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I need help finding a good topic to write about. Help please?
I want to write , i feel like ive been reading a lot and i want to experience writting. Can someone please give me ideas?? I want to write about romance mainly, but i cant get a good start, or a good plot no matter how much i try. Writter's block i guess... I have written short stories before but none about romance. Please help!
Sorry about the spelling "writing" wrong, it was a type-o. Thanks for the help.
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
As a student writer, I wrote a 7 Chapter book about a dream I had the night before. I was real scared at first of what people would think about it. My family and friends loved it. I could send you a copy. This could give you some ideas. Plus, when I usually write, I play some kind of music. It really helps me concentrate. Hope this helps.
- 1 decade ago
Your life is the best short story you will ever read - plagiarize it. Take a romantic episode in your life and build from it. Feel free to change all the facts, your writing fiction not a biography. Almost everything I have ever written has a kernel of truth to it. I take something that actually happened and weave a story around it. Once you start writing you will be surprised how the story will take a life of its own and write itself.
When that being said:
High school sweet hearts, class of 2001, are planning to marry in October. Nine-eleven happens, the boy decides to do his part, postpone the wedding and join the military. She is not happy. She gives him an ultimatum - the wedding is off unless he postpones joining the fight until after the long planned wedding. Caught up in the patriotism and hysteria of the moment he joins right away. Profoundly disappointed she breaks up with him. Out of spite she refuses to see him when he comes home from basic training and even arranges for him to see her with someone else - the boys rival for her affection. Saturday he leaves for Fort Bragg by bus, heartbroken. She too is heartbroken, upset with herself for behaving the way she did. In the middle of night she wakes up, throws rocks at the rivals bedroom window to wake him up, cause he has a car. She convinces him to help her catch up with the boys bus. In a small town they catch the bus just pulling into a stop. She runs onto the bus and embraces him. They embrace, the other passengers cheer. The rival offers to drive them both to Fort Bragg, so that they will have time to stop and get married on the way. (The rival could be a good Sidney Carelton type character - loves the girl so much he will sacrifice his own happinees for hers - or maybe it was jst a high school crush thing and he wasn't really that into her anyway)
Hope that helps spark something for you. Good luck.
- barracuda.Lv 41 decade ago
Yay for Mrs. Edward Cullen!! Haha. Anyways, I think you should just write about how you feel that day, almost like a journal entry, and then once you start doing that... your writing evolves into something magical. I'm only 12-years-young and I always quit every story I wrote. I still do, but not as frequently. Then I started to forget about writing stories and went on to writing in my diary. Once I started doing journal work, I began to expand my forms of writing and now I write just about everything. So I just suggest writing a journal for awhile until you know you're ready to take on something as scary as a big, fat book like Twilight.
- 1 decade ago
if you're going to write, please spell "writing" correctly.
for romance, start with what the characters will be like, and little idiosyncrasies about each that might make the story interesting. an interesting way for the two to meet, and some obstacles along the way. sry i can't be specific, but its your story anyway :)
and don't make it cliche or obvious that the 2 will definitely get together. make the obstacles interesting...
good luck!
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- 1 decade ago
Well I'm guessing you like twilight from your name so write about fantasy love for example vampire and human but don't be too much like twilight cause that will just ruin it
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Um, I don't think you would enjoy writing if you wrote what other people want you to write it... it'd be labored, not for joy.. that's probably just an excuse because I don't have any ideas :)
- Anonymous1 decade ago
why families turn against each other when theres a death.