Writers support discussion

Stink bomb?

First hand experience from my dad's boarding school days:
General pranks:
• Short-Sheeting a bed
• Laying dog hair on a pillow to make character tink they're going bald
• Write obscene letters in made-up / other language
• Being generally loud
• Answering questions in a stupid way
• Sneaking out
• Pulling something over on the dorm leader
I hope this helps!
Keep writing and have fun!
Eve

At Girl Scout Camp, we are now being forced to camp with the older, 15-18 year olds.
What they did to us, was wrap out beds in cellophane. Like, a lot. So it took us roughly 45 minutes to unwrap our bed. They also strung string all around the room, hanging our underwear and bras from the string. -_- I thought they were supposed to be the mature ones....

Nice!

Cool, I've heard some kids take the heads off Barbies and stick a firecracker in their body, and then flush them down the toliet.

o. O Barbie shrapnel....

Since he is going to be good in the end, I think you can do all the teasing and tricks you want but you need to remember to give him some good qualities. He needs to either do something nice or have a past that we feel sorry for and that's why he does what he does.

Rick
Self-Publishing

Are there any good websites where you can put the traits of your charrie and it makes a charrie for you? I like to be able to find pics or make pics of my charries before writing about them, but i can't find any websites that are good.

True.

Well, I think it sounds fine, Many people laugh even after someone important passes away. I think it is good though that you have her crying sometimes, just not all the time.

First of all, I'd suggest making the first week of so of your character's sorrow devoted at least mostly to the death. If she is being skirted off to a boarding school, she may have bouts about leaving her grandmother's body. Slip in little sad touching moments through out the first little while after the death. But in truth, life goes on after someone you love dies. This may be hard for her, but maybe the laughing and witty remarks can help her find that there's a new home for her and a new group of people to become a part of. It sounds like it is the girl's natural character to be funny ad witty, and it is important to stay true to that. Really, you want to find a balance in between monotonous mourning and overly peppy lack there of. Readers are always looking for a chance to call us out on something, so they may get bored if your character spends hours locked in their room crying or might call Mary Sue if she can jump back up and keep going. What you have so far seems like you're almost there. It might help to work both her humorous side and her mourning into the story if you make a little time line. Rate each point in her story with a 1 for humorous and a 10 for melancholy. A 5 is somewhere in between. Then you can go bcd and flesh these out. For example:
• Finds out her grand mother is dead: 10
• Mourning: 10
• Boarding school: 8 (this might go down a bit because she is over whelmed with the shock)
• Finds she isn't a human: 6 (this might go down even more as the surprises continue.)
• Spends some time at the boarding school: 9 (This goes back up as the excitement wears off and her thoughts return to her grandmother.)
• Finds friends: 2-4 (At this point, she's having fun with friends. You can put in witty comments etc.)
•Down time: 8 ( when she's alone she might get sad again. It is scientifically shown you get more emotional at night.)
As you can see, the numbers slowly decrease as a whole. The longer she spends there, the easier it will be for her.
I hope this helps.
Keep writing and imagining,
Eve

I'm glad it helped!

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