What exactly could the book be about?

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Felix, an introverted student, navigates the ups and downs of everyday life. He must learn to deal with his self-doubt, his emotions, and the expectations of others. The story shows how he must make decisions that shape him, balancing loyalty and his own needs—and how he slowly finds his place in the world.

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shinyuke
4 months ago
  • Heights and depths of everyday life
  • Self-doubt, feelings, expectations
  • Loyalty, own needs, decisions

These are good content for a story. But if you want to write these stories, you also need to make a head of how to put these elements in a story to create a tension sheet so that the reader is kept in a mood.

The idea sounds interesting even if it’s not new. But, as you seem to be quite new in the creative writing, I would recommend you to read and work with some writers. Because creative writing is a craft (and hard, head-loaded work) that you learn. It helps to read a lot in the genre where you write, so you get a good feeling for what works and what does not.

Pseud000
4 months ago

Sounds for me after a Young Adult or Coming of Age History, where it’s a little about getting grown up slowly.

You have already named the overarching themes:

  • Heights and depths of everyday life
  • Self-doubt & feelings vs expectations of others.
  • loyalty vs needs

I think it’s great that you have such overarching motives, that there are books always a certain depth, but how concrete are these overarching stories in your novel?

This can be implemented in various scenarios. Examples here:

  1. In addition to his everyday life, a young student builds up a career as an esporter, but fights with self-doubts with regard to his future and the expectations that the family and society put on him – he should learn something clever. It is in the tension between loyalty to its sponsors and at the same time its own needs, in particular mental health. Besides, friends complain to him that he’s coming too short.
  2. A young student falls in love with an exchange student and navigates with her the heights and depths of everyday life. He struggles with his self-image and does not dare, but feels something for them and fights with social expectations due to cultural differences. He has to arrange his needs in the relationship and still wants to remain loyal to his best friend.

In both cases, I have given different scenarios for the exact same motives. You already have the motives, now only a concrete scenario and a way to combine scenarios and motifs.