The idea for 'World Peace isn't just for Beauty Queens', came to me when I realised that there may be a way you can write clichéd love stories without it being horribly bad. My story contains the basic cliches, like the jerk, and the best friend crush, and others. But within my story I hope to contribute collective thoughts on issues such as bullying and racism, historical events such as the Holocaust and touch on teen issues, from school pressure to underage drinking. There are also issues shown through family issues and the opinion of teenagers by adults.
The difference between this and 'just any other teen story' is that I plan to explore a range of emotions and create greater psychological depth from my aspiring protagonist, to the emotional scares of her antagonist. The purpose of this story is also in relation to my ‘Guide to Writing’ in which I try to create different ways for one to write a character.
This is also an experiment on what I can write, romance is definitely not a genre I’ve written in before, I attempted once and it’s now been deleted. Whilst romance will be the main issue I wish to convey the idea that in a teenager’s life, it is not the sun their life revolves around. That as teenagers we are not one dimensional, lust-machines that have angst and rebellious. Not all teenagers care about themselves, some concern themselves with the environment, and others have to work part-time, whilst studying, due to maybe deaths in the family.
And so with this story, I wish to present a fresh look on the clichéd love story, showing the reader that, yes the story is cliché, but the characters are not. They are in themselves, individuals. The individual is something hopefully celebrated in this book.
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World Peace isn't Just for Beauty Queens
Teen Fiction"One day I hope to win a Nobel Prize, the Peace Prize, don't know how I'm going to do it, but I will." Emily Finch had only one plan, that was to get through her HSC in one piece, unscathed by other nuances that plague teenagers in their final year...
