<p>I've decided to write a book about a girl who goes to boarding school. Only mine will set everyone straight. I mean, she'll have to have some major issue, but it will show that not everyone at boarding school is a stuck up snob. I like books like Prep, Private, and The It Girl, but I have a feeling they are incredibly untrue. </p>
<p>I'm starting it now, but I refuse to do more than a draft until after I've spent a semester there. Not that I probably would be able to anyways. Still.</p>
<p>The seriess [don't know how to make that word plural =p] you listed are all about girls that have elite social status and are immensely rich. It's going to be difficult writing a book like that, removing the 'bi<em>chy tone' of the characters and still be able to keep the story interesting. It's the {issues, gossipy interaction, and bi</em>chiness} stuck-up-snobbiness among the characters that make the story interesting.
If the goal of your book is to tell everyone the real truth about boarding school and not the stuck up side, that's a pretty hard goal to achieve, especially through a fictional book. I think it actually takes the person to go to boarding school to get a feel of what it's actually like; not filled with all super elite people who have sx every other day.</p>
<p>Have you read When the Moon Turns Away by Tracy Ma? She wrote it after attending Deerfield. It's fictional, and she kept the 'stuck-up-snobbiness' in her characters..though it may be a bit exaggerating on the sx/drugs/alcohol perspective on boarding school, I thought it wasn't that bad.
Another book is Been There, Done That by a girl writing about herself at Susan Jones Prep School. She lost the tone and wrote, I thought, rather candidly about her thoughts and life at boarding school. I think this is more what you're looking at?</p>
<p>anyway, good luck =) what school are you going to?</p>
<p>..also, these are just my reactions to your post..i don't mean to give any negative feeling to your idea =S</p>
<p>I read a book awhile ago, called "All Loves Excelling". It's by a former headmaster of Lawrenceville and basically focused on the pressure you find in boarding schools, probably not what you're planning to write about as it was rather...pessimistic, I suppose. But you might want to check it out ;D</p>
<p>Well I was thinking of doing the opposite of those other books. A girl, an outsider, comes as a new student and THINKS everyone is rich and snobby, so she acts like that too. Then no one likes her and she realizes that while most of them may be richer than her family, that doesn't make them stuck up snobs.</p>
<p>It always warms my heart to hear those magical words "I'm going to write a book." You go and create something great, risingjunior. </p>
<p>But take the word of someone who's done this for many years...don't talk about the book before you write the book. A breath of cold air makes little green words curl up and die. So keep your ideas under wraps until they have a chance to grow strong. </p>
<p>Writing is kind of like Fight Club. 1st rule: Don't talk about Fight Club.</p>
<p>haha thanks Novelisto :)</p>
<p>I will take your advice. From this point forward....my lips are sealed :)</p>
<p>The other two yes, but I get the feeling that Prep is uncannily realistic. It isn't necessarily saying that everyone is stuck up at all.</p>
<p>True, just that Lee is highly uncomfortable with the world. Although Dede and Aspeth strike me as a little stuck up, and Cross is way too cocky for my liking.</p>
<p>yeah, but it isn't saying that all the kids at boarding school are like that, it is just a commentary on certain types of people who seem to attend these schools.</p>