What would you make the plot of this story about based on the title?

I never title first. You should always ask your story what the title should be. As you write, it will tell you.
Scrap the title, swing a stick, and you will hit a subject.

Is it a typo where you wrote “but I’m at a loss for a name”? Did you mean “but I’m at a loss for a plot”?

Are you asking for a whole plot? Can you help by providing any other parameters? Length? Genre? Style? Tragic? Comic? Anything else?

I have an understanding, just it’s much too hard to explain. I have a thousand plot ideas for this, but none work for me. They all failed after I had created the title.

http://i.imgur.com/tnfkHl9.jpg and this is the cover /:

I don’t care about the title or the cover. Those are the things a publisher comes up with, not the author. fyi.

I just said that since a cover can change everything. A book could be called “Puppy Time” and that sounds cute, but a cover full of dead dogs would change it altogether.

Is the assignment to come up with a title and a cover or to write a story?

All three, but right now we’re working on the cover and design.

THAT isn’t how writing a book works. First, you write the story and submit it to a publisher. The publisher comes up with the title (in most instances) and the writer, writes the story. If you have to write a story, you should start with that. How long does the story have to be?

Are you working in a group with this assignment?

This isn’t going to be published, though. It’s a group project and we’re all thinking of ideas.

Your first sentence was ‘I’m doing a writing task’ Is that the case or isn’t it?

It is the case.

OK.. so coming up with the title and the cover is what the publishers do for Marketing. Marketing is not writing. You need to write your story. I like the title and the cover art, but first and foremost, you need a story.

@Buunii, What type of stories do you like? What movies or TV shows stick in your head?

Go for it, cazzie. Let’s work with her.

If you want to send comments in PM, feel free to do so as well.

Did you read the two ideas I gave you? What were they?

Did you EVER answer any questions that I proposed to draw out topics that might inspire you?

@Buunii how about you write a response that actually counts for something. This is YOUR thread.

Clouded Minds- a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Actually, I think the story is about a junior high student who is given an assignment by a teacher who doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing. She goes on this site similar to Fluther, but reamains unnamed in the story. She asked the question as stated above and the denizens answer as they did here. The girl gets snarky at the first answer and is pounded for it. A couple of members try to turn the tide to get back on task, but the girl becomes entrenched.

The end isn’t written yet. It could be a feel good ending, or it could be otherwise. It’s up to the author, of course.

But it also could have very little to do with the original title which is cool, because the story either way is really all about the idiocy of starting title first. And, by the back door, demolishes the unnamed teacher who designed this assignment.

I think that would be a great story. And you would be sticking it to the dumbass who gave you this assignment. If written well, the teacher would have to accept it and grade it appropriately.

If you are interested, Buuni, this kind of thing is right up our alley here. LOL. Stickin’ it to the Man.

It’s actually about a girl with ADHD.

Wait what? Who is the girl with ADHD? the teacher or the student?

Oh, so you had a character idea all along then? I see.

OK. That’s good. A teacher who doesn’t know what they are doing, and a kid with ADHD who really wants to do well. That’s good. What else?

If you want a parent’s view of a child with ADHD and Autism in a teaching environment, I can help you. My oldest has infantile autism and my youngest has ADHD and Asperger syndrome. We deal and are rather awesome.

Clouded Minds- A group of Southern California high school students enjoy their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.

As a writer, I respectfully but adamantly disagree with @Patty_Melt. There’s no such thing as “never” in writing. Arbitrary rules like never start a story with a title are silly and counterproductive.

In my experience, titles CAN often lead to a story, or at least provide a direction. I’ve written many stories, poems and ads that started with a title that sometimes just popped into I my head, just someimes just a word. It’s called creativity.

@Buunii, I won’t try to suggest a story for your intriguing title. The story has to evolve out of your own feelings experiences and I believe to honor your assignment it has to be your job to dig it out, no matter how hard that may be. But I salute you for making the effort to write and I encourage you to keep digging.

OP has left the building???

How does the story end?

This is a story about an unusual girl, a girl so unusual her parents send her to see a psychiatrist. The sessions are confrontational as the girl is strong willed as well as unusual. As the conversations proceed it becomes apparent that the mind of the psychiatrist is as closed as the books in her office and that the girl is a highly gifted and original thinker.

Thanks @flutherother

@Buunii has left the building it seems. Oh well.

I haven’t seen a thread so heavily modded since the one that was (redacted by the CIA)!

Yeah, pretty heavy handed modding for sure. When the bough breaks…lol

That’s okay, I remember every single word. I have the uncondensed version in my head.
We should name this the Reader’s Digest thread.

the girl was, apparently 12 years old, and lied about her age in the post saying she was a junior in high school.

“This is the story all about how,
My life got flip-turned upside down…”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sooo my 12 yr. old guess was spot on? Hah..well, I am quite intuitive. :-p
I had to refrain from commenting that even if she was a Jr. in H.S. that still only made her a whopping 4–5 years older than 12. lol

What was all the moderation about? I miss everything!!!!

@MollyMcGuire You missed a troll high score of 120+ replies culminating in someone posting an entire multi-act story that was longer than the entire thread.

@MollyMcGuire A new, now gone member that wanted advice for a story she was writing and got angry with us for our responses and critique of her methodology. She started off insutling and defensive and then some of us gave her a bit of flack and well…it went from there.

Entire novel loaded to block her from the thread.
Stellar!

What is the purpose of leaving this question accessible if most of the responses are removed and the question asker wasn’t even of age to have an account here? Wouldn’t it be easier for the mods and best for the site to just pull the plug on this mess?

Noooooo.
You can learn from everything, especially mess.
Each thread is a learning tool, not just for the one who posted it either.
Stick around long enough, watch, and you will soon see.
Sometimes one thread will help dozens of people with the same or similar issue.
Also, we like to go back and visit the most ridiculous threads when we want a laugh.
See if you can find Janet.
No clues unless you stick with Fluther at least six months.

Thank you. I’m not new to Q&A’s. I get it.

I wish some of the answers weren’t deleted, though. It was a cautionary tale.

Too bad this was in general.

^^You’re right, Cap’n!

I missed the entire thing. The mods gutted it. So sad.

Guess I’ll start over.

Once upon a time…