu. He is the brother of one contestant and the murderer of his parents.

Since I've never read Hunger Games, I have a hard time critiquing you on that, but I would go ahead with this story if you don't think you'll ever publish it. For the main reason: practice, the more you write, the better you get at writing. But why should you have an idea (even one only <i>you</i> know is really original) and find someone else had that idea and then throw it away and then never come back to it? Whatever, go ahead, I'll read it if you ever write it...unless I forget you, drop me a line.
Nice Idea.

Yeah, I think it is a bit too similar to the Hunger Games, but as Jenthura said, that doesn't even matter to a teenage writer. If you think it'd be fun to write, write it. What've you got to lose?

However, everything is not what it seemed for the Council are manipulating the contestants so that when they actually start fighting, they will have no other emotion except for their desire their kill.

I like that idea a lot. If you want to make this original, I'd take that and work it in somewhere else. Not sure how you'd do it, and it'd have to be written quite well, but it could end up pretty good. See if you can make a mindmap of key words that go through your thoughts as ideas, and connect the dots. It's worked for me before, but then, I don't do novels, only shorts.

Good luck, anyways.

I think it is very much like the Hunger Games, but maybe you should just change certain parts to make it less similar to the Hunger Games, I can't think of any examples right now but you should be able to.
have fun

When it comes to writing I say write it.
With time you would know what to change and do to make it different and not have people say its similar to Hunger Games. Just by writing it you would know what to do .
Gambateee!

I say go ahead and write it. Originality is in the details. Never let that kind of thing hold you back! You could have alot of things in your storylines that The Hunger Games doesn't deal with, and characers too...so you have a different story altogether!
...Someone (I think it was Stephen King but I can't be sure) said that they started writing when they read a book and thought "Hey! I could do it better!". And then they did...