Writing a story about a planes passengers?

Question

Please dont take my idea, i took a long (and i mean long) time to come up with it.

I have an idea to write about a paragraph on each passenger on a plane. A minor example would be:
Passenger 28D. A beautiful vivacious girl. She slowly sipped her Dr.Pepper as she stared lovingly at her boyfriend. Her curly hair bounced gently around he shoulder as she turned to her best friend, Passenger 28C.

I wanted any suggestions on how to make the story more interesting, becasue i really only want to have small stories about each passenger, and not an actual storyline. I'm 14...couldya help me out here? =DD
thanks much

Answer 1

have you ever seen the video for 'Everybody Hurts' by REM?
it's all these people stuck in traffic and all of their sad thoughts...it's pretty clever...instead of spending lots of time describing what the passengers are doing at that moment, write a bit about where they are going and why. then maybe you could connect them all in some way. try this website: http://www.storycircle.org/LifeStoryBriefs

try to write some of your life truth into the story--it makes it richer and more believable.

Answer 2

well I think you should do more than just a paragraph, like maybe a half a page so we can get to know them, but don't give them names, just keep up with 28C, 28D, etc.

I think you should have something happen on the plane, or it will just be boring. Maybe instead of describing them, you could do, like, "The Thoughts of Flight 482" ? or whatever. and it would center around these people and all this drama happening on a flight, and you would have the thoughts of these people, but then also a couple random thoughts of the people surrounding them that give clues to what's happening, like "Why is that curly-haired girl crying?" or whatever.

I think you might need to have some sort of plot, however loose, because otherwise it will just get boring. Maybe you could say where each of them is going too, and do a small plot on each of the destinations?

anyways, good luck.

Answer 3

You are going to need something a little stronger than that they are on this plane together to connect these stories. Read "Short Cuts" by Raymond Carver, and/or watch the Robert Altman film, and you might get some ideas. You have an interesting idea there. Keep working on it, you'll get there.

While reading and writing as much as possible are the best ways to become a better writer, don't let anyone discourage you. Keep going. You'll do fine.

Answer 4

First of all, a true sign of a writing neophyte is begging others not to "steal" your writing. The second sign is posting a writing sample here and the third sign of a writing neophyte is asking people here at Yahoo! Answers for tips on how to write the story.

A true writer has the story within themselves, in their mind and heart. In fact, a true writer has TONS of stories aching to be told. If that is you, if you have those stories in you, you simply write, write, write them. You perfect those written stories by editing, revising and revising again until they are perfectly polished pieces of writing. If you need help you take writing classes, you read writing books, you join local or online critique groups.

Most of all, you read prolifically and then you write the types of stories you like to read.