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Is this an adequate storyline for a novel?
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Question by Trevor H: Is this an adequate storyline for a novel?
I’m currently looking to write a small novel(I’m 16) and thought up this storyline and plot. Sure, there are kinks to it and if people out there that are better at writing could help me out, I would appreciate it. Feel free to put your own thoughts in there as to changing something or adding something new altogether. Also, a title would be nice also. Right now, I’m thinking of calling it The Irony of Normalcy.
Harley Whister, technical and science teenage prodigy at the age of 16 is overcome with the pressures and solidarity of being so remarkably intelligent and expected to be the next Einstein so to speak. His whole life he has known that his gift of intelligence is unique and that his mind operates at a different and higher level than anyone his age and most older than he. Harley was sent to an academy of higher learning at the young, tender age of 6, so he never got to interact and have the “normal” childhood experiences. He feels very deprived and bitter that once again, he is not like anyone else and does not experience the same things that normal kids have. He’s never been to the zoo, on a roller coaster, etc. Harley is overcome with a personal quest for normalcy in his life. However, he finds himself trapped within the walls of the academy, where the only people around him 24/7 are nearly as smart as he is. His sense of normalcy is distorted and soon his quest becomes more like an obsession. For once, he doesn’t want to be seen as the super-bright teen, but rather as a normal human-being. It is ironic how a normal human-being can lead such a life away from the everyday norm. His friends around him notice his increasing self-exclusion and solidarity, and start to worry. For a teen once used to following the rules, his actions now turn to what he thinks is normal teenage attitude. Often times, Harley remarks about how he is disgusted with society and the materialistic ways in which more time is spent with objects of artificial intelligence rather than w/ people of true intelligence. Despite this, he convinces himself that whatever it takes for his peers to see him as normal, he will do it. If that means sacrificing his morals, he will do so.
Harley is fed up with the people who expect him to be something he does not want to be. He explains that he has a dream of doing something else w/ his talents, but never says what. As his quest for normalcy starts to highten, Harley grows to new levels of prestige and is gaining national recognition for his scientific intelligence. This only increases his feeling for seclusion and solidarity from the people around him, even in the academy. Because of this, his obsession reaches boiling points in which intervention is necessary. He fails to recognize that this obsession for normalcy will lead him nowhere, only to mental breakdowns. His mental health is taking a steep nosedive but with no true way to stop it.
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Answer by Violet
Not my type, but very inventive word choice. Girls like guys who can write. ;]
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I REALLY like this. It’s very interesting. Very attention catching. I think that it would be incredibly head spinning (IN A GOOD WAY) to get inside the next Einstein’s head and journey with him to his quest to be normal. That’s really incredible. And i think that this is great. And this really reaches out to everyone, cuz who doesn’t have the feeling of being not normal…not just super geniuses. Good job. Can’t wait for it to get published.
ok this is a good, maybe great storyline! at first i thought that harley was being whiney and pissy but at the end on the final sentence made me think it’s good! i like the story line but i can’t write whatsoever so sorry!
Your plot is quite unusual and intriguing; you must try to write it so as to make it compelling. I need to comment, though, that you are using the word solidarity incorrectly; it means cohesiveness within a group. What you mean, I think, is solitary or solitariness, the condition of being alone. If you can write your story so that you can give life to Harley and his associates, describing Harley’s thoughts, internal conflicts, and interactions with his cohorts dramatically so as to produce an appealing novel, you very well could have an original creation. Give it a try! What do you have to lose? If it never makes the “New York Times” best sellers list, you still will gain the satisfaction from having written a complete story. I think that should consider a different title, since your proposed title reveals too much about the probable outcome of the plot. You might consider “A Quest for Normalcy”. I have another tip for you: Be careful about becoming to repetitious in your writing; don’t overuse the word normalcy, but find various methods and terms for telling the tale of Harley’s search to be ordinary, for instance. Good luck!