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Realistic or Modern The wrong side of the tracks (high school)

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After the well known prep school blue water heights unexpectedly burned down. The lives of the students attending would change as they knew it. Having to be bussed to a few different public schools, the students sent to cane ridge learn the hard way how hard life can be. Cane ridge is the school on the slums of the east side. This school was no stranger to violence, gangs, drugs, teen pregnancy, you name it. Metal directors decorate every entrance and multiple security guards are on call. This drastic cultural shock may actually prove to be good for some of the students, others may fall down the wrong paths. In the end lives will be changed.


So I'm thinking the story follows 10ish friends? 5 from both schools? That way we don't have an overload of people. Any ideas, questions, comments,concerns feel free to let me know!


[ this is a rough outline]
 
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The plot for this sounds great! It actually leads to a lot of ideas. Maybe an ongoing storyline on figuring out who burned the school? There would be some prejudice against the cane ridge students, maybe even some accusations so that would be fun too. Or it could just be written off as an accident and focus more on the relationships the students forms? There's a lot going for this is all I'm saying so count me in as interested.
 
Sounds good so far to me as well! I'll probably have up two characters if there aren't any restraints for sexuality and race/ethnicity, and I'll look forward to seeing how this turns out
 
I found this idea interesting. I would be very interested in exploring the differing social economic cultures. xxx. I would be interested in working on a story where characters experience a shift in social economic culture.

I was having similar thoughts as DlaBell: I was contemplating on if the story should be finding out if someone burned down the school or making if character focus. Perhaps we could discuss and vote if we do that or work more on the characters.

Questions I have
1. How rich are the parents/kids?
Is this your tuition-is-45.000+ school or slightly nicer higher school. I feel that the more drastic the better.
2. When you mentioned "buses", I had this idea that Blue Water Heights had dorms?
3. Where is this taken? Which country? A fictional country?

Ideas
1. Maybe I am wrong, but I feel this is a story with less adults. I kind of like the idea of parents kind of just being absent, so that is where dorms would come in.
Dorm Idea: the school burned down but not the dorms which are a little separated from the school and classroom. The school uses buses and takes them from dorms down to the different public schools.

2. School on hill idea: I also imaged the school is on a hill separate from the public schools, which are down in the city, and its where a lot of the poor reside. It is the only nice school in the area

Also I wanted to discuss the idea of writing a mystery of who burned the school down versus writing a character story of kids adapting and surviving life at school.

Exclusive fish out of water idea

-Pro: Personally, I feel the draw of your story is the fish out of water premise
-Pro: From your description, it seemed you were more leaning in this direction.
-Pro: On our parts I think it would be more fun to write how our characters grow and survive the new conditions and interact with other character who have always gone to the public school.
-Con: Whatever storyline we end up going with we will explore this anyway.
-Con: I don't have any ideas and its still early, but I would like something more than the goal of the characters is to survive and not get hurt. I would want to write characters going after a definite goal.

Mystery story
-Pro: It would give the characters a goal to have and an ending
-Con: A mystery is more complex and I think demands a little more planning.

Let me know what you think. Thank you for reading.
 
Red122 said:
I found this idea interesting. I would be very interested in exploring the differing social economic cultures. xxx. I would be interested in working on a story where characters experience a shift in social economic culture.

I was having similar thoughts as DlaBell: I was contemplating on if the story should be finding out if someone burned down the school or making if character focus. Perhaps we could discuss and vote if we do that or work more on the characters.

Questions I have
1. How rich are the parents/kids?
Is this your tuition-is-45.000+ school or slightly nicer higher school. I feel that the more drastic the better.
2. When you mentioned "buses", I had this idea that Blue Water Heights had dorms?
3. Where is this taken? Which country? A fictional country?

Ideas
1. Maybe I am wrong, but I feel this is a story with less adults. I kind of like the idea of parents kind of just being absent, so that is where dorms would come in.
Dorm Idea: the school burned down but not the dorms which are a little separated from the school and classroom. The school uses buses and takes them from dorms down to the different public schools.

2. School on hill idea: I also imaged the school is on a hill separate from the public schools, which are down in the city, and its where a lot of the poor reside. It is the only nice school in the area

Also I wanted to discuss the idea of writing a mystery of who burned the school down versus writing a character story of kids adapting and surviving life at school.

Exclusive fish out of water idea

-Pro: Personally, I feel the draw of your story is the fish out of water premise
-Pro: From your description, it seemed you were more leaning in this direction.
-Pro: On our parts I think it would be more fun to write how our characters grow and survive the new conditions and interact with other character who have always gone to the public school.
-Con: Whatever storyline we end up going with we will explore this anyway.
-Con: I don't have any ideas and its still early, but I would like something more than the goal of the characters is to survive and not get hurt. I would want to write characters going after a definite goal.

Mystery story
-Pro: It would give the characters a goal to have and an ending
-Con: A mystery is more complex and I think demands a little more planning.

Let me know what you think. Thank you for reading.
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I was thinking of it taking place around the area of Chicago Illinois. It's in the city and the schools are only about an hour apart, the cultural difference in the area is very drastic. While the prep school children were more born into money, tuition being around 50,000 a year. Give or take with who you know and your social status. Parents wont ne much of an issue seeing as how most "rich parents" don't raise the children they have and after a certain age nannies are obsolete. The lower class parents are working constantly,in jail, ect. I prefer the fish out of water idea and sort of seeing where the chips may fall.
 
How long do you prefer our responses to be?
How long do the rich students have to go to the public schools until there is an alternative? A year? Six months?
 
Red122 said:
How long do you prefer our responses to be?
How long do the rich students have to go to the public schools until there is an alternative? A year? Six months?
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I love your question.
I would like atleast a paragraph, however I understand writer's block at times.
The prep school is being rebuilt and should be done with in 6 months [maybe something can happen and that extends to a year?]
 
Hello, me again!

Just a question: is there a maximum number of characters we're allowed to have? And is there any condition to it, like half are at Cane Ridge and half were from Blue Water Heights?
 
Sorry I was super sleepy last night and forgot to add that. I will be accepting 10 characters right now and I would like everyone to submit just one for now. If it seems noone wants to join we can bump up to 2. I would like 5 from each school but I will be a bit lenient on that.
 
Red122 said:
Hey guys where do you find your pictures for your characters?
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I know that some people like to look for Instagram models whereas others may lean towards actors, actresses, Youtubers, and people in the entertainment industry. There's also google and if you search certain terms, it may lead you to a model's portfolio which has a whole gallery of pictures. From then on, it all depends on what you prefer!
 
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