Attack of the Teenage Writing Monsters

[kikiwritingbird]

So, I was a little bored yesterday, and rather than actually do something productive like writing for my Thesis or anything, I read the literary efforts of my high school years. Sophomore and junior years (maybe part of freshman year) were dedicated to writing this fantasy novel I had come up with

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[__withoutwings]

I would be terrified to go back and read what I wrote in high school. All of it's stashed away on a ten-year-old IBM ... the computer still runs (poorly, but that's better than nothing). Either way, it's probably horrible and awful, though I have faith that the plot and characters were both fairly well-done. The style and syntax, though ... scary.

[kikiwritingbird]

That's pretty much the case, except for the boring shero. She's need some work. Or at least a personality.

[researchotaku]

Why don't you just make her little companion the star then?

If he's more interesting and all of the plot is there, why not make him the star? That's what happened with the third chapter of that Werechild story I did for Fiction Writing.

[photorebel]

wait...you wrote a story about my old roommate?? wow, you didn't even know her! you should not give her a personality, and everything is really exciting and interesting around her, but she is just boring...that would be interesting. (to me anyways)

[kikiwritingbird]

But see, exciting stuff was happening to her. She just wasn't realizing it yet. She was mostly "I miss home and my semi-bf and my friends and it sucks to be an orphan and why do I keep getting funny feelings when I already went through puberty?"

Her reactions weren't that great though. And she needed to be the star, because most of the plot did revolve around her.