Small Town Group Write

@ grow a pair @ pelican park.
I like the idea of having a flashback portion - maybe we could do our first chapters as half flash back, half present? or we could do the interlude idea, which I also like. I think it just would be a good idea to have the scene set for their departures so their returns can make sense.

I don't think we're making it too complicated! they've come back to save their town/special place but they've also come back to figure out what happened that night and how they're all involved. maybe they can all intertwine at the end. I still like the idea of it being a murder but yeah

@ blades
Oh we can still do it, I just wasn't sure if I was being too twisted for you all.

In regards to that, I was thinking that the first round of chapters could be focused on the past and then the second round be set in the present? The interludes could happen anywhere - depending on whether we want to create suspense for the readers for them not knowing how this kid died - or we want to write about the kid first, so we can talk about how it affects the characters in the later chapters.

@ blades @ grow a pair
Can I suggest that we start with where they are now and then keep the suspense of "what happened" going for as long as we can? Like we can do flashbacks within our own chapters if we wish. And then the interludes would give the readers a better understanding than the characters themselves (o0o0o dramatic irony) while also keeping suspense.

I like the starting with the past idea too, though.

@ pelican park.
Oooh, I like that idea. SO MUCH SUSPENSE
So they basically don't know anything, well, they know the general idea of why we're all coming back but they know none of this friends drama and deaths and parties and craziness that gets down in this town.

I think writing wise as well, it'll be less confusing to write. And read.

Edit: Also, for the name of the town I was thinking Rosaleigh, for no particular reason, really. It could be the name of the lake that the town thought had dried up over the years but it didn't really ~

@ grow a pair
I like Rosaleigh. Rosaleigh, Maine? Rosaleigh, Connecticut? Idk the state lol but I like the town :)

Okay this is more to help me out but for the Interlude thing to work, we'd have to substitute one of our chapters for it. So like the say the order goes like this
Chapter 1: Samara
Chapter 2: Jordan
Chapter 3: Levi
Chapter 4: Julienne
Chapter 5: Interlude #1 (about Samara, so Alex would write it)
Chapter 6: Jordan
Chapter 7: Levi
Chapter 8: Julienne

yeah? Does that make sense? But it doesn't have to be this early or it we could space them out so Interlude #2 would be like chapter 13 or whatever.

idk if you wanted Small Town to be the title but maybe (for example) we could do Rosaleigh, NY (if New York would be the state)

@ pelican park.
I don't know states so anywhere is good with me.

I reckon we should space the interludes out, wherever it's fitting for the story, really.
With the interludes though, do we have to substitute one of our chapters or would it not work if say, Samara's present chapter was right after her interlude chapter.

Also, are there only going to be one set of interludes to describe what happened in the past, regarding the party? And then in our present chapters we talk about our personal shit with the love triangles and so forth?

The title be Rosaleigh? Or Rosaleigh, NY?

I like the sound of Rosaleigh, NY. But would it be much of a small town if it's set in NY? Or am I being ignorant here.

@ grow a pair
I think everyone is American unless stated otherwise and it's blatantly on underneath your name. Sorry about that :/ We don't have to do it in the States if you don't want to. Mind you, I've only been to London out of the country so I'm just gonna draw from that if we pick somewhere else.

All states have small towns somewhere or other. Plus, if it was in New York, all the more reasons to make it a tourist destination! :)

@ pelican park.
Yaoi is also from the land of the down under what what
I always base my stories in the states. I prefer the states, actually. Not too sure what goes down in Australian small towns but they're the most bogan of the bunch Bogan is slang for your redneck, btw.

NY IT IS.

Okay, so besides the main story plot, all we have to figure out is how this person died, WHO IS THIS PERSON THAT DIED oh and yaoi needs to establish her plot with the rest of us. Pretty sure she's in school right now.

Oh and you know how in small towns they have their regular hang out spots and stuff? I feel like we should establish something like that. Maybe not have a River Court but, y'know. The lake could be popular for the teenagers that only the teenagers know about - and people only go to it at night.

Oh and we have to figure out how they keep the town - but I was thinking that this lake could have like, endangered species or it could be made into a tourist destination or something therefore it could save the town of Rosaleigh but also be a detriment to the gang who don't want their special spot ruined/or evidence be found relating to the death of this unknown person or something.

@ grow a pair
HOPE EVERYONE IS OKAY WITH A SMALL TOWN IN NEW YORK.

I like the lake idea and I also like the endangered species thing (yay environment!). Like someone could discover that there is an endangered like fish or something in the lake and that could halt the destruction. We can also make it cheesy and have some people recall great memories at this lake which, in an 80's movie, would move people to tears.

