Teens Writing for Teens, issue 6

This chapter isn't going to to be the best... But the next one is planned to be quite the exciting one.

I just need to increase the word count in my chapters...

I'm pretty good, thanks.

Had a good day at school for once. I also went to a naturalization ceremony which was pretty amazing.

How is everyone?

I'm good. The writing is going okay, though there's a part of me that seems to have forgotten that Will is a vampire. I am hoping to change this when I type this lot up.

I hate when I forget things about my characters haha. Sometimes I even change their names without even knowing it.

Actually, HR, it was Unique (Wade), a transgendered character.

I quite enjoyed all of their numbers, especially Lea Michele's cover of 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'. Out of this world, you guys. That woman's voice is gold.

But Glee last night was at its best.

Thalia said:

Actually, HR, it was Unique (Wade), a transgendered character.

I quite enjoyed all of their numbers, especially Lea Michele's cover of 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'. Out of this world, you guys. That woman's voice is gold.

But Glee last night was at its best.

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Sorry my mistake! I haven't actually watched last night's episodes yet and I didn't know that Unique was coming back. *goes to watch*

The two episodes from last night were SO good. Props might be the best of all time, story-wise, but Nationals is pretty damn good.

Also, hope I'm not spoiling anything by saying... since it's Nationals, Vocal Adrenaline is back! Which means Jesse St. James!

Jesse is my FAVORITE character other than Rachel. I ship St. Berry SO HARD.

Sebastian is my most hated character on Glee, but Jesse is the one I've hated the longest.

Well, let me tell you... Jesse makes up for the egging incident in Nationals. In a big way.

I also dearly love Sebastian, if for nothing else than the thought of how beautiful it will be when he and Kurt find something or someone to mutually hate. Can you imagine the pure wit? I would DIE. It would be so very epic.

No matter how much I ship Sebofsky, I will never forgive Sebastian for the Blaine slushy incident.

I ship Kurbastian.

Strangely.

Not as hard as my main ships, but... <3

I just ship every single ship there is to ship! Except KarofskyxSue.

The fact that Karofsky/Sue was even thought of kind of disturbs me...

Oh, I just made it up on the spot.

sorry gleeks.

I just found a tape of On My Own from les mis being covered. THEY RUINED IT! goodness...

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I love that cover! Lea Michele was offered Eponine on Broadway when she was 20.

I'm a total Lea Stan.

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sorry gleeks.

I just found a tape of On My Own from les mis being covered. THEY RUINED IT! goodness...

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Matt, if you don't like their songs, why do you listen to them?

Horserider said:

Matt, if you don't like their songs, why do you listen to them?

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This.

I really feel like ranting right now.

Horserider said:

Matt, if you don't like their songs, why do you listen to them?

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School, HR. Have to get the kids to talk to me somehow.

YA question: are multiple FP views in a book (switching between chapter if necessary) common practise? Is it frowned upon?

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School, HR. Have to get the kids to talk to me somehow.

YA question: are multiple FP views in a book (switching between chapter if necessary) common practise? Is it frowned upon?

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I wouldn't say it's common practice, but there are books with multiple points of view. Per*fect Chem*istry and Rul*es of Attra*ction are told from two points of view each. From the Wol*ves of Mer*cy Fa*lls trilogy, Shi*ver has two, then Ling*er and Fo*rev*er both have four.

If that's what works best for a book, then there's nothing wrong with it. The main point is that the voices sound distinctive enough from each other.

Well, there are a decent number of Glee fans in the thread. You are so totally allowed to have your own opinion, but please be respectful of ours'.

I'm not sure what FP stands for, but multiple POVs are quite common in YA, and done right can be quite succesful.

ETA: HOUR beat me to it! And I'd like to add that people write multi-POV in very different ways.

There's also writing in third person omnipotent. There are a lot of books that kind of sit right on the line between third limited with multiple POVs and third omnipotent. When writing from multiple POVs, third tends to be ideal. You have to be *really* good at voice to do multiple POVs in first person. Besides which, doing it that way gets kind of annoying. @nn M Mart1n is someone who was able to pull it off in her Baby-sitters Club super special books (or whatever they were). But those books are also middle grade/chapter books, and generally people don't read those unless they're already fans of the series. Plus she had a lot of experience writing from all the girls' points of view.

I love reading books that are written from multiple POVs. But the thing about writing different characters, is you have to make sure that their voices are distinct, that they all don't end up sounding the same.

Third-person multi-POV is what I write most often.

I haven't really tried writing from multiple POVs yet.

But I know for a fact that OSAI's sequel (that is if I ever finish writing OSAI) will be written from two POVs.