Hey guys!
This is a story about me, Alice Day!
I'm seventeen years old and for some reason everyone at school hates me! The only reason I can see why is because I'm so hideous. My best friend Kate, says I'm beautiful - and when I look in the mirror - trying to avoid my my great big boobs, which just try to cover up my petite figure! - all I can see is an ugly girl, with long perfectly curled blonde hair, flawless skin and bright blue eyes. She must be blind!
Yes. I am being deadly seriously. Unfourtunately for me and you, more than a couple hundred books or so have this beginning or at least something similar to this description at some point during the story. It's unbelievable.
I am not saying in any kind of that the main female character should be hideous just to match their looks - heck, I even love it when there's an extremely sassy and incredibly sexy female character who knows it and works with it... but I hate this kind of female character.
Hate, hate, hate!
She doesn't need to be vein and bitchy, but just if she was like:
Actually, I hate having big boobs. But rather than see them as a hinder, a use them to my advantages - and trust me, they come in handy a lot!
Or:
Jonathan calls me pretty and beautiful. I struggled to believe it at first, after so many put downs' through my life... but now, now I finally feel it. I am confident, sexy and god damn beautiful. This is my life, I'll feel how I want to feel!
Or even:
Hell yeah! I look just so damn edible tonight! Isaac's not gonna be able to keep his hands off me! I don't care what anyone thinks - I've been blessed with beauty. I don't normally like shoving it in people's faces... but tonight, everyone's gonna want me!
See? It's less painful to read when said like this! So please, I beg you, writers of Wattpad - stop using the 'perfect reject' - we don't want loners to be beautiful and perfect and whine about it continouesly! We want a little bit of variety! And even if she doesn't think she's beautiful, when she clearly is - give her a reason why!
Was she picked on at a very young age for being chubby?
Was she abused by a family member?
Was her heart broken?
So many options! Just come up with a reason why this character loathes herself so much!
Thanks you and good night!
- Nora Valentine
