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Question: Would this be a good novel!?
I am so sorry for asking all these questions but i am a a bestselling writer and i am having major writers block so i would really like every ones input on all the questions i am asking!.!.!.!.!.!.!.it takes place in the 1940 's in a suburb near Detroit!.!.!.!.!.a young woman about 16 is part of a wealthy family her dad is a big executive of the Ford Motor company she is set for life!.!.!.!.!.!.when her spastic mother fires the help and hires a new attractive young man she falls in love with him!.!.!.!.!.she is forbidden to see him so she has to decide between her heart or her family!.!.!.!.!.!.please please give me advice about what you thinkWww@QuestionHome@Com
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If you place it in the forties you can't ignore the war!. Late forties you have people returning from the war and Ford is attempting to break the union's gains, because they have plenty of labor again!. Early forties you have the shift to a war footing and then the war itself, which means a lot of new people in town to work the war industries (a lot of blacks moved north at this time!.)
Either way you can't ignore it as background, although using the draft as Deus Ex Machina at this point is a major cliche!. Maybe the guy is a refugee, a German, or even Japanese!. I can't think of a white girl with a Japanese guy romance, although you can find plenty of the opposite!.
You could work in Ford's well known antisemitism or the violence involved in the formation of the UAW in the late thirties (the Flint sit down strike & the battle of the overpass)!.
Why not work the usual tortured love angle by giving the guy some sort of connection to the union or labor organization!? Romeo and Juliet, yet again!.
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I think it needs a bit of work!.
A few questions that come to mind for me are:
What's a young man doing working as a domestic during WWII!?
Why is the girl forbidden to see the guy, is it just because of class!?
As it is right now it sounds like a little like a cheesy grocery store romance!. There is the potential for a great story but I think the plot needs to have more meat on the bones!. There isn't enough conflict!. there needs to be more at stake than missy not getting her poor boyfriend!. Www@QuestionHome@Com
It's great!. It's a classical, maybe even old-fashioned love story!. I can see how you're a bestselling writer! :)
All you need now is to read it, and add the details!. I want to know what happens and what she chooses! Www@QuestionHome@Com
that sounds really cool but before she chooses there are lots of secret meetings and such right!? and she has to be sure that he is THE ONE!.!.!.so i think it should be a dramatic romantic with a bittersweet ending kind of story!.!.!.but nice ideaWww@QuestionHome@Com
If you really were a bestselling author then 1!. You wouldn't be on YA and 2!. Your writing skills wouldn't be so atrocious!. No respectable writer I know would ever write like this nor would they be asking if their plot idea would make a good novel!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Sounds like a great idea, but you should have the young man turn out to be a vampire!. Or maybe a werewolf!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It sounds like it would be a really good classical love story!.
I would totally read it start writing =) Www@QuestionHome@Com
I think it sounds interesting, the kind of book I would read!. Start writing!Www@QuestionHome@Com
i would read it and i bearly read i love romantic books that have drama and this book sees amazingWww@QuestionHome@Com
sounds good what other books have u writtenWww@QuestionHome@Com