Laura asks…
What do you think about this story idea?
It’s the story about the girl who is just behind the scenes. I really mean that. It’s from the point of view of the girl who would normally just be the friend who would hang out with the main character from time to time.
In this case it’s about a girl (Roe) who is my age, 14, and it’s from personal experiences that I’m facing in my life right now. She met a girl in grade six who she welcomed into her friend circle and they were very close for a year. Her friend (Elise) was very pretty, she was kind, funny and innocent. She never even had a boyfriend before she came to the school.
Immediately Roe amd Elise become close friends. Elise becomes friends with Carrie, a girl who was Roe’s best friend since kindergarten but had fought and were in bad terms with one another. For Elise’s sake Carrie and Roe tolerated each other. Elise was also the new prettiest girl in the school and all the boys liked her.
Elise in grade seven started dating many guys. She went through a lot an cut herself. In grade eight, Roe found out. Roe dated the boy that nobody liked, and had her first kiss with him (Nick). Roe had her own issues with her family, her friends, and she herself had bipolarity and self confidence issues. She hid them away to try and help her friend Elise.
Roe and Nick broke up, and had a bad relationship with him. He would constantly ask for her back but she said no over and over again. She had to worry about her own issues, Elise’s issues and now Nick.
Elise eventually stopped cutting herself and had now adopted the idea of YOLO. When they all graduated Roe was able to relax. Nick was gone, school work was less stressed, and her father got a better paying job so her family was happier.
Over grade eight her and Carrie had reconnected their friendship and are very close again. Elise and Carrie are best friends as well, but Roe isn’t as close to Elise as she could’ve been.
Elise had decided to become rebellious and got spacers, started drinking, smoking weed, and even got a tattoo. This took a big toll on Carrie and she ends up doing thsame, so now Roe is trying to help Carrie through Elise’s changes. Roe still feels very self concious and is worried Elise might do something stupid. Elise throws Carrie a surprise party and invites Roe in August.
Roe is scared to go but goes anyways. While she is there she sees the boys she knew in grade eight but hadn’t talk to since graduation. She’s confronted with alcohol and drugs by the boys she really liked in grade eight.
She feels like she should, so that she could just try it, and maybe understand why Elise does this to herself, and maybe the guys will like her and she could feel good about herself. She ends up saying no though, before she’s about to try it. She realizes that she doesn’t need anything of this and leave the party early with one of her friends who feels the same way (Tiana).
Her and Tiana decide to leave Elise and Carrie behind and stick together. When grade nine starts in highschool, Roe finds some new friends and surrounds herself in good influences. The story ends with her in the summer between grade nine and ten where she is with Tiana and her new friends, Gloria, Emily, Alison, James, and Dillon. Dillon is her new boyfriend. They’re sitting in the park where she sees Carrie and Noah smoking cigarettes together. They wave her over.
She talks to them and she finds out Elise got very dunk and high one night at a party and got in a fight, she’s in the police department at the moment and they think she’ll end up in juvy. Carrie and Noah invite Roe to a party and offer her a cigarette but she turns her old friends down and goes back to her new group. She gains her own self confidence and can tell when she shouldn’t be around certain people.
As I said earlier, it is based on my own experience, but the names are changed. Should I write this or not? Thanks 🙂 xo
admin answers:
Write it if you want. But, I can tell you, it is difficult to sell books like that. Why? Usually they are very boring. It takes a very experienced writer (like NY best seller list author) to write a good story. Rebel Without a Cause is a good example of a good story. Your idea is not. Hate to burst your bubble, but nothing is new. This is stupid teenage drama.
Nancy asks…
MY FRIEND IS DRIVING ME CRAZY! HELP! Urgent!?
I have a friend we’ll call Megan. I was home schooled, and since there wasn’t a whole lot of variety, Megan basically became my only oldest and dearest friend.
I’ve known her AT LEAST 9 years. I know her family too. I’m 19,she’ll be 17 in dec.
Last fall, our friendship started to spiral downhill. She started calling to unload about the drama (THAT SHE CREATED) at work. She began using me, because I have a car. She would call me to have me come pick her up from work, etc. to come “rescue†her from her house. And when we hang out, I ALWAYS had to pay: movie tickets, food–everything! I’ll never forget the time she called me at 4 AM this summer. I listened, even though I had to be at work 2 hours later. That’s what friends do, right?
She got involved with a 23 year old co worker, and started sneaking off on the clock to make out in closets with him. Her parents would be devastated if they knew. I’M THE ONLY ONE who knows. She started trying to convince me to lie to her mom for her, and have me driver her places to sneak out with him! NOT HAPPENING!
I started noticing that whenever I WOULD TALK ABOUT A GUY, SHE WOULD BLOW IT OFF, AND SAY “NAH. I DON’T THINK HE’S INTO YOU.†BUT SHE WAS sure to rub in how guys buy her drinks, etc etc pay her attention.
This summer, when I got to go wakeboarding as a rare treat for my birthday with my family. Made the mistake of inviting Megan, who was determined ot prove she could wakeboard better. She spent more time out there than I did! And acted like she didn’t care!