@ pelican park.
I love 80's movies. Who's that guy that made all the good movies? JOHN HUGHES. Legend.

Oooh, yeah. And when people are recalling said memories, maybe the parent's generation didn't know about it but the grandparents are all like, 'yeah, I remember railing Stacy at the lake'. Like that cool grandpa that's kind of loopy but everyone loves and calls him grandpa even though they're not his grandpa.


And then in the background 'Don't You Forget About Me' is played in the background. LOL

Btw I put the rating as R - idk if you guys will be going into NC-17 standard but I don't think it'll be PG-13 because I don't think it'll be that low either ~

@ grow a pair
I like rated R!

@ pelican park.
Sounds good

So. This dead person. Anyone have an idea of how they could be? At first I was thinking a guy but a girl could be good too but is she friends with Julienne or does Julienne see her die and then tells everyone else and then the guys toss her body in the lake and nobody goes back to the lake because ugh, creepy if a body just floats up to the surface.

Or if she drowns? Or someone pushes her in the water and she can't swim...this is taking some sinister turns.

@ grow a pair
I like the tossing the body in the lake thing! Oooooooo

@ grow a pair @ pelican park.
I like the idea of creating some suspense too in what exactly happened. I'm all about suspense, haha.

I'm fine with either type of chapter set up, I think we all just need to be on the same page in regards to it. I'm on the fence replacing an entire chapter each with an interlude - with group writes you only get a handful of chapters to tell your story (like if we each wrote 10 chapters our story would already be 40 chapters long) and I think it would be difficult to sacrifice one of those chapters entirely if we're already doing flash backs. I'm fine with either, we just need to choose.

I'm good with this happening in NY woopwoop. and with the rating. and with an awesome 80s cliche ending of everyone reminiscing about why they love the lake - I like the endangered specices idea too. it could totally be like one of those scary 80s girl dramas like Heathers or Jawbreaker or whatever they're called that are dark and awesome but still have a cheesy ending.

When I imagined this murder, I kind of imagined someone pushing this person (I was thinking girl dying and boy doing the murder, like some kind of heated drunken love moment gone awry) in the water and they were too drunk to swim. that may be a little too GG though. idk. but I do like the idea of tossing the body into the lake. that's a good idea.

@ blades
That's a good point, about the interludes. But I don't know how else to do it. I'm not the biggest fan of writing flashbacks within chapter idk why, it's a weird dislike.

I like that drunken love moment thing! But who would it be ooooo? I also think that guy should run away and so like Levi and Jordan have to throw the body in the water or something. But also, how is Jordan connected to all of us? I'd tag yaoi but I'm on my phone haha

Oh but now that i think about it, I just really want chapters (or at least something written) in the POV of the victim just because I think that'll give it a cool style.

What if we did our normal round of chapters and then instead of substituting the chapters we take turns to write from the victim's point of view, showing how they connected with our character before the murder, and then the there could be a special interlude of how the victim actually died? It would be like a bonus chapter of sorts, and we'd have to put parts of each of our interludes to give the full story of what happened that night.

So everyone still has their chapters but wherever fitting, we'd chuck in an interlude. Hope no one minds writing an extra chapter for that round.

We'll just have to wait for yaoi to get on but I'll shoot her a message in the meantime.

I like the drunken love moment thing too. The couple could just be drunk and fighting near the more dangerous edges of the lake - like maybe there's a mini cliff with some sharp edges and then he pushes her but she trips on a fallen tree root - those things are nasty, ugh - and tumbles down the cliff but stays there I guess. And then julienne sees it all - could be friends with either person and tells someone and shit gets done about the girl aka tossing her into a lake.

Or they could be making out but he wants to take it further and the girl in her drunken haze is like "yeah no" so he gets all angry and then in a fit of anger - or maybe he has anger management problems - pushes her down a cliff. Or say if she says no and wants to get away from him b/c she senses something off about him, tries to run away, runs up to the cliff and hides in one of the caves or something. But it's high tide (do caves and high tides even exist in lakes, idts) or maybe a couple jumps into the lake, causing the water to move to the side and fill up the cave, resulting in the girl to accidentally drown. And then after the couple or friends or whoever leave, julienne ooh what if Julienne saw the whole making out saying no thing, but gets pulled away by someone else but when she comes back to find the girl, she turns up in the lake - the body magically floats from the cave or hidden area to the middle of the lake.

Btw I won't be on much until later since I'm going out, but discuss away and I'll agree on whatever when I come back ~