What would be a good plot for a young adult romance novel?

Question

I am currently writing a novel for teens but can't think of where I should take the book. I would like it to be sad and the two main characters are madly in love. I don't know if one of them should die or where to go. Please help. The setting is near San Diego, present time. The girl just moved there and now school is starting. She is a sophmore. Troy, the other protaganist, is a junior and star of the football team. Thank you! Everything helps.

Answer 1

Your main character should be a dyslexic teen-age robot with a nice singing voice,and chainsaws for hands.Everyone picks on him (especially the jocks) , but he still manages to keep a positive attitude.
His love interest should be a cheerleader with a wooden leg.She is spunky,and has proved her stick-to-it-iveness by making squad leader despite her handicap.
Develop the story by explaining that she has a soft spot in her heart for underdogs (need I explain why?) , and has taken a special interest in Backwardo.
Backwardo has no idea that Peggy Legg (let's call her PegLeg) is falling for him,even though she spends most of her free time with him encouraging his singing talent.
The story gets a bit awkward though,as Backwardo tries other forms of musical expression.Talented as he is,he just can't seem to hold any instrument in his chainsaw hands without cutting it into scrap,whether it be a guitar or saxophone.
PegLeg discouarages Backwardo from further destruction of school-owned musical instruments,and steers him towards his Micrsoft given talent of singing.Backwardo complies,and exercises his sound-board.
Use your creativity to fill in the middle of the story with all the silly scenes that have teenagers creaming their undies.
Now comes the emotional part....
PegLeg tells Backwardo how she feels about him.Backwardo,being a robot with no emotions,is unsure how to act.So he checks his internal data-base of human behavior.His CPU instructs him that a hug would be the appropriate response.
Sadly,this hug ends with PegLeg's death...Backwardo forgets that he has chainsaws for hands,and ends up slicing her to bits.
But there is a happy ending!
Backwardo saves Peg's wooden leg,and uses his chainsaw hands to carve it into a likeness of her,and keeps it at his docking station.....he calls it a bed.

The end.

Answer 2

I've never done this before, so don't hate me if its bad. I would suggest that one of the protagonists (preferably the football star) be in a terrible car accident. I also advise that you switch points of view between the two main characters. That way the reader will learn how each character feels. On the subject of the accident, you could show both character's feelings on the accident, and how the football player reacts and treats other people. Is he bitter; angry that he can no longer play? Perhaps he takes his anger out on the other character and they have a falling out. To make it more dramatic, you could make the football player run into someone in the girl's family that she was particularly close to, and died in the crash. I hope that this aids you in your writing. I know how it feels to have writers block.

Answer 3

The more specifically that you conceptualize the characters, the less you will need to think about "plot" Because your characters will tell you what the conflicts are, what the resolutions are, what they want, what and who the obstacles are to getting what they want,and whether or not they are willing to do what it takes to get what they want.

Characters in plot driven books are often very weakly conceptualized, and thus the whole book suffers. When people are reading books, they may think that they are reading to find out "what happens" but what they are really reading for is, "what happens to people."

The more you can discover about your characters (and you don't need to tell us everything, but the more you know about them, the more that work on them that you do will shine through).

Consider education levels, habits (both good and bad), favorites, likes and dislikes, long term and short term goals. There are many online sheets that you can find that will ask you all sorts of questions to help you specifically and vividly depict your characters. Once you have them worked out, their differences in personality will begin to show you where the plot will go. They will lead the way. I promise.

Answer 4

Teens does not = young adult in all genres. Check out the market for which you wish to write for. Determine the appropriate age range for your market, then you will have a basic idea how to proceed for the genre you've chosen.

As for plot, it's best to write something that you know, have experience with, or know of someone who has had a similar experience.

Plot idea:

Girl and boy meet and boy falls for girl to have girl be distance because she has an incurable illness. The boy doesn't know why she doesn't want to have anything to do with him and then he discovers her secret. He doesn't let her know but works to try and find out all he can about her illness.

He arranges to be in as many of her classes as he can, they become extremely close friends, which turns into love.

His gentle understanding nature with his warmth and caring personality is in contrast to his rough exterior and command of the football field.

Her classic elegance's brings unwanted attention, yet her cold stand-offish demeanor holds her terrible secret.

Answer 5

how with regards to the guy is suicidal secretly, then at last tells the lady because of the fact theyve been so close, then he says that she's the only element it is actual going sturdy for him, then the guy will become soo packed with himself from being suicidal that he does something incorrect that by some skill reasons the lady's dying by twist of destiny. And the finished finished time the lady replace into purely attempting to help the guy out.

Answer 6

you can't go wrong with a geek to sheik storyline. The girl moves to the big city from a small town or something and finds big city life way more fast paced than she's used to. So she gets made fun of because of the way she dresses or whatever. Slowly but surely she adapts to city life and goes from zero to hero and wins prom queen going out with the quarterback of the football team.

Answer 7

Grease, Grease 2 are good places to start. Modify characters, plot, or anything else. Contact the writers if possible and tell them what you are planning so they might be able to give help.

Answer 8

boy meets girl in class, girl is super smart and guy is a jock. jock starts liking girl and cheats to get good grades to impress her. then she finds out and throws him off. the guy saves her from something and they fall in love only for the guy to get killed by the girl's ex which was the original reason why she moved schools.