Just like the title says. Here is how the story(ies) goes.
~Alexandra(Alex) and Jake were childhood friends. ~They started dating in high school, at a coed boarding school. ~They go see a Winter's Tale for their first date. ~They have about two fights. ~He proposes when they are 17. ~While they are planning the wedding she has a stalker. ~Alex is kind of pshychic so she sees herself being persued by the stalker in dreams. ~The stalker comes after her just like in her dreams. ~Jake saves her from stalker just like in her dreams ~They get married. ~They found out Jake's grandfather was really rich and left his wealth to him. ~They move into mansion, in Cape Cod, with their best friends. ~As a wedding present they get two labadors and name them after the young couple in the Winter's Tale. ~Alex gets pregnant and so does her best friend at 18. ~Alex has identical twin girls while her friend has a boy ~The girls' name are Simone and I think Lola. ~Jake can't tell them apart. ~They are good parents and even send their daughters to public school. ~Sometimes the girls switch clothes in order to confuse their teachers and father.
~Girls grow up. ~They go to college. ~Simone is more down to earth while "Lola" is more free spirited. ~"Lola" has a boyfriend who is her dance partner. He's black. His name is probably Marcus. (I think I did that so all my characters wouldn't be white or hispanic or maybe not, I was 12 I don't remember what I was thinking) ~Simone enjoys her life in a quiet little town. ~A celebrity ends up in the little town getting all the attention of the girls. ~By playing or being not interested she gets his attention and her pursues her. ~There is a blizzard and they are stuck together. ~During the time they are trapped together their love blossoms. ~He has little brothers and Simone loves them. ~They meet up with "Marcus" and "Lola" at the dance studio where they all are "drill seargents" at a dance boot camp. ~Celebrity has to keep his idnetity hidden or else he'll get mobbed. Yeah he's that big of a celebrity. ~They have a mini war scene with the boys v. girls. ~The couple have to practice a routine (maybe for a contest) and the guys keep on getting the girls mixed up. So they have to find a way that it won't happen in the reak performance. ~They find a way. ~Celebrity turns 21 and has to reveal a secret to Simone (they have become very serious). ~The secret is that his brothers are actually his sons. ~Simone is shocked but it makes her love them even more. ~They all move in together ~He proposes and she asks him if he had a choice between her and his sons who he pick. ~He replies he would pick his sons and she agrees to marry him.
~I think in alternate version he didn't have kids or brothers and Simone is kidnapped. ~Either I didn't write how she got kidnapped or I have just forgotten. The two are very likely. ~She is missing for about a year, ~"Lola" has to change her appearance as to not be mistaken for Simone. ~Simone finds a way to break free from captor. ~She finds herself in familliar woods. ~She recognizes the woods being the ones behind her parent's mansion.(Now that I think about it , they should have had better security,"
~She runs to the mansion and breaks in. ~She nearly scares her sister to death and wakes up their parents. ~There is shock but her "psychic" mother saw it in her dreams. ~There are tears and hugs and not as many questions as you would expect. I don't think the police was ever called. ~Next scene is basiclly Simone on an Oprah-like show where she shares details on her kidnapping. ~She also reveals that celebrity is her boyfriend. ~I think they were engaged.
~I can't remember "Lola" and "Marcus" 's story but they end up getting married.
How about I share my first one, which I wrote in 6th or 7th grade (so I was 11 or 12).
Title - Key West Kids (this was a Sweet Valley Twins-style book)
Jeremy and Elizabeth are teens (16 or 17, I guess), and they live in Key West, FL. Jeremy has a boat, and they like to take it out on the ocean. They're out one day and something happens--don't remember what, but may have been a gasoline leak in the motor--and they're not able to return to shore. Darkness falls. A large boat comes along and they think they're saved, but it turns out the boat is actually engaged in illegal turtle (or was it conch?) poaching. Jeremy and Elizabeth get picked up and locked in the hold. They end up spending the night there (gasp! so naughty they slept next to one another!). Then Elizabeth and Jeremy were supposed to do something heroic--I never did decide what--and essentially call in the Coast Guard, who rescues them and nabs the turtle 'nappers. Then they end up at their local hangout--a burger place, I think--recounting their story to their friends.
