Man. Since no one is willing to start a new project. I think I'll start one.

Have this idea Name - Project : High School.

Genre - Realistic Fiction

Summary - Writing about typical high school lives. Basically writing about many stories students faced in a high school. Since usually, aged 13-18 is where we form cliques and have sorta quite a lot of drama here and there. So yes. I was hoping for a more realistic fiction this time. Maybe a little dark writing and light writing =p

How - Everybody can use anybody's character created. But if lets say character created by others is written wrongly, for example "A happy cheerful boy" you wrote about him "attempting to commit suicide" Lol its a little unexceptionable. So yeah do take note

Posting - We will be posting in SCENES. People shall write full scenes of the post. State the Time and Place as the very first line of the post If multiple scenes written, please indicate Time and Place to be above the scene written.

Its just a rough Draft, if interested please comment and give a NAME for the school =p

Background - Well, in singapore we for a "Standard class"(A list of students in the same class for all their classes for the year)with a standard Classroom. So i'm not sure about other's schools. So yeah if we can combine cultures and elements for all places it will be delightful. Also, students from age 13-16 goes to "secondary school"

This would be interesting. The class I was in at my old school was horribly cliquey, so I'm sure it'd be easy for me to come up with something for this. >.o.

Um, as for a name of the school, I have no idea. How about "Central"?

I chose High School Since its a little more Dramatic. As we grow up. We got more mature and yeah >.>

Central High Sounds Good too. Oh I forgot.

Do try to write a little of your school system too =p

In high school, it's grades 9-12 (Freshman: 9, Sophomore: 10, Junior: 11, Senior: 12) that are in the same school. Basically, we each have our own certain schedule of classes. We'll be in a class with some of our piers in science for first period, then when we have math during second period we'll have a different group of people from our class (with some people who share classes, etc.). If someone's in an advanced math, they sometimes have a class with Sophomores or Juniors even.

For classes like French/Spanish/art/music, etc., we'll usually be in a mix of grades (unless we're in a higher French class, in which case we'll most likely just be with fellow 9th/10th/11th/12th graders, depending which class we're in.). There are usually four minutes between classes, so we have time to go to our lockers/whathaveyou in between them.

Everybody eats lunch together (two different lunch times though). People go to different floors for lockers depending on the class. School hours (for the school I used to go to) are 7:55-3:05 (so usually 8 to 3, sometimes for public schools it's 'til 3:30 or even 2:30.).

That's basically how things went. Hope that sort of made sense. >.o.

I'm not sure what you want Bloo but I'll try my best, I went to High School in Pennsylvania, USA so if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them, the High School was actually in the middle of a university town so it had the typical university town feel to it. Horrible drivers, nightly parties, small town yet rather culturally sophisticated from the wide diversity of the university. A few stores, but no wal-mart nearby a kinda quaint small town feel to it even though it was next to a larger city.

You want to call it Central High? sounds good. I can put you guys in the shoes of a character that might go to this school if you would like.

12:30 - Second Block Lunch Central High

Matt sat at his table, conveiently located next to where the administrators sat for a reason. He had no wish to be disturbed while he hurridly gulped down his lunch. As his eyes swept the lunch rooms he didn't see cliquis as other might see them, but he considered every student his enemy so it didn't matter anyways. The only place that mattered was the Libary and he wanted to make this as quick as possible.

There was a clatter of a plastic tray hitting the table that caused him to look up from his food, and a little red-headed boy even younger than him stared at him for a few seconds as if challenging him to dispute his choice of seating. Matt stayed silent and tried to ignore him. It wasn't easy, Matt was a junior and this kid looked younger than a freshman sort of a curiosity. He paused in his attempt at eating burnt school macaroni and decided the new arrival was more interesting. He tried to remember where he had seen him. He looked familiar.

"I seen you in the park." he said his eyes flashing mischievously. Matt winced and braced himself for any taunts or jibes that might follow, if he had recognized him then he knew what Matt's pastime was.

"You looked kinda cool in that chain mail, is it real?" Matt groaned audibly. For some reason he had found it a good idea over the years to make sure his weekend warrior gig didn't filter over into school. But if this kid wasn't here with a gang, he must be by himself. It was probably ok to tell.

"Ya its real, I made the chainmaile myself." Matt said carefully. Now realizing where he had seen the kid. "Were you the one who almost slammed into me on the bridge with your bike?" Matt reflexively rubbed his wrist which he had almost sprained when he jumped out of the kid's way seconds from being roadkill.

