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Question: I'm writing a book!.!.!.I need some advice!!?
Okay I know I've asked this question like a million times!. But I really need some more feedback on my story!. Here is my story plot!. Please be honest in your opinion!.

Rosie Stonell is a soon-to-be seventeen year old girl in Concrete High School!. She is very unsure of herself!. She doesn't complain that much, and she is very silent!. Her two best friends, Carmen Blake and Lukas Tucker are the only two of the three people that keep her alive!. Rosie is passionately in love with her best friend, Luke!. They have been friends for thirteen years and her feeling for him continue to grow, but he doesn't know that Rosie feels that way!. In this book, Rosie dies in a car accident but after her heart stopped for several hours, it started beating again, and she "touched heaven" and recieved a gift!.!.!.that was a gift as much as it was a nightmare!. She uses this gift to save her friends from the disastrous things that happen to them!. What will happen if someone important finds out about Rosie's gift!?


If you like my plot and you would like to read the preface, please add me, then message me!. I need all the opinions I can get! Thank you so much!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Hi there!! Okay, first off!.!.!.great story! The plot sounds interesting!. I think (and this is just from what you posted) that Rosie is very much like a common protagonist!. If anything, do the beginning like a flashback (so the reader can see what she was like before her gift through her eyes)!. Put some twists so it doesn't sound like a generic teen story almost!.

Next! Someone *always* finds out about someone's "special gift!." ALWAYS! It usually is someone you don't want to know!. (In your plot!.!.!.it wouldn't be like Rosie's most evil enemy, but rather someone annoying and who wants to use it as leverage - possibly a romantic rival!.)

My suggestion: go through and read what you have so far, then analyze it!. In the "Scream" movies, you have Jamie Kennedy's character (Randy Meeks) listing the rules of every horror movie!. Who dies, who won't, and the order everything happens!.!.!.including the twist at the end!. Look up other stories in your same genre, then create a list like this!. If you have too many similarities, you know what things you can work with to make it more of your own voice!. (Trust me, there is nothing worse than pouring your heart and soul into a story and then seeing that someone else has already done it!)

Your story is awesome! I wish you the very best of luck! Writer to writer, I know you can do it!
~SakiWww@QuestionHome@Com

This sounds really interesting - your idea has a lot of potential!.

A few questions though !.!.!.

What is Rosie's gift!? This is obviously a key part of the story, and will no doubt be important to the climax at the end!. How are you planning on introducing it to the readers!? How does Rosie learn that her gift is also a nightmare!?

also, why is Rosie unsure of herself!? How does the gift fit in with this uncertainty!?

And will Luke eventually fall in love with Rosie!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

that sounds good! only thing is i'd take out someone IMPORTANT and possibally change the high school's name!. these are just details but they contribute alot to the book!!! (she's known luke since she was 4!?!!?!!? id say since 11 or something!.!.!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

It sounds great! An idea for the gift if you hadn't thought of one yet could be claraudio so she can hear things from far distances and is able to track them down!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I like the idea, it's very original!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Some people don't write what the "gift" would be or any thing so ppl would read the book to find outWww@QuestionHome@Com

Other than jebwyy (or w/e) being crazy, he/she is right - this sounds really cliched!. Not in a good way!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

you seem like a beautiful writer the way you say your stories is very elegant!.!.!.love the idea best of luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

sounds amazing but i would like to know what this gift isWww@QuestionHome@Com

Luke and Rosie could have known each other since they were four if they were neighbors or if their parents were friends or any number of reasons!. They don't even necessarily have to have lived in the same place all their lives that way!. Is Concrete the name of the town where she lives!? Then it would be a perfectly acceptable name for a school!. (I went to two elementary schools in different towns as a child and both were called Woodside Elementary because they were near trees!. Maybe your high school was once an old factory having to do with concrete before it was remodeled!.)

Anyway!. On to your actual question!. Important, like her doctor or mother or a teacher or a friend!? Or a reporter who does a huge article that no one but the book's villian/antagonist takes seriously, thus leading to danger for Rosie!?

Note: Rosie was dead for several hours!? Not minutes!? Is this common knowlegde to the people around her!? Is the length of time she was dead related to how she got her powers!? Sorry, I think in questions!.

Good luck!Www@QuestionHome@Com

cliche and overused!. ill rewrite it for you

Rosie Stonell is a soon-to-be seventeen year old girl in Concrete High School!. She has brain damage from sucking in the helium from balloons as a child instead of eating!. Her two best friends, Carmen Blake and Lukas Tucker are the only two of the three people that keep her alive, because she is on life support because of her enormous head uses 1/2 of her blood which doesn't get enough oxygen around to other parts of her body!. Rosie is passionately in love with her best friend, Luke, who at the beginning of the story lights himself on fire accidently (don't worry at the end of the story she puts him out and then they have sex)!. They have been friends for thirteen years and her feeling for him continue to grow, but he doesn't know that Rosie feels that way, not that he's thinking about it!. He's thinking about the enraged flames that have engulfed his entire body!. In this book, Rosie dies because Luke accidentally unplugs her life support while running around on fire, and after her heart stopped for several years, it started beating again, and she "touched heaven" and recieved a gift!.!.!.that was a gift as much as it was a nightmare!. She uses this gift to save her friends from the disastrous things that happen to them!. What will happen if someone important finds out about Rosie's gift!?

her gift is the ability to put out fires!. people are like "rosie! become a fire man!" and she's like "hell no, i've always wanted to be a spaceman"Www@QuestionHome@Com