need ideas! writing a book/novel over the summer!?

Question

so like i wanna become a writer one day. so my project for summer is writing a teeen novel. any ideas? i'm opned to anything intersting!

Answer 1

Your life, and all that you notice about anyone's life around you, should be a good start for a new writer wanting to write a 'teen novel.'



Reading good books, going to public places simply to observe people around you, silently taking a few notes, and practicing writing short work on 'what you know' first, will all help you.



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http://www.creativewritingprompts.com

It's free.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Your problem doesn't seem to be organization. Your problem is: "I have ADHD and can't stay focused for the writing." Seek treatment for this. If you don't somehow discipline yourself to sit down and write then you will never finish a single story you begin. If that's not an option, then write for a limited amount of time each day. If you can only focus for 15 minutes a day on that idea, then do it. Go back the next day and pick up where you left off. Either way, you have to come *back* to this story and add to it in order to progress in the writing. As for the ideas: organize them, try to combine certain ideas into one story, and outline the story ahead of time so that your attention won't waver due to momentary "writers block." Stick to the outline but feel free to use creative license here and there so long as you don't deviate too much from the outline. Finally, draw up a schedule. Right now, you have far too much on your plate. How do you expect to read 40 books, work on your art work, write poetry, and write novels when you can't even finish one of the six novels you started? Allocate your time for each and return to them each day so that you progress (albeit slowly..but you progress nonetheless). Good luck.

Answer 3

If it's supposed to be your project..then shouldn't you pick the story? Oh well..ideas..fantasy, romance, action, adventure, thriller, suspense, mystery, comedy, tragedy, historical fiction, non fiction, biography, autobiography, poems.. there's all kinds of topics you can choose and mismatch with. Have fun with it! Try to stick to it. It could help to make an outline before you start writing. Try for something original, make your own story, not copy from somebody else's. Good luck!

Answer 4

If you want to become a writer you have to come up with your own ideas. just sit and think in complete silence until you have thought of an idea. then when that fails go and live your life as normal as possible and an idea will just come to you. hope this helps.

Answer 5

I like to write stories also for fun, but like you I have ideas but not a complete one. But if your more clever then I. I like stories that have various characters who run in and out of each other lives obliviously. Like in the movie Traffic or Crashed...I always wanted to write a stoy liked that but you might be better at it. i hope it gives you a clue in what you wanna do.

Answer 6

DON'T.



Just DON'T do it... at least not yet.



A person can only really write what they know. That is what they always tell you in writing class right?



So... when a young person thinks they want to become a writer they start writing what they know...but the only thing they know is what it is like to be a young upper-middle class white kid in an American Suburb...becuase that is what most of writer wannabes are.



Then they go on to college and become English majors... and produce HORRID novels that are all set in college english departments. Murder in the English department... romance in the English Department... insufferable self-important upper middle class white kids who take themselves WAY to seriously sitting around talking in English departments and thinking they are profound...UGH!



The poor people who have to read (and then reject) their manuscripts suffer so much...ugh...



DONT BE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE!!!



My advice is to go do what Jack London did... and to a lesser extent Hemmingway.



BEFORE you try to write about life ...GO LIVE IT.



Take a road trip. Get a job. Go become a waitress at a Mexican Resturant and become friends with your co-workers and learn about their lives. Volunteer at a homeless shelter and Hang out with poor people. Volunteer at the Musuem and learn to Hang out with Rich people. Speaking of Volunteer go Volunteer at a V.A. hospital and get to know some shot up Marines...THAT will teach you a lot about life! Help build a Habatat for Humanity house. Go to church. Go to five different Churches. Go to Synogogoe. Do a police "ride along" program and learn what it is like to be a cop. Get a couple of friends and drive around town ALL night, hop from one coffee shop to another till dawn, and see what and who you meet. Go tour a fire station. Go hang out at the airport, watch people coming off the planes, and make up stories about them... who they are, where they are going, and why. Go learn how to shoot a gun. Hang with an Air Force Recuiter for a couple of days. Eat foods from six countries you can't find on a map. Learn how to belly dance. Volunteer at Republican Headquarters for a week... then go volunteer at Democratic Headquareters for a week. Go rock climbing. Read a really hard classic book you normally wouldn't...like Plato or Aristotle. Take some martial arts classes. Go downtown and sit in a court room for three days and watch some trials. Wear a really sexy bathing suit to the pool. Adopt a cat.



Above all... meet people and LISTEN TO THEIR STORIES. Listen, listen, listen, and listen.



When you are done...and ONLY when you are done doing that.. THEN write your novel. THEN you will have something to write about that will be worth reading.

Answer 7

Rewrite your favorite story in a different setting. I once read a sci fi version of Jane Eyre by Sharon Shinn I think, that was really good!

Answer 8

i see people keep telling you to come up with your own ideas...but a lot of writers find ideas or from real life...try reading the paper or news websites you can get inspiration there...

Answer 9

umm... you can do one about a summer fling about a guy and a girl or you can make a school story about a new girl dating the most popular guy in the school and how she ends up moving and dates a different guy..... i seriously don't know but hope this helped!

Answer 10

to be a writer, you have to come up with your own ideas. otherwise, you aren't really writing to the best of your ability. try sleeping on it and see what comes to mind, that's where i get writing ideas, yay for dreams!