It was supposed to be a book, but I more or less had it done in 20 or 30 notebook pages. And I had an English teacher point out that I didn't know how to spell "Jeremy." (I had it as "Jermy.")
It's laughable, of course, but I never have forgotten it. And when I went to write my first (real) novel, I gave my MC "Elizabeth" as a middle name, and one of my secondary characters is named "Jeremy." As they say, nothing you write is ever wasted.
It was the standard girl-meets vampire tale. Sorta. Girl falls for guy, guy has been a vampire for about six months, girl, guy, and girl's friends race against the clock to cure the guy of his vampirism because apparently My Vampires Were Different in the sense that the more recently one was "minted" as it were, the more likely it was to be reversed.
Girl and Guy fight Vampire King, Guy is cured of Vampirism, everyone lives happily ever after. Sorta.
I didn't like where my vampire novel was going (more specifically I didn't like my characters because they didn't have any personalities) , so I ended up dropping it. Nine years later, I resurrected part of the plot and most of the characters, but I started from scratch and bam! it now works.
Maybe you just need to ice your story until you've pretty much forgotten all the details, then start it again.
Oh, god. I wrote my first story when I was ten, and it was filled with every fantasy and romance cliche in the book. See, the MC, Rowan, was a boy who worked on a farm with these two farmers who weren't really his parents, along with a girl named Nether. He decides to go to University and runs away, and Nether comes with. He gets into University and graduates, then Nether convinces him to come meet the elves, because it turns out that he's a half elf because he was never elf-baptized. They elf-baptize him and it's revealed that he and Nether are in love but never knew that the other loved them. Also they have to battle evil elves who've mixed their bloodlines with demons (because fantasy worlds are racist against tainted elves, as per usual). So. Bad.
Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
Just like the title says. Here is how the story(ies) goes.
~Alexandra(Alex) and Jake were childhood friends.
~They started dating in high school, at a coed boarding school.
~They go see a Winter's Tale for their first date.
~They have about two fights.
~He proposes when they are 17.
~While they are planning the wedding she has a stalker.
~Alex is kind of pshychic so she sees herself being persued by the stalker in dreams.
~The stalker comes after her just like in her dreams.
~Jake saves her from stalker just like in her dreams
~They get married.
~They found out Jake's grandfather was really rich and left his wealth to him.
~They move into mansion, in Cape Cod, with their best friends.
~As a wedding present they get two labadors and name them after the young couple in the Winter's Tale.
~Alex gets pregnant and so does her best friend at 18.
~Alex has identical twin girls while her friend has a boy
~The girls' name are Simone and I think Lola.
~Jake can't tell them apart.
~They are good parents and even send their daughters to public school.
~Sometimes the girls switch clothes in order to confuse their teachers and father.
~Girls grow up.
~They go to college.
~Simone is more down to earth while "Lola" is more free spirited.
~"Lola" has a boyfriend who is her dance partner. He's black. His name is probably Marcus. (I think I did that so all my characters wouldn't be white or hispanic or maybe not, I was 12 I don't remember what I was thinking)
~Simone enjoys her life in a quiet little town.
~A celebrity ends up in the little town getting all the attention of the girls.
~By playing or being not interested she gets his attention and her pursues her.
~There is a blizzard and they are stuck together. ~During the time they are trapped together their love blossoms.
~He has little brothers and Simone loves them.
~They meet up with "Marcus" and "Lola" at the dance studio where they all are "drill seargents" at a dance boot camp.
~Celebrity has to keep his idnetity hidden or else he'll get mobbed. Yeah he's that big of a celebrity.
~They have a mini war scene with the boys v. girls.
~The couple have to practice a routine (maybe for a contest) and the guys keep on getting the girls mixed up. So they have to find a way that it won't happen in the reak performance.
~They find a way.
~Celebrity turns 21 and has to reveal a secret to Simone (they have become very serious).
~The secret is that his brothers are actually his sons.
~Simone is shocked but it makes her love them even more.
~They all move in together
~He proposes and she asks him if he had a choice between her and his sons who he pick.
~He replies he would pick his sons and she agrees to marry him.
