Hey, I been writing a book about aboy who tried to shoot up his school but stopped becuase an teacher attacked him and locked him in his trunk.(<—– that's the main part of chapter one)
I have hand writed the frist 3 chapters before realizing I should write a chapter by chapter main objective and details to keep the book going along……..I did this for the first book
I also realized that after I typed it I became far smaller than I expected it to be (way shorter)
So I rewrote the first 4/40 pages handwritten (<—- the amount of pages I aming for per chapter….but it only equal to 10 pages tryed )
But the promble is I need to build a back story, and a personality …. From the main charecter point of view.
Well I guess you can't much help unless you know more about the main charecter. So I will inform you of what I have.
The main cherecter traits, feelings….
1. He can easly read other people feelings towards things
2. He offtend see others as brainless cows following wheat.
3. He is deeply saddened by the ingnorects, and stuburness of the world…
4. He hates the fact that he can't save any from anything.
5. He is also hates the fact that e can't love any one more than anyone eles
6. He is sick of this world, he thinks peace is dumb, but he also thinks that every body is better off dead,
7. He wonder way more people don't kill there selves or Itheres.
9. He dreams about others deaths and his own deathall the time even when a awake
Now , back to what I need help with, their ore five cherecters that the main cherecter passes on the way area where the rest of his equipment is at. And the main cherecter is super paranoid. But he knows no one supectes him of anything, but he supectes all five of him of walking their own path sudicidle .
1. Is the teacher thar stops his killings , this I don't need much help with but all advice loved.(this cherecter is a main one )
2. A female teacher
3.a boy student who turns out to be the boys best friend in chapter 3 ( I don't need much help with him either)
4. A girl student
5. A janitor
*note* that all details witless have to seems like a assumption the main cherecter will assume about the others that he passed in the hall way.
I am sorry about all the grammar, typos , and spelling errors. I have to be quick I don't have Internet at my home ……I just need to post it…. I could read the comments later….If there is any lol
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Hello, I work for the F.B.I. and what is your current location?
Don’t worry someone12. I am not a killer I won’t harm a fly ……lol actually I really hate killing bugs…it feels wrong….., I am living to help people…one day I want to open my own school system…..I a not going to kill others for my stupidity , maybe my self but not Itheres lol
I write stories to. You should post some of the story for us to read. And since its technically about suicide, its possible it want get deleted. Could the girl student be someone he likes maybe?
There would be a love interst, but I don’t want to make all the all five of the charecters he meet to be very inportant, thre of the five will be very important all ready……but I will thank about it…….if the girl turns out to be a love interst It will probably go well with the story.
Maybe I will post some, maybe I will write a short story for this site. Buts it’s going to take a while to write,post becuase I trying to keep on a tight schedule till I get the rigth Act scoar,I audition for honor band, and till I reach my goal weigth. Lol if my mom didn’t make me come over to my grand mother house I would proably die of starvation, and sleepiness
I would love to read yor stories, I will cheack to see if you posted some after this, of you didn’t please post.
A writers passaision is very incredible and I thank you for both commenting and helping.
When you describe your characters, make sure the main character can relate with them, giving them a back story can be hard if they don’t fit in with the rest of the story. Maybe create a scene that shows all the characters a week before the shooting. Give the teacher a past history too, that would motivate him to take action in the situation. Make his life hard to imagine living. Give the whole school an event that everyone is talking about leading up to the shooting, like a dance. to keep a readers attention, all actions must build off eachother in relation to where the story is going. But don’t go too deep into every character, so the reader can still tell who the main character is. Dont let your characters get stuck in one place too long..it drags the story. Sounds like a good story though. I would take a whole year to properly research your characters, give them real traits from actual people you’ve known or read about. Do your research on school shootings, get real facts and implement them in your story with your own twists. And don stop creating. when youve worked on one chapter and finished, go back ad write more when your done, there is always more you can say. Hope that helps
Thank you for your advice . I will probably rescreach a lot more in to the human mind, and events that happened in the past that could relate o what I am writing about,
I knew I needed too from the bargaining but I was kinds in a rush to finsh writing by November… But at this rate that’s not going to happen so I migth at well ake it even better.
Once I am done with the frist two books I will really like to get it published. If I can’t I will just post it online or something.
Thanks a lot about the advice about nothing going too deep in to the non main character…..I struggle a lot on that part ……and looking back on the work I done so far it’s probably making the story drag on on the unnessary.
Your words help a lot thanks again realtalk30
Thanks for sharing! 🙂