Story Proposal

Sorry this is so late, my internet connection doesn't like blogger very much...

Short Story, probably for Young Adults

Characters:
A girl, and several of her friends (have not thought of names, they usually come to me when I'm already writing).

Setting:
A fictional place, still relatively similar to the real world, except for a few things.

Short Synopsis:
A story about a girl who writes – she doesn’t really take it seriously, writes about strange things, occurrences, events, people making choices that don’t make sense, don’t follow any kind of logic at all – and one day finds that the things she writes keep coming true.

Research Method:
Nothing very substantial yet. For now, perhaps I will consult with people on what they think fiction is, and of how writers and readers have viewed fiction through the years.

Reason for Writing:
The source of the idea for my story is something that will, in all likelihood, end up being almost completely unrelated to the story: The Twilight Saga.With the rise of the whole debate about Twilight among the young literature enthusiasts/general readers, of which I am on the “against” side, I found out some troubling things about how my chosen genre, fiction, is perceived by some readers. Whenever people bring up logic and real-world reasoning in order to prove the literary inadequacy of Twilight, the fans of the said book series usually reply, “It’s just a book!” or “You just think too much!” or, most troublesome of all: “It’s just Fiction; it’s not supposed to make sense!”
The last statement, and many variations of it made by different Twilight readers, horrified me. People actually thought that just because it was fiction, it didn’t have to have logic. That it didn’t have to make sense or be applied to the truth of the real world. This of course, is not true – I have always been taught, by CW teachers and Lit teachers alike, that all genres of literature have to convey a human truth. The readers basically think that anything one writes, if it is in fiction, should not have to be taken seriously. That absolutely anything, with no explanations necessary, can happen because hey, it’s fictional.
The difficulty of a writer who writes fiction is in putting forth a world whose logic makes sense even to a reader who belongs solidly to the real world. If it is realistic, then it should, indeed, follow the scientific and logical rules of the natural world. In fantasy, where there are different worlds and different creatures, one has to follow logic, all the while not constraining himself/herself to the scientific laws of the actual world. But even worlds of the Fantastic follow their own logic that is constant and rational (Twilight is unfortunately set in the real world, despite having Vampires, and the author often throws out the window logic that should apply even to Vampires and Werewolves because they, too, live in the world we currently live in).


No solid plans for the next two stories yet; am probably going to try to make one that's more adult, but I have no idea yet what to do with the third.