I need help! I'm writing a story about a secret place that some teenagers gather to share poetry and music and stuff (kind of like in dead poet's society). The thing about this place is, it's completely anonymous so no one has any clue who anyone else is. (masks and stuff) It's all going swimmingly except for one thing: I can't think of a conflict to save my life! I have some ideas but nothing really feels right. In the story, there is a new kid introduced and brought to the Twilight (that's the secret place) and he meets the main character and stuff but after the basic outline I've got no clue what to do.
I guess it really really depends what genre you were aiming to write, if you wanted to do so softcore cute high school have one character develop a crush on another one but have no idea who they are and make it another cinderella story. If you want it more of a softcore coming of age story have one character steal another characters poems and pass them off as their own in the public eye and receive a lot of praise or even win some sort of contest with it and then have the stolen from character be scared to tell anyone it was stolen from them because the content is so personal. If you want to get hard core then I'll gently remind you that masks are great for blackmails stalkers and murders, just saying, and then obviously there's a lot to go from if you wanna write horror. I mean i'm getting a few other wisps of ideas here but it' be great to know more about what type of story you want to write and who your two kids are etc
Well, the thing I'm writing is actually a musical and the songs have a kind of eerie feel to them so I'm thinking a more kind of horror feel. The new student(Beckham) that shows up is a foster kid and his parents had to give him up when he was 5. I'm thinking that maybe his biological father might try to find him again and Beckham doesn't want to be found and so the father goes a little crazy and finds out about the Twilight and burns it down, killing Beckham and his love interest (Amelia). I kind of feel like I could do a lot with that but then I wonder if I could still make it pertain to the original story. I'm thinking about doing this in the first act and then featuring the friends that they had (a kid with autism and his sister, and a jerk/jock) trying to cope with losing them and other characters trying to rebuild the Twilight. Thanks for any advice you have to offer!
Oh shit man I thought you were trying to write a disney channel original movie and then two sentences later everyone is dead. Jesus okay let me collect myself and try again
So we're doing murder
that's cool.
So I mean you pretty much have your conflict right there, you can say Beckham was originally taken away from his parents by DCFS because his father was crazy, then you have this nice traumatized boy working through his teenage feels in the twilight and eventually he hears word that his real father is looking for him and the stress drives him a little crazy (Also I'm thinking that could be a pretty cool song of Beckham just singing about what might happen if his father finds him and its starts slow but gets more panicked and faster as the lyrics get more violent until it's just going ten thousand miles an hour) and of course the people around him are scared a swell because of this possibility.
Then everyone dies.
then the rest of the story's conflict is trying to be a bunch of 14-18 year olds coping with the massive psychological trauma of a double homicide committed so close to home.
Haha yeah I mean thats alot of man vs man, man vs self conflict right there.