~I think in alternate version he didn't have kids or brothers and Simone is kidnapped.
~Either I didn't write how she got kidnapped or I have just forgotten. The two are very likely.
~She is missing for about a year,
~"Lola" has to change her appearance as to not be mistaken for Simone.
~Simone finds a way to break free from captor.
~She finds herself in familliar woods.
~She recognizes the woods being the ones behind her parent's mansion.(Now that I think about it , they should have had better security,"
~She runs to the mansion and breaks in.
~She nearly scares her sister to death and wakes up their parents.
~There is shock but her "psychic" mother saw it in her dreams.
~There are tears and hugs and not as many questions as you would expect. I don't think the police was ever called.
~Next scene is basiclly Simone on an Oprah-like show where she shares details on her kidnapping.
~She also reveals that celebrity is her boyfriend.
~I think they were engaged.
~I can't remember "Lola" and "Marcus" 's story but they end up getting married.
Let the roast begin!
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
You know what, what you got here is a good plot for a long-running shoujo romance manga, if you omit the kidnapping arc. I'm not even kidding.
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
How about I share my first one, which I wrote in 6th or 7th grade (so I was 11 or 12).
Title - Key West Kids (this was a Sweet Valley Twins-style book)
Jeremy and Elizabeth are teens (16 or 17, I guess), and they live in Key West, FL. Jeremy has a boat, and they like to take it out on the ocean. They're out one day and something happens--don't remember what, but may have been a gasoline leak in the motor--and they're not able to return to shore. Darkness falls. A large boat comes along and they think they're saved, but it turns out the boat is actually engaged in illegal turtle (or was it conch?) poaching. Jeremy and Elizabeth get picked up and locked in the hold. They end up spending the night there (gasp! so naughty they slept next to one another!). Then Elizabeth and Jeremy were supposed to do something heroic--I never did decide what--and essentially call in the Coast Guard, who rescues them and nabs the turtle 'nappers. Then they end up at their local hangout--a burger place, I think--recounting their story to their friends.
It was supposed to be a book, but I more or less had it done in 20 or 30 notebook pages. And I had an English teacher point out that I didn't know how to spell "Jeremy." (I had it as "Jermy.")
It's laughable, of course, but I never have forgotten it. And when I went to write my first (real) novel, I gave my MC "Elizabeth" as a middle name, and one of my secondary characters is named "Jeremy." As they say, nothing you write is ever wasted.
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
lol, Jermy. I used to think it was Jemery. It's a difficult name.
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
Me too!!!
Phew I'm glad I'm not the only one...
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
No, my attempt was was worse. It had no title.
It was the standard girl-meets vampire tale. Sorta. Girl falls for guy, guy has been a vampire for about six months, girl, guy, and girl's friends race against the clock to cure the guy of his vampirism because apparently My Vampires Were Different in the sense that the more recently one was "minted" as it were, the more likely it was to be reversed.
Girl and Guy fight Vampire King, Guy is cured of Vampirism, everyone lives happily ever after. Sorta.
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
You know, that doesn't sound half bad.
I didn't like where my vampire novel was going (more specifically I didn't like my characters because they didn't have any personalities) , so I ended up dropping it. Nine years later, I resurrected part of the plot and most of the characters, but I started from scratch and bam! it now works.
Maybe you just need to ice your story until you've pretty much forgotten all the details, then start it again.
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
Oh, god. I wrote my first story when I was ten, and it was filled with every fantasy and romance cliche in the book. See, the MC, Rowan, was a boy who worked on a farm with these two farmers who weren't really his parents, along with a girl named Nether. He decides to go to University and runs away, and Nether comes with. He gets into University and graduates, then Nether convinces him to come meet the elves, because it turns out that he's a half elf because he was never elf-baptized. They elf-baptize him and it's revealed that he and Nether are in love but never knew that the other loved them. Also they have to battle evil elves who've mixed their bloodlines with demons (because fantasy worlds are racist against tainted elves, as per usual).
So.
Bad.
Re: Hey! Let's poke fun at my first attempt to write a romance in the 7th grade!
I think it's cute! haha It's very in depth. When I was younger I had a lot of trouble planning out stories. I still struggle with the planning stage.