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What do People Really Want to Read??
16/f I'm a writer it's what I do it's who I am. I've been so sick of reading the cliche teen books out there and I want another opinion. Recently there has been this idea in my head for a story after I threw away this novel that I bought and realized it was just like every other girl-meets-boys-falls-in-love-and-defies-all-odds/saves the world. I would like to ask anyone who would help me out: What is something that you've been rolling your eyes about and wish would change in the current teen stories that you see on about 20 bookshelves at Borders. I want to break the mold and if I have to ask every teenager out there what they want, I will.
Thanks,
Quincy
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Like most teen books, there's always this one girl who likes a guy, and eventually he likes her back, but a long the way, other guys like her. I'm really tired of that, because that is not how life is. D:
I'd say I rather read about a rejected girl going through family trouble, she's over-weight, likes a boy who is considered "cooler" than her, but it includes things that are there in real life. Such as curse words, racial comments, real drama that you see everyday.
Or, even better, a rejected boy. Just real life problems, and how they get through them. It doesn't have to end happily. I mean, it's your book. You can make the main character die of cancer, and say they didn't regret much in life, and I'd still like it. As long as it helps some people, you kow?
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first of all i admire that you're a writer that's awesome, so am i. but i just wish some young adult authors would mix it up a bit. every other book on the shelves at Borders is about either an outcast or a prep school/ boarding school student, with the same typical "cliques" and the end being a guy and a girl realizing how perfect they are for eachother. i mean, seriously those aren't the only poeple in the world to model characters after and that isn't the only basis of a story. and if it is, there could be twists and turns to make things a bit more intersting. i mean, don't get me wrong, that's a great story! but when you read it a dozen times it gets old. why don't you ask around and find out what's up with peoples' lives, what is going on ohter than falling in love and what people can relate to. don't write anything that you aren't inspired to, but maybe you'll find a muse! I just want to read something different, real, and interesting. good luck with the novel.
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In the books i read, there lifes are so perfect. And when soemthing bad happens, its for the better. I've NEVER read a book where when the vharecter is down...and keeps going deeper and deeper in life maybe picking herself up?
Also, stuff thats happening in the real world, like murdering, hunger, sucicide. I hate hearing the details. It makes me chuck the book. I don't want to hear about somehting nasty that could possibly give me nightmares.
hope i helped
-E
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I'm so delighted [ha! funny word =)] that you're a writer. I myself am sort of one. I've started two novels, and I'm only about 2 chapters into both of them, but it's a process, eh?
Anyway- I wish novels wouldn't be so cliché like you said. It's always about love and about how everything goes right for the characters.
I would really like to see damage and destruction in the characters' lives. That's kind of what I do for my stories. I think killing off the main character in a meaningful way is VERY effective and I don't see it done often.
Then again- I don't want to read about depression and drug abuse and whatnot [that's in all teenage novels, too]. I just want everything to NOT always be okay with the characters. Like their best friend dies or something realistic and meaningful.
I would really enjoy reading some of your stuff if you don't mind =]
--Jack
(16/m)
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