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DARE TO GO TOO FAR ...
in your book. Press the limits, push the boundaries of what you think will work, then make it work somehow.
Aren't you as a reader tired of seeing the same old thing :
shy girl goes to new school and meets a hot bad boy who turns out to be :
a werewolf, a vampire, a cross-dressing son of a mad scientist (caught you with that last one, didn't I?)
How about a tiger named Hobbes who imagines his human boy doll is alive and talks to him?
Spin the expected on its ear. You will snare bored readers, making them your loyal fans.
You can't go beyond yourself. No matter how strange your twist ... shadows who live and breathe, casting people behind them as they walk in the sun. No matter your idea, it will still have the stamp of your personality, your style of writing.
Be open to any whim drifting from your unconscious. To create means to think beyond the limits we have placed upon our muse. The mind has no boundaries. The imagination is the key to infinity ...
and to bestsellers.
A persecuted boy cracks. He climbs to the top of the school with a rifle and the school's yearbook. He starts shooting.
His persecutors? No. He shoots every nice person he knows. Why?
To spare them the hurt he knows is waiting for them as it waited for him.
BE A TROUBLE MAKER!
Break the rules. The shy girl falls in love with the vampire. His love for her turns him human. Now, his coven is out to turn them both!
Extreme is good.
The vampire was confident and kind. As a human he is sullen and snotty. The girl wants him to be a vampire again even if it means the death of innocents.
Her shyness hid her selfishness. The vampire realizes what a monster she would turn into if she becomes a vampire. He kills them both ...
as a gesture of the last remnants of his kindness.
The only rule :
everything in your novel must serve a purpose, down to the painting of the dying swan on the girl's bedroom wall.
It is what he looks at as he smothers the girl he loves. He sees not the monster she has become but the lovely, shy swan he thought her to be when he first saw her.
Everything in your novel must do double-duty.
The murder of the girl. The painting of the dying swan. Even going to the prom. The surface meaning. The meaning behind the character doing it.
Have we moved beyond the rules, beyond the boundaries of what you think possible?
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Choose your side!
