I want to write a story with a lesson, so I came up with this idea: A teenage girl dies and is sent to the holding place before "Heaven", a huge hotel with The Guiding Elavator. You go up if you go to Heaven, and down.... well, you get it. So the teen meets with this lady who tells her that she isn't going anywhere anytime soon. In order to GET into the Guiding Elavator, you have to have contributed to the Afterlife by learning a moral lesson on Earth. The purpose of Life is to help aid others and yourself in the Afterlife. The teen was an ignorant one, thinking of nothing but gossip and shopping. She hadn't learned a single lesson, thus had to be reborn on Earth as an Angel. Angels often were placed on Earth just to observe and learn more lessons, and everyone in the Afterlife eventually went back. You just usually are "assigned your living quarters for a few thousand years." So the girl is sent back, and she observes, and she knows she will eventually die. She notices just how many
2006-08-12 04:45:26 · 16 answers · asked by ~S~ is for Stephanie! 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Angels there actually was on Earth: writers, philosophers, the wise people who you knew, all Angels! The girl meets a girl just like her, morally handicapped and thinking of nothing but friends. She befriends her, and they become close. One day she sees in her friends future that she will die! So the Angel warns her to learn a lesson quickly, so as not to accept the same terrible fate of not noing what one's Afterlife will be. The friend desparately observes, and learns a lesson. So she enters a car one day, knowing she will die. But then, the Angel runs in front of the car by accident and is killed! So the Angel is sent back, and the lesson she told the woman was: "Those who are brave enough to face death are often those who still have life to brave." I want the last sentence to be: "The Angel felt the Elavator ding up as she felt her Afterlife shed from her body." or something like that. What do you think?
2006-08-12 04:45:48 · update #1
This sounds like a really good book, and one that I would read for sure, since my favourite book is The Five People You Meet in Heaven and its along the same lines as that. Was this story inspired by it? BUT...Now that I know the end of the book, I don't think I would read it... I'm sorry.
2006-08-12 04:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a fantasy trip that may interest young adults, but it's also a clear example of distorting the truth of the Plan of Salvation that God ordained for mankind.
In reality, the interim place that spirits rest after their mortal body dies is a place called the spirit world--either paradise or a spirit prison. There, the spirits will wait until the day of their resurrection and then their final judgment.
Angels are those having lived previously on earth, but having a spirit reincarnated as an angel and returning to earth for a second chance is pure fantasy at best.
Judging by the plot given, the author has much to write to make the novel cohesive and transitionally. It calls for good dialogue that can attract teens and young adults.
So write away. The effort should prove fruitful in many ways. I would read it only to see how the author writes and pulls the reader into the story.
2006-08-12 05:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don not think that it will be my kind a book but I know that there will certainly be people who will love to read it. I think it can turn in to a good book. So all I can do is advice you to continue to write your story and try to find a publisher who will publish it for you.
I think it's great that you are writing a book and I hope that you will find a publisher. It will be difficult to get it done but if you hold on to your dream and believe in yourself it will work out.
Good luck.
2006-08-12 07:46:33 · answer #3 · answered by bird K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should go for it . As you can see from the answers you have already gotten there are many different types of people in this world and I am sure this will appeal to some of them. Good Luck!!
2006-08-12 05:00:23 · answer #4 · answered by Jackie G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To late
Book and film already made in 1948
Starred David Nivon, only difference was, about British soldier.
2006-08-12 04:48:48 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds a bit like an episode of "touched by an angel". Maybe think about writing for them.
2006-08-12 04:57:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very confusing, bad sequencing of events, too religious, sounds like about twenty other books!
2006-08-12 06:13:28 · answer #7 · answered by Smiles Like She Means It 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds great! I write and I wish you luck in getting published. It's hard so you'll just have to keep going!
2006-08-12 04:50:52 · answer #8 · answered by Elizabeth S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah but it's kind of like the Wish List by Collefer
2006-08-12 06:08:30 · answer #9 · answered by movie star 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah it sounds like a pretty good book to me.
2006-08-12 04:50:44 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