The red-head nodded and tried to laugh between bites of his sandwich, almost choking on it.

"That hill is a pain in the butt isn't it?" Matt smiled as he tried to picture the scare the kid must have had when he had come around that blind corner next to the bridge and couldn't stop in time, both sides restricted by the guardrails of the bridge.

"Does that stuff float?" he gasped between coughs as he tried to clear his windpipe. Matt eyes narrowed as he remembered the monster belly flop he had made in the three feet of water of the creek. The boy hadn't come here to make fun of him as he had first suspected had he?

"The water wasn't very deep, I almost sprained my wrist when I landed and my shield was slammed above me." Matt said slowly.

Somewhere in the bowels of the school a bell rang and the sound of hundreds of kids suddenly shifting their task from eating to trying to get up and walk to their next classes rang out in the clatter of many chairs being pushed into the tables and trays being picked up and last talks being continued more loudly than before as groups of friends broke up.

Matt got up to ask the boy's name but he didn't say anything as he silently melted into the crowd. On the table where his tray had been was a paper flier.

If you guys want to turn this into a chain story, where everyone contributes a new character, but takes turns telling the story from that person's point of view I think this would be an interesting project. I'll give you an example I just introduced Matt and this Mysterious red-headed kid, and one of you two could pick your own character and think how he or she fits into the story I started, or even start another point of view separate from my characters that can eventually fit into the overall tale.

I'm not sure if it was what you guys had originally intended, but I think it would be fun. Whacha say? Once the story picks up, it will be fun!

Thanks Paw, but its still on planning =p, so yeah, the story will be on another thread when we decide to start, first we need to have a good plan for the school system. and well perhaps some school rules(major ones that is). and of course time of school and what time school closes. But I appreciate your posting =p

BTW, in singapore, we end school in secondary school around 2.30pm, 2 recess breaks for upper levels(15 year old and above) and lower levels(13-14). For classes which doesn't requires external resources or equipments like maths and english, students will stay in their standard classroom for classes. Yes, which means most of the students in the same class studies almost similar subjects. Which is why.

To avoid this being too similar to RP, please write finish to scene =) Yes, we can write it in different point of views. Sorta like a chain story too as what Paw mentioned above.

I hate writing about high school. Mostly because I'm in it. But whatever, this will boost activity.

Now, what you want is it...

A Cycle - ie: same characters, same universe with maybe small variations between authors, but always different story.

What basically is RP - chronological order, everyone focuses on their OC.

Because a cycle allows a lot more freedom for everyone, if you know what I mean. Think Lovecraft and how his friends would create a complex mythos after he died by using some of the ideas he created, and some of the places and characters he did. Consider it. Cycle stories are stand alone, and what we all would have in common is a set of characters, a setting, teachers, etc.

I think I'm going way off what you actually want, though.




Also, I'm pretty sure I'm at least a little familiar with the way you describe the Singapore system, since that's similar to how they did it in Ukraine. In the US, which I imagine almost everyone here is from, it's a little different. Everyone has an individual class list and almost no one shares all of their classes with another person unless it's a genuine coincidence or it's a really special case. School is split somewhere between 7-9 periods depending on the length of classes (which is 40-50 minutes, the overall amount of time spent in school is the same).

I'm trying very badly to avoid it being too similar to RP. But not, we don't just focus on your own OC, more of you round up all characters (Even characters not created by you if you want). Maybe focus a few characters in a particular scene, like in a novel. I think its more challenging as it sorta test on different point of views you get different kinds of reaction from different character

But yeah, I do hope to be slightly in chronological order. At least don't stray too far. For example, DB posted about day, "18 August" currently and you start posting a "7 July" for no reason xD (Flash Back not included)

Well, we do have split classes too, for example, during a particular period of lesson, lets say Art/Home economics, students taking art will head to the art room while home economics will go to their own specific rooms. Basically usually only elective subjects.

Well, I was afraid that the chain story idea might get re classed as RP, but the idea really isn't. You aren't playing a character or even one character you are writing a story, but you are using many different authors to do it. The fun in such an idea is that each author tells the story a different way with a different voice. I've done them before, and if its done right a good chain or forum story can be really interesting and fun. The problem is organization, and as you said it, plot. From my experience they work better without an actual set plot in the beginning so it doesn't stall from writers trying to fit their ideas into a jelly mold, but the world has to be well defined.

As much as I like complete freefrom I know from experience if a set of rules is defined it can keep the story from being taken over completely by one or two authors, which is fine sometimes if they are very good, but often doesn't let the odd muse that wanders into the story from happening and they stall.

