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Post by Jules Sanchez on Aug 26, 2016 23:52:54 GMT -5
So this story has been floating in my head for quite some time and I am wondering if it is even worth writing. Please let me know what you think.
This story follows a girl who is entering her second year of university, and life isn't going and has never been the way she expected it to be. Throughout high school she was severely hated due to the boys she dated and the fall out that happened from them. She's afraid of taking risks and due to this she hasn't grown. She's scared to drive due to an accident, she can't cook, and she has been stuck at the same retail job for many years- and has been following the same routine for as long as she remembers. She has been watching clips of the same reality show over and over again, with no desire to change. She isn't happy with her life, she talks about death and all the things she wishes she could do- and never does. She likes this guy in her program, but she's afraid to tell him due to the many times she has been let down. Despite liking this person, she is unable to let go of her past and move forward with her life. She has a friend who she calls her "best friend" even though she is never around in her life anymore. Then one day, tragedy strikes. Her best friend is killed in a drinking and driving accident. While she is walking through her friend's room, she finds her best friend's favorite book. Out of it slips a piece of paper in which a bucket list has been written, but it was written by her friend for her to do. This story would follow the story of this girl as she learns to love herself, break the patterns that she's stuck in, and tries to take more risks in the one life she has been given. This also follows the story as to why her friend treated her this way, and learning to finally let go.
This is a very bare-bones blurb but what do you guys think?
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Post by rose on Aug 27, 2016 5:32:48 GMT -5
I like it!
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Post by A Meadow Mushroom on Aug 27, 2016 20:05:48 GMT -5
Yo, I'd read that. That sounds so interesting
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Post by Jules Sanchez on Aug 27, 2016 21:41:19 GMT -5
I'm so glad to see this! Thank you both so much!
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Post by Splintercat on Sept 4, 2016 1:30:13 GMT -5
I like that, I'd probably read it
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Post by Cloverfrost on Sept 4, 2016 6:00:47 GMT -5
Yes, yes, [f] yes please do this! it sounds like a dark version of me lolBut honestly, you could slip in elements of surrealism and absurdism. "She has been watching clips of the same reality show over and over again, with no desire to change." —you can really push this kind of theme. Maybe even start it off as an absurdist piece, with heaps of repetition and existential questions. Then as she starts to explore the list, it becomes more realistic as she emerges into the "real world". I'm super interested to see where you take this.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2016 12:54:26 GMT -5
☂ This would be awesome to read! Let me know if you decide to write it/post it. It'll be awesome to see. (:
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Post by petrarch on Sept 23, 2016 16:08:22 GMT -5
It sorta sounds like a book called Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson, but I think you should go for regardless because as you write a story the plot alters. Who knows what might happen!
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Post by Brindleface on Sept 27, 2016 5:34:24 GMT -5
It kinda sounds like something I've heard of before (if I'm correct to assume that she tries to complete the bucket list), but I think it could be interesting. I wouldn't personally read it because I don't usually like books in which the main character is spurred by someone's death, but I do think many people would.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2016 16:13:11 GMT -5
This sounds really interesting, I'd read it.
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