Labor day we were hanging out at the county fair. I’d just paid for her to get an airbrush tattoo, when I saw the guy she likes walking around with another girl. I told her, she ran thru the fair, couldn’t find him, and then told me to “JUST SHUT UP ALREADY! GEEZ! WHY CANT YOU SHUT UP!†I just walked off. That was it.
She’s apologized, I’ve told her its all good. That doesn’t mean I come back. She found me last week at the ski exchange in town, and immediately borrowed my phone–because she didn’t want ot use the minutes on hers to make a call. She wants me to give her rides up to the ski lift this winter, too. Since I can drive.
Last night she started texting me from someone else’s phone, demanding to know why I hate her. I told her i don’t hate her. THAT’S APPRENTLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH. So she wrote, “Okay you know what forget it. Ive done everything I can to make it right but you don’t give a shit so make up your mind.†WHAT DO I SAY WITHOUT BEING THE *****?!
admin answers:
Since you clearly want to maintain your relationship, be up-front yet kind and gentle. Make it clear that you feel like you’re being taken advantage of, but that you’d like to be her friend. Tell her how much you appreciate her friendship, and you love that she trusts you, but that you’d also like some space and some kindness in return. If she replies with an indifferent snort or something that tells you that she doesn’t give a damn about you, go find some real, BETTER friends, ones that are worth your time.
Maria asks…
I have this lesbian friend….?
I’m an 18 year old guy, and I have this lesbian friend that i have known for about 2 months. she, also like me, is straight edge. We met eachother on facebook through a straight edge fan club we were in and instantly became friends. After she added me, we immediatly clicked and have a lot in common. we havent had time to hang out yet, but she talks to me every day on facebook, and even gave me her cell number, all before meeting me in person. she has really opened up to me and told me personal stuff and really cares about our friendship. I feel the same way as well. We’re planning to hang out this friday for my birthday to hang out, and get to know eachother better, and shes coming with when i get my first tattoo. she also told me she doesnt have any straight edge friends, and I told her I dont either, and she also said shes not that good at making friends, indicating she doesnt have a whole lot of friends. I find that shocking because she is unlike anyone ive met. shes extremely unique, nice, and beautiful. i mean, i know why im so interested in her, i’m the one who friend requested her in the first place. My theory is because we can relate because we’re straight edge and we both find girls attractive (she told me she doesnt have many guy friends) anyways, I was wondering though, why is she opening up to me like this telling me all this stuff about her family and about her social life?? I truly hope we become best friends forever. =) =) =)
admin answers:
Maybe she feels safer confiding in a guy that will only be a friend and has so many shard interests with
Mandy asks…
How do you say “Family” and “friendship” in Irish Gaelic?
I’m thinking of getting a tattoo and I wanted to have Family and Friendship written in Gaelic and I’m just trying to make sure I have the right words. Is “Clann” correct for family, and “Cairdeas” correct for friendship?
admin answers:
“Clann” means “children” in Scottish Gaelic, not “family.”
EDIT: I meant to say Irish Gaelic above, but it’s the same in Scottish Gaelic as well.
Robert asks…
What is the latin for “family”, “friends” and “self”/”individual”?
This summer I got the word “Aequitas” tattooed down my left leg. I’d now like to complement that with Latin translations of the words above, each as an individual statement.
Also, what’s the difference between “amici”, “amicus” and “amicitia”, all of which I have seen for “friend” or “friendship“?
Oh, and I didn’t want them all to tie in. Each one is an individual statement of something I believe in
admin answers:
Not sue I understand what you’re after. Aequitas is justice, equity, fairness, etc. Do you want the words to tie in to this in any way? That might case the endings to change.
At any rate, the nominative forms are;
Family = familia (as the household family) or sanguinis (family related by blood).
Friends = amici
Self = Tough one – no direct Latin equivalent as a stand alone word. Closest would be ‘homo’, which means ‘man’, but also is used for ‘person, individual’. However, that’s probably not a good choice for obvious reasons.
Maybe ‘solus’, an adjective, standing for the sole one.
ADDED: Latin had cases and number. The endings on the nouns tell you the function in the sentence and whether it’s singular or plural. The cases are: nominative – subject of sentence; genitvie – possive; dative – indirect object; accusative – direct object; ablative – agent. That’s a thumbnail sketch. Words are, by practice, given in the nominative case. Plus, all words have gender – which does not necessarily relate to the sex of whatever the noun is. And yet one more – some nouns have different forms if the person is male or female – and friend is one of those.
Amicus = Friend, nominative singular.If you go to a dictionary, this is the word you will see listed for ‘friend’.
Amica = Female friend, nom sing. May also mean sweetheart or even mistress.
Amici = Friends, nominative plural. This may be a group all male or mixed male/female, but not all female.
Amicae = Friends, nom plural, more than one friend, all female.
Amicitia = Friendship. The Latin ‘-tia’ ending fills the same role as the ‘-ship’ ending in English in this case. This noun happens to be a feminine noun, but that’s just to tell you how the endings work – has nothing to do with the sex of the individuals. It does not change for male vs, female.
As you can see, Latin is different.
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