Reading books will soon be impossible?
Hi,
I am 15 years old and I am very interested in writing a book.
I actually wanted to write a thriller, but I just couldn't find the spark of an idea. So I thought it would be interesting for many people to learn about teenagers' thoughts on certain topics. So I wanted to write a book about performance pressure and school stress, since I'm pretty knowledgeable in that area…
But I rejected this idea too, because I thought it sounded more like a guide than personal thoughts.
That's why I'm now very unsure about how to proceed with my interest.
What would you do in my situation? What do you think of my idea? Can you help me with my problem?
I'd be delighted to receive any serious answers, even if you're not an expert in the field or if this question is older. Thank you.
Cat😺
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The mistake will be that you want to write the book for others instead of bringing your ideas to paper for you and formulating them.
Writing is about preserving its own stories, whether it be Crimea, Thriller, Horror, Biography, etc., making it accessible to itself.
You see what’s going on from the books that were written only for the readers…with every new book they get worse and boring.
There are only a few authors, especially in the area of Crimea/Thriller or even in the case of non-fiction books/consultants, who keep themselves permanently when they only write for the audience.
Writing is about DEINE passion. If you want to write a thriller, do it; you want to tell what is going on in you (you speak only for you, not for other young people), do it.
Everything is allowed on paper (or on the computer, laptop or smartphone).
But you really should get away from writing for others… before writing about the verdict of the readership, because that blocks how you experience yourself.
This “who will want to read this” is the death of many good authors.
And as I said, write for you. If there is a book, you can publish it at any time…but write the book first.
You want to write, you should really deepen that. My pupils who write, I always encourage… this is such a wonderful hobby.
Thank you for this statement. In fact, when implementing my idea, I was thinking only of the readers and not of my interests. You helped me a lot.
Katzi😺
Hi!
Have even written books and have an idea how to address teenage problems in your book without sounding like a guide.
I don’t know what a genre you write, but I love fantasy. For example, I would make the main person MC a 15-year-old girl (so say you, but you can give her another persona), and then there is another guy, and MC has the problems you want to address. You have to see what your message is to end. You can, if the Message Z.b. is to be “You are not alone with your problems,” yes, the story so that MC moves into a new city and is overwhelmed and finds friends and a Love Interest LI.
Don’t forget to build an exciting plot that you’re stuck and don’t stop after the 2nd chapter. Since you also said that you want to write a thriller, you can add it, you can combine it super!
And a tip: With a love story as a sideplot, JEDES’s book gets better, whether thrillers or not, and this fixes many to read more!
Hope I helped you!
Greetings
Hello, Alie,
Thank you for your detailed help. As I have already explained in an upper answer, I have already thought about incorporating the subject into a thriller. At this point thank you for your encouragement.
However, I was still uncertain about the turning point and therefore gave up the idea quickly. The Lovestory is a very good idea. But I still have no experience with the subject… let alone writing such stories.
But of course I can try it anyway. You helped me a lot.
Katzi😺
No. Sometimes it’s just deposed and no human needs it.
I think persuasive thoughts are always what we are looking for when reading, whether textbook or fiction.
I could imagine interestingly if a thriller involved the subject of school and school stress – that it is the vehicle for your ideas and experiences.
At least a lot of success!
Actually, I’ve been thinking about this idea. It should be a girl suffering from constant pressure and pressure to adapt in school. However, I did not know how to write the turning point, that is, the point where the whole situation is to become worse.
Would you have an idea?
Honestly, that should be your idea and not mine.
Sit down and write up ideas, whether logical or absurd, make sketches… if you actively deal with it, it will come
Of course you’re right. Thank you for your help
I don’t have so much experience with books on this topic (I’m writing more towards fantasy), but maybe you could write a kind of diary. Of course, you write about thoughts and feelings and you could write about school stress without it sounding like a guide. It is also not particularly difficult to write like a diary, especially if you have experience. If you’ve never written a diary, try it for a shorter time and if you don’t have any trouble, you can try it with such a book. But of course it is also important not to think too much about the readers. I hope that was helpful.
Your tip was very helpful, thank you. I write diary myself, but I haven’t come to this idea yet.
I’m sorry, I didn’t want to rate this negative, I unintentionally clicked…
All right. (if you click on it again, the rating goes away again)
This may not be the answer you want to hear… but if you don’t have a story that you really want to tell and behind which you stand full, then I’d just wait until I have one and then look that I get on paper.
In the end, the impression of the first sentence is drawn through the whole article. You’re interested in writing, but you don’t have any history you want to tell… and that’s the end of the point.
Sure, I could give you ideas now, but these are stories I want to tell. And to plan something like that, then to write down takes months to go… so long you shouldn’t be stuck behind something you’re not convinced of.
Which one? The one with the thriller speaks only to the genre. I find it interesting when you prepare it well. That’s the idea you’ve developed most, because you just lack the idea of setting, characters, etc.
I think I could work with it. Taking a topic with which you know well is definitely a good approach, as you save a little research work. In addition, I assume that the characters are about to be in your age group, which is also good, because such people can probably be a little better understood than a toddler.
I would not like to raise it here as a ‘Listen to the thoughts of young people’, but to create a character that shares or possibly reflects your thoughts.
There is a very good documentary on Youtube about the preparation of South Korean pupils to the university admission test, in which it is repeatedly said or indicated that this pressure deprives children of the youth.
Here I actually find it relatively interesting what would happen with a character (which does not have to come from South Korea, that is a widespread problem) that ultimately either fails or recognizes that academic achievements are not as important to him as friends or the family.
And if you have such a base, so you have a basic theme, then you can build on it.
Even with the genre. For example, if any student attends a school with high power pressure that someone on this basis ‘you took my youth, now I’m taking your future’ is planning an amoklauf and then joins someone else to stop the perpetrator on their own, then you could also go into this ‘intermediate’ direction, which you might have with a thriller or criminal.
Of course you can also cover many other genres… Coming of Age can be done well because just priorities must be set and responsibility must be taken over, Romance can be done well anyway… Fantasy IST is possible, you can always give the magic opportunity, e.g. to turn back time and change decisions or the like.
But as I said, there is quite a lot of things possible and you can also decide freely whether you want to go towards A or direction B.
Then you won’t let anyone tell you what you have to do, because that’s your decision. No, it’s not gonna be all better through a love story.
If Andrea and Bert go together to search for the potential amok runner in their own final class, then Bert may of course stand on Andrea, but it should not be so central because that is not tolerable to the tension if so long is thematized.
In this sense… what you need is an idea for a story that you really want to tell and that suits YOU. Not necessarily for me, not necessarily for Andrea from opposite 🙂
I hope I could:) If you still have to ask, we can talk about the comments and of course I am always grateful for feedback.
I definitely wish you all the best for your project and a beautiful and relaxed Christmas time 🙂
Oh yes… and if it really shouldn’t work with the ideas… stay curious, inform yourself, maybe do something outside the line like a long walk, stay with friends or the like.
Good ideas for stories you want to tell you can really jump from ABOUTALL and at any time 🙂
write a novel about school stress.