Just letting you all know I'm starting to co-write a short noval with my best friend. Its probably going to take us months, considering its hard to find spare time in university (with school and having a social life) to write a noval.

Just wanted your input on the premise though:

Main character: Girl. Family never really around, friends always with boyfriends, not really into party scene. Goes online one day and meets a guy. They become friends and soon realize that they are falling for each other. Catch? She lives in Canada and he lives in Australia (or something like that, haven't really decided the places yet). They fall in love with each other. He makes her feel special (no he isnt lying to her, he generally loves her and isnt some sicko pervert).

Thats just the starting point. I'm not really sure what to do with it yet. Its loosely based on mine and my friend's life. I'm not really sure what to do with the characters though. Should they meet? Really truely love each other? One move to the other's country? etc., etc.

Any input would really help.
Thanks!

hmmm... sounds interesting. maybe the girl could beg her parents to go to australia for summer vacation or something? and then they could meet. i dunno.

Sounds fun...I'm sure it'll be great! Have u read mine...darkness? ;)

i think that would be really good, really cute
have u started yet?

dat sounds like ma story..........omg....he was ma cuzuns mate n we got tlkin..............omg online haaaaaaa dat ma life

That happened to me pretty much .. Thats one of the reasons Im going to India! cause thats where he lives. i wasnt really planning on telling anybody that tho...

omgggggggggggg well da guy i like moved 2 dubai....so guess where i persuaded ma rents 2 take me dubai...he moved 4rm ere 2 live wiv his dad.

omg is he asian

Wow...seems like there are a few other people like me....internet relationships. I met my guy about 15 months ago. We were only friends at first, and then we started to talk more and more. He asked me to be his girlfriend about 8 months after we started talking and we've been together for almost 7 months. A lot of people don't understand it though. I guess its understandable. You can't fully understand something if you haven't experienced something like it yourself. Also, with all the rumors and bad things that go on around the internet it also concerns people. Most of my friends know and my sisters know. My Mom knows that I talk to a guy in Australia and she is no dummy, so she suspects there is something more too it. My Dad always thinks I have a boyfriend (when it fact this guy is my first boyfriend ever) and my step-father doesn't know. He is paranoed and doesn't trust the internet at all. Where my friend comes into it is that she is friends with him too. I met him first and then a few weeks later she was over and she and I talked to him. He spends most of his time with me though. I mean we've had our problems. Our frustrations of being so far apart and not being able to be together, but we're surviving. He is going to try and come out and see me late next summer and I plan on going there in 2006/2007 for my study abroad term. However, I don't know where it will go from there. You always think in every relationship: could they be "the one". In this one, I really don't know. He could be the one, but are either of us willing to risk something big for it? He has told me plenty of times that he really isn't sure if he believe in forever and that he doesn't really believe in marriage. Me? I don't know. I think marriage is just something that makes a relationship even more solid. And forever? I believe in the possiblity and hopefullness of forever. For him and I to have that possiblity one of us would have to make the big move one day. I know he would never move here: #1. he hates the cold and even though it doesn't get that cold in my part of Canada, he still probably wouldn't like it that much and #2. his life is in Australia. And the thing is for me, I could see myself moving to Australia since I'm only in my first year of university, I could make my life in Australia afterwards. It would be a lot of hard work, but I could do it. But, I wouldn't do it before I had more of a garauntee for him and us. I'm not talking a proposal or anything. I would just want his word that our relationship would be more of a long term thing. But, the other thing is I don't know if he would let me make the move. He believes in "dont cry because its over, smile because it happened"....so, I don't know. Its very complicated. But I love him and care about him a lot and I know he feels the same way.......



Anyway, thats where I got the inspiration for my story. I've sort of started it, but I'm having a bit of writers block. Its hard for me to express myself and since its loosley based on me its quite hard to put it into words. Anyway, I've babbled long enough.

@ least people dain try n split u up or shit stir......n @ least ur family understands.no1 in ma family kno

Same, I told my mom once that I was talking to a couple people on the internet, and she gave me this huge lecture! and then took my comp away for a week, so im not exactly allowed here, or anywhere else really where there are rela people lol

lol mine dnt kno n im gna keep it dat way

Yeah, my b/f said that when he comes here he may force me to introduce me to introduce him and my parents. He said that way my parents wont mind so much when he steals me away there for a Christmas...lol. I'd love to go there for this Christmas...its less expensive now, but it would still wipe out my savings, although I would have a place to stay..with him. He said if he wins the lottery he wants me to come see him. We'll see what happens.

Wow, I love it!
And I so agree about the internet thing...I talked to some ppl at internet and my mom gave me this huge lecture as well...

mine dnt kno n im gna keep it like dat...da less she knoes da betta.....

I've decided to show the first paragraph of my story.




Hayden lay on her bed staring up at the ceiling. It was a Saturday night and she was, again, alone. This seem to have become her usual routine.
Her brother, Cody, was away at university, her other brother, Toby, was now living in Venice, Italy with his new wife, Sapphire, and her menacing twin little sisters, Rain and Dakota, were off reeking havoc at their little menacing friend’s house. Her parents? They were always travelling for work and were hardly ever home. And as for her so-called posse of friends? Well, they were all too busy with their boyfriends to pay any attention to her.
She let out a sigh. She was so sick of this. She could go to that party across down, but she really wasn’t much of a party girl. She had been drunk a few times and it had been okay, but not something she was raced to do every weekend. Frankly, to her most of those parties seemed like a huge hormone and testosterone fest. She hated the idea of the one night stand, and for that, she thought, she would forever remain a virgin.
There was only one thing that Hayden was truly passionate for - her dancing. When she danced, she felt fully free to be her. Nothing else mattered when her body moved to the beat in her head. However, now she couldn’t even dance due to the car accident last year when she fractured her right hip. She had been doing the physical therapy every day vigorously, but the eyes of her physical therapist didn’t lie - her hip would never been the same again.
“Damn it!” she cried out exasperatedly, “what the hell is wrong with me?” she continued as she jumped off her bed.
She pulled her favourite sweater over her head, slipped on her fuzzy purple slippers and made her way down from her loft in the attic to the kitchen.
Once there she made herself a chai latte with the cappuccino machine, heated up some left over chicken casserole grabbed her backpack and made her way back up to her room. Maybe she’d try and get a head start on her English essay.
She sat down at her desk and clicked her computer on. She sipped her chai as she watched the computer come to life. She frowned at her English assignment sitting on her desk.
“Screw the assignment,” she thought, “I think its time for some mindless chat,” she continue as she logged onto her yahoo account.
She talked to a few friends that she hadn’t talk to in a few weeks and a few new people in the chat rooms said hi, but they didn’t really seem all that interested in having a conversation with her. She was about to log off and maybe have a bath when someone messaged her.