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Okay, I had an idea for a story.

Plot: A shy girl (smart, bookish) has only one friend and confided, a 'thatauthordude' she met over the internet. When a new boy comes to her school, she reminds her alot of her internet buddy, even though this guy likes sports and not writing. She developes a crush on this new kid and asks 'thatauthordude' for relationship advise. What she doesn't know is that 'thatauthordude' and the new kid are one and the same.

Does anyone want to help me write this? Or just an opinion: would you read it?

The idea is sort of overused, but I would still read it. What do you mean by heling you write it?

Fantasy's my thing, too, but not the hard-core type. It's not that specific idea. It's like the movie You're Got Mail, if you've ever seen that. Their businesses are competing, but they're talking to each other through E-mail and don't know it, and they end up falling in love, and all that good stuff.

I have a similar idea, but they don't know each other beforehand.

I would be interested in helping you, if you wanted. But only when you need help, because it's your story. 3nodding

Eh. The single quotes aren't something I like reading. But other than that, it looks fine so far.

Do you have a plot? Like, written down?

Oh, and "mwa" should be moi. French for "me." xd

You mean you can't write down what you want to happen? It's easier that way sometimes, and if you're looking for a co-author, you're going to need a plot outline to give to them.

Don't worry, I'm in French. I spell Spanish things wrong all the time. About the only Spanish word I can spell correctly is "taco." sweatdrop

I guess you're right about the typing thing. Maybe use double quotes, and make the tags "typed" and "responded" and things like that. If it were a real book, those parts would probably be in a different font.

Hmm...

All you have to do is write down a general idea of what's going to happen. I mean, I have most of my story planned out already, but I still have an outline to tell me what goes where.

Here's a bit of a plotline for a story I'm working on:

1. Kyoonyt reveals itself
   
2. Meeting: Aleena decides to come out
   
3. Aleena's exploration of Boise
   
4. Small Idaho bar performance
   
5. Jeremy breaks up with Kada
   
6. Poker
   
7. Meeting: Reunion, coming out (Boise)
   
8. Boise news performance

Only I know exactly what it means, but it's supposed to be like that. Just a basic jotting of notes. I know in my head what Poker Night is going to be like. I know what they're going to do in Boise. I know exactly how Jeremy and Kada will break up, and Jeremy's reaction to it.

What you have is the whole plot, which you should have. All you need are a few words to keep the plot straight.

On the note of distinguishing between IMs and verbal dialogue, I wrote a story once for a contest where the main character has to get a text message on their cell phone.

I used capitol letters, because that's what most people use in text messages. I still used double quotes, but the tags and capitol letters set it apart from verbal dialogue.

I'm reading a book now where the characters IM each other. It's got the normal book part, with the first-person narration and description and such, but when they get to IMs, the font changes and there's breaks before and after the conversation. Maybe if you could do that? Put the description in normal format, and the IMs with breaks before and after them.

That probably sounds really confusing. sweatdrop But I don't have any other way of explaining it....

Hm. Interesting, I love good modern stories and even though (as said before) overused, it's still great. If it may need my help my IMs and advice is always open for council.