To come up with a set of rules you can say what can happen and what can't, but its often better to let the story take on its own life before you try to bind it up. But a good start is a rule set like this:

• No world hopping, aka you must stay in the school setting and you can't have the characters teleported to King Arthur's Court or anything, or any other dimension. What ever happens they have to stay in school (no pun intended)
• The school must stay in one piece, both socially and physically, aka: no Armageddons or super mechs stomping it out. It must play a role in the story the whole way through.
• The characters must not be elevated above their classmates in the social or physical order. They can't be the godly untouchable that never has problems and just has adventures in school because they have to be there.
• The events can take place around the grounds/campus or town but the whole story should not be based around events outside the High School. It plays a supplemental role.

This is just an example of possible rules that you could define, be sure to make them a little vague so that there is a little leeway for creativity. Don't keep it centered on one type of architect style or the story will die out because it ends up that only one author can write about the events.

What I meant was school rules lol. But yeah we do need rules for writing xD

So yes, this will be sorta like out guideline i guess, accept we're writing realistic fiction, so i guess world hopping won't be happening. But I go agree especially with the last one though.

Hmm are you sure you want a dreary realistic fiction story? There is a lot to be said for a school that turns out to be an underground satanic demon forces recruiting station or contains disguised alien transfer students. And I'm just getting warmed up

I'm from the US, I'm not sure how everyone's school experience was/is but setting and rules are the one thing that allways change. The problems however often are sometimes the same. Even if the sports or clubs or classes are dramatically different. I'm talking about peer pressure, home issues and family and social problems of the characters.

Racial, and ethical differences will influence the story as well as the writer's own experiences.

I don't know. Schoolyard drama has a lot going on outside the school. A lot. I would know. This one girl in my school one day exploded on me with all the #####'s been going on in her life, and about half the people she mentioned went to our school, the rest were from the volunteer fire department around here that didn't, but they were all involved.

But then again, this could get messy like this if you involve an entire town.

I think just feel free to write the way you want to portray the students.

but please. no Demonic underground stuff xD

I think lets start with just school days =)

If I want a fantasy, I might as well do it in RP lol.

Yes I understand a lot of how a person acts is dependent on stuff that happened outside of school, but think of Central High as the nexus, where it all comes together and changes and morphs the story. The idea as we write is to give not only the characters a life of their own but the environment of the school will have to become familiar as if the reader can visualize it in his or her own mind, the school will also have to take on a life it its own. For that to happen the important events, the ones that cause the earthshakeing changes in the characters lives will have to happen either in the school or on its familiar grounds.

Why not making it a boarding school then?

Hmmm that makes sense. If I were to model it around my old high school, but instead of it being a simple public school I could make it a boarding school, but the problem there is most boarding schools are private for a reason. I mean some boarding schools are Military, some special needs, and some expensive or elite schools. The list is almost endless. But here is my proposed model if it was in fact a real boarding school.

Central Valley High

Situated on the edge of the University Campus of Central Valley University, lies the preparatory boarding school known as Central Valley High, surrounded on one side by untamed wilderness and hiking trails, and on the other the growing University town of Central Valley.

Established by the visionary founder of the Central Valley University in 1984, The aim of this school was to prepare students who needed special academic challenges or a more disciplined environment for collage or advanced technical schools. The hand picked staff and student-elected government board of the school run day to day activities and are in charge of the welfare and academic support every student needs to succeed in today's high paced society.

The school supports a wide range of students, and each student's educational plan is specially tailored the his or her needs depending on each individual's strengths or weaknesses. The school has an aggressive physical education program that is mandatory for every student, and is currently run by a decorated Ex-Marine and is guaranteed to make even the most obese applicants into healthy and productive members of the student body.

Each student is placed in dorms according to his or her Academic choices and can be shifted if the student's career path changes through their time in the school. Each dorm is unique and organized to be comfortable and supportive to the student's needs.

Unlike most educational programs this school shares the resources where needed with the nearby collage campus, including the advanced Laboratory's and extensive Sports complex that the regular collage contains, but the on-site resources are state of the art and contain the most advanced equipment of any 9-12 grade level schools in the entire state.

Central Valley High, has a range of special programs including a Military Prep program, and an one of the best Drug detox, and support systems in the country. It is also rated third nationally as the the most technically advanced private school, with links to many high technology careers and jobs.



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This has sort of drifted to the fourth/fifth page already. >.>. Dookie, were you still up for making this (and was everyone else still up for participating)?