I realized this weekend young adults are more interesting in the virtual world of the internet than they are in real life. Thus, I thought what about writing a story about somone having to escape an on-line preditor. I almost went through that situation myself recently, I was stopped by friends and loved ones. However, some people are not as lucky. What do you think?
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Sounds good....but keep in mind teenagers read about this a LOT. Seventeen just had a story about a girl who got pregnant by an internet predator. We read articles about internet safety in school. That girl from Heroes has ads about it in Teen Vogue. We're bothered about this issue all the time, so...Stupid Advice: You've GOT to be original.
And please don't make your MC an idiot. Like...that girl who got pregnant? Come on.
And please don't make your MC an idiot. Like...that girl who got pregnant? Come on.
No. I am making my MC smart. Just lonely and desperate for friends(like someone else I know:myself.)
I agree with Shady Lane...as a young adult I can tell you I've heard the same advice about avoiding online predators etc, and practically everyone has had at least some sort of shady internet "friend"/predator/stalker...two years ago a down and out eighteen year old star wars freak was convinced he;d had a vision of me before we had met and that we were destined to be together. So yeah. Be original. It's redundant but be original. Good luck with your story.
(on a side note, I don't know if it's fair to say that young adults are more interesting online than they are in reality...I mean I think I'm more interesting in real life...not like I turn into a drooling idiot when I log off...)
(on a side note, I don't know if it's fair to say that young adults are more interesting online than they are in reality...I mean I think I'm more interesting in real life...not like I turn into a drooling idiot when I log off...)
I am very glad to know this. I have seen a number of my friends actually manage to do so. Anyway, I am open to any suggestions people wish to give.
What about positive online relationships. I met my very favoritest pen-pall on this website. In fact...she's my ONLY pen-pall! Except instead of pens, we communicate by advanced electronic mail.
Why not write a story about a young person who meets someone nice online, and gets stalked by a real stalker, and the online person saves their life or something...that'd be an interesting twist...
Oh and other things young adults are told way way too much about:
Drinking and driving: We're bad enough drivers without drinking, but we still do it!
Smoking: They keep puffing, no matter how many times I tell them to “Enjoy Lung Cancer.”
Drugs: I don't have any drug addicts at my school but they still bother us...
Safe Sex: Ugh...let's not even go into this horrible bias thingy...way one sided...
Homophobia: There is a poster in one of my classes with Smoky the Bear, saying: “Only you can prevent Homophobia.”
Internet Safety: Actually...we're not told all that much about this...
Why not write a story about a young person who meets someone nice online, and gets stalked by a real stalker, and the online person saves their life or something...that'd be an interesting twist...
Oh and other things young adults are told way way too much about:
Drinking and driving: We're bad enough drivers without drinking, but we still do it!
Smoking: They keep puffing, no matter how many times I tell them to “Enjoy Lung Cancer.”
Drugs: I don't have any drug addicts at my school but they still bother us...
Safe Sex: Ugh...let's not even go into this horrible bias thingy...way one sided...
Homophobia: There is a poster in one of my classes with Smoky the Bear, saying: “Only you can prevent Homophobia.”
Internet Safety: Actually...we're not told all that much about this...
What if a preditor gets online looking for a victim and he suddenly finds himself being stauked by a more evil preditor?
I was told that, too. But, look at it this way. We talk to each other, and save for a few exceptions, we are all basically talking to strangers. Aren't we?
No, we're talking to a bunch of masks. Cause forums are really just a place to talk while holding a mask to your face.
Actually yeah I think zoombie has something there. Don't lose the predator angle--but maybe your MC has a really great online friendship with someone else. I mean I met my best friend eeeeeeever online, and a couple other really close friends and they've all shaped my life...a lot.
Basically if your MC is online enough to get stalkers she'll probably also have some extremely close friends. Phone call, visiting kind of friends, depending on what kind of family she has, how cautious she is, how sure she is about their identities, stuff like that.
Basically if your MC is online enough to get stalkers she'll probably also have some extremely close friends. Phone call, visiting kind of friends, depending on what kind of family she has, how cautious she is, how sure she is about their identities, stuff like that.
Probably because most people aren't stalkers. And honestly, it depends where you're going. If you post half-naked pictures on myspace, well, what do you think is going to happen? But most forums are not teeming with stalkers. Like I'd be surprised to find someone getting stalked on AW. And most (reputable) forums have a zero-tolerance policy for stalking.
This is very true, Nancy. That said, some people, myself included, will start taking the internet too seriously. I can't count the number of times my mother has told me stop taking fights with my on-line friends to seriously. I came up with yet, another idea by the way. What if someone who was adopted happened to come across an old friend. Many times I find people I was friendly with in high school adding me to their MySpace friends list. In fact, that's how I found my 6th grade best friend. So many bad things occurr via the internet that they can sometimes overshadow the possitive things completely. But, you do have to admit, the internet is a lage part of life for everyone these days.
All right, I'm curious what you mean. I wrote a book about a boy who had diabetes, and for my research I started getting involved in the diabetes online community...and it's massive. The girl who runs one of the biggest blogs, sixuntilme, is sweet as can be and actually editing my book for me (she's writing a book, too.) So, I'm not quite sure what you're looking for, but if you're looking for information, I'm your girl.
Out of sheer boredom one night,I wandered into a diabeties chat room. I quickly befriended the owner, although he was actually my fathers age. I recently learned he was convicted at one point of armed robbery and served time in jail. This same guy used a special program to connect our webcams so he could watch me all day long. Would you expect things like that to go on?
Absolutely not...hmm.
This is reminding me of the book Sweetblood by Pete Hautman, about a diabetic girl who gets sort-of stalked by a guy she meets in a vampire chatroom. Not an awful book.
This is reminding me of the book Sweetblood by Pete Hautman, about a diabetic girl who gets sort-of stalked by a guy she meets in a vampire chatroom. Not an awful book.
That is why I plotted the story the way I did. I draw from my own experiences. By the way, when I asked the guy why he robbed someone, his responce was he needed the money and had no other way of getting it.
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