Need help with forming characters for my book. Teen answers only please..?

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I think the best resource to go to regarding a teen novel is to go to teens for an answer!  So far you all have given me excellent responses on my other questions.  (You kids are great and I am impressed by your collective wisdom.)  I need your help once again...

 I am trying to develop characters for my story.  I already have my story subject outlined, and I thought I was going with a female teen as the focus with her mother and grandmother being minor characters.  (close family) However, according to literary magazines, the story should focus on the teen not the adults  in a "Young Adult" novel, but I have given her no one to talk to except her mother which would make mom a main character as well.  (And realistically, teens really do not speak that deeply with their parents, at least mine doesn't.)  So, I came up with some alternatives.  Which would teens be more apt to read?:

1. Two sisters who are complete opposites, usually fighting, having to go through an adventure together, but learning to trust each other through it all.
2. A sister and a best friend (still opposites one as a tomboy the other as a girly girl), going through the adventure.
3. A boy (and the two sisters), who has been a childhood friend of the "tomboy" sister, but has a crush on the girly girl sister but through the adventure finds that he is now drawn to the tomboy sister because of her inner strength and wisdom.( Or has this theme been done too much?)
4. Mom and grandma as main characters (who has been through this adventure before) with the two 
sisters and know how to lead them out of it, and they all become close because of it.
5. Mom, Grandma, the two sisters and the boy all as main characters.

Once I get some good feedback I can start writing my book.  Also, all the teen characters will be 17-18.   I need as many replies as possible, so please tell your friends to help as well.   Thanks again..:-)

avacadocheese · Accepted Answer

i'm 17 so yer-----

1. no, sorry i hate the unrealisticness of those stories - i have a sister and i know many sisters who would never have an experience like that. could go for it if you want but i wouldn't go near it
2. bit overdone but it could work
3. yer it has 
4. no
5, definately not

i don't mean to be nasty but i think you need to try something else. this may appeal to young teens but not the older ones. sounds horrid but these are all a bit cliche. if you want to go for any of them then people will read it but if you want to do more then write books for 13yr old gilrs you need a bit more of an edge and try something that hasn' t been done a million times before.

sorry - this sounds like i'm trying to be horrible and i'm not. this is just my opinion and hope some of it helps.

good luck :)

So I say goodnight · Answer

1. Um, I don't know. I have a sister and we don't get on well, so my answer might be biased.
2. I like this one better than the first. I would be able to relate more. 
3. How about he has a crush on the tomboy sister, but the changes to the girly-girl?
4. That would be too boring.
5. That might cause some interesting situations... but I don't think teens will be prone to reading it.

Anonymous · Answer

Well, i like the idea of having a tomboy as one of the characters. Maybe you could have two sisters, a year or two apart as twins can be quite predictable and are quite overused in young adult books. One could be a tomboy and one could be the girly, popular, favorite one but their mother could talk more with the tomboy? But this is just my opinion. A mother should be involved and a conflict between the sisters, whether its over a boy involved or over something else. 
Hoped i helped.

Anonymous · Answer

Great inspiration! I adore it, despite the fact that it kind of feels kinda cliche one way or the other. Boy meets lady by way of forces causes after which they fall in love? Meh. Boring. But then you definitely further the aspect with Tony liking piano and Charlie having to make a option and stuff. Makes for a fairly giant twist for the reason that seeing that it is reputedly cliche readers would possibly not count on the unforeseen bit. Unfortunatey I suck at tale recommendations however Mayr you must upload some thing approximately the pianos? Like "Melody ...." or some thing to that outcome. "Keys of ...." (I do not wanna say love.) I do not believe they must date or something for the reason that it is in the entire books now: Tony and Charlie appear larger off and flawlessly completely happy as peers. To be sincere I hate the identify Tony for a few intent. It feels like you are making an attempt too rough to get a "jock" identify if you recognize what I imply, that's lovely ridiculous when you consider that no mother and father might understand whether or not their little one might develop as much as be a jock or now not..except the dad is a few soccer crazed man who wishes his son to "comply with in his footsteps" or some thing lol.

? · Answer

How about 'she' does the adventure by her self with faceless people (somewhat like dreams were they people are there and the faces aren't) and just make it all imaginary.
anyways
#1 I don't like, i think sisters should be close
#2 That's me and my sister.. :(
#3 I think i have been done too much.
#4 Wisdom... that's all that comes to mind :)
#5 :T

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