Tuesday, May 4, 2010

My novel

I have read many novels and some of them I liked, while others I did not. I would try to take aspects of the novels that I did like and try to incorporate them into my own novel.
My novel would be pretty stereotypical (I have to admit). I would begin with to girls, Taylor and Bekah who are best friends. They do everything together and can even finish each others sentences. Then a bump in this smooth road appears in the form of a transfer student. This student is a gorgeous boy whom both girls like. At first they bond over this boy. They talk about him and tell made up stories of what it would be like if he was their boyfriend. Everything seemed fine until he started to like Bekah. This causes a rift between their friendship. Taylor get jealous and slowly starts to hang out with Bekah less and less. Taylor's whole personality changes for the worst. She begins to hang out with the wrong crowd and persuades her new friends to bully Bekah. Bekah does not understand why Taylor cannot just be happy that she is happy. Bekah is so happy with her boyfriend and they are truly in love; however she is sad because she has lost her best friend. This is the main conflict of the novel, which is whether she should choose her friendship or her relationship with her boyfriend. Bekah decides her boyfriend is more important and gives up on taylor. When Taylor is mean to Bekah, Bekah and her boyfriend retaliate back at Taylor worse then one could ever imagine. They spill her most personal secretes and spread rumors about her around the school. The novel will reach its climax with Taylor pulling a final prank exposes the evil side of Bekah and her befriend. Taylor comes up with a plan to show Bekah just how mean she has truly become and how her boyfriend is the cause of it. In the end the boy friend ends up betraying Bekah and leaving her alone in at a time when she needs him the most. Taylor feels bad for Bekah because she realizes just how lost she truly is and how she has no one left to help her. Bekah realizes how horrible a person her boyfriend is and leaves him. She runs to Taylor apologizing and Taylor forgives her. Taylor's life begins to reform and she stops being a trouble maker. She turns back slowly, with Bekah's help, into the sweet girl she once was. Bekah also turns back into her old self; however both girls are wiser and more mature. They make a pact that the next time they like the same guy neither girl will go out with him. This pact holds and both girls begin their senior year of high school. Everything has been fine between the two girls and their relationship is better then ever. As they enter in to their math class for the first time they look around and spot an unfamiliar face. It is an old friend that has grown up quite nicely. They turn and look at each other. Taylor smiles and jokingly say "dibs"; however taylor wasn't really joking. The end.


The plot in an overview would be two best friends who have something come between them. The tension builds up between the two friends until they are no longer friends. They fight and they fight until the tension or conflict is so great that they reach the climax of the worst prank and the failure of the boy friend. Then there is the reforming of friendship and the happy ever after, or so they think. The end!

1 comment:

  1. Your teen novel sounds really good. I think it would make a really good movie too. I would enjoy reading and writing it because I lost a couple friends myself during that transition from middle school to high school and some of those friendships I was able to mend and some I was not. I think a lot of teens would enjoy your book because teen tend to read books that they are able to relate too. I am sure if teenager girls have not already went through the situation of liking the same boy as your best friend they will. I have been in a similar situation I did not lose a friend over it but I got my feelings hurt. The happy ending was a really good touch after all that teenage drama. The conflict itself really adds the right amount of teenage drama for a novel it’s not too much or too little it is just enough. I think your story need some more characters though because you know teenagers normally have many influences in their life; rather its peers or adult figures at school.

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