Questions

Ideas (with the random titles I came up with…):
Rory - girl whose life has slowly been falling apart is starting to notice weird things happening. Discovers over time that she has been born with time-altering abilities. I have the background of the story almost completely fleshed out, but the characters are iffy and so is the actual plot.
Rossy - oddball boy goes on a journey of self-discovery and helps the people around him do the same. Very coming-of-age type story, going to be extremely sad. I have the plot sketched out, but the characters are iffy.
Delusions of the Naked Mind - another coming-of-age type story, with the idea that there’s a school out that’s…boarding school/mental institution/juvenile hall. It’s where parents send their depressed and misbehaving kids when they’re not insane and haven’t committed a serious crime. I have the characters, but the plot is iffy and I kinda wanna hold out to write this when I have more teenage experience to draw off of.
Black Parade Based - inspired by the album “The Black Parade”, this is one of those very morbid, doomed-from-the-beginning story ideas centering mostly around relationships and death. I have the characters and plot, but not much life experience, and it may be too short.

I need to decide this quickly so I have time to flesh the idea out.
So. Opinions?

(oh by the way, this is totally mine; steal the ideas, you pay. >.<
© 2009 Beware of Bookworm.
There.)
- Beware of Bookworm

Please give me some details or a plot and some action about a studious college student. Maybe his background (parents,siblings, race, friends) or just his personality. My paper doesn’t have to be long, only about 2 pages but I just need a jump start. The story has to be happy and light and airy, and not somber. Thanks in advance!
- Natalie

The background of the story is that a young jewish boy gets ***?parated from his mother when he is ***?nt to a ghetto and she is ***?nt to a concentration camp. The quest of the story is that they both try and live through the war and try and find eachother if they ever get out. I would like to start the introduction ***? the boy talking about the conditions of the ghetto, then reverse ***?me and go to how he got there.

The end of the story will be for you to find out… (:
- ***?dfh meghan

I am doing a one-shot Moulin Rouge fan fic on Satine’s background before the Moulin Rouge and how she came to be there? Any ideas?
- Jodie K

I wrote this poem for my husband, to celebrate our one year anniversary that’s coming up. I know it’s nothing spectacular but it does come from my heart. What do you think? A little background, I told my husband I was going to write him a poem and he said “make it from the heart.” LOL. That explains the first line.

You say you want it from the heart
Yet you know as well as I
That you have my heart within your grasp
And that you can’t deny.
You see my heart is in your hands,
Just open up and see
I gave it to you a year ago,
And you gave yours to me.

I am so much a part of you
That I feel we intertwine.
And it’s difficult to explain to you
What mere words cannot define.

I feel you in every part of me
Down to my very soul.
You’re in the very heart of me
You’re the part that makes me whole.
- college_student

Is there a site or anything that can brainstorm a good character name as well as something that inspire a few notes on a character’s background?
- Josh J

My background: I have never written a short story or novel before, but I have the confidence and past education and writing experience from school to be able to try my best!

I have wanted to write a novel for many years now. Before sitting down and getting to work on it, I have lately been toying with the idea of just doing a short story.

But of course I have dreams of being published. (This is not my main motivation, of course, but I figure if I’m going to spend a good portion of my time and effort on this, I might as well try to get published - if it’s good enough!)

So, should I spend the time and effort doing a short story? Can any money be made off of short stories as opposed to novels? Would it be worth the extra work to do a novel? Also, if I wrote a short story, in the future could it successfully be expanded into a novel? Have any famous works of literature ever started as a short story and ended up as a novel?

I know this is a lot, but thanks for your time!
- Bernie J

I need to write a short story 2-3 pages long about 2 people from different backgrounds (races) who help each other.

Any ideas would be helpful.
- Jason

I have just finished the first draft to a novel that has taken me 3 years to write. I have had no writing training and was wondering if anyone else out there has self published without a writing background. I also only ever intended the novel to be a film, but realise I have to get the story down first. Has anyone else done this?
- veg_hel