A Peter Pan World?

[Tensleep]

Wow, you put a lot of thought into that...

I think Mars has a point. Parents and other adults are hard to work in when you start writing. Most of my stories don't involve parents for that reason. And even now I look at how I have been trying to change that and I've got divorcees and step parents....

I think this also makes it easier to write in the bad guy/potential good guy in that role. You can play with it and it's not so hard to get in their heads that way.

And hey; we're all busy arguing with our folks anyway. This saves the realism factor and time into that relationship.

Yet another random thought...

See ya in the funny papers!!!

Tens

[Nittanylizard]

I missed this thread when it came up (haha, my parents were visiting, how funny is that?).

That's a really good summary of the adult characters. There was a discussion recently on the writing board I peruse regarding parents and adults in young adult novels:

www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57634

I liked the premise that one writer offered, that whether or not adults are present, the MC must solve the problem or face the conflict without adult intervention.

[Laughing]

I did a research paper on Susie once, and I learned that her own parents weren't all that great. If I remember right, her dad and her got along okay, but he died, and her and her mother did not get along. Her mom threw her manuscript of The Outsiders in the trash burner! Luckily, Susie was able to retrieve it. So maybe she just wrote parents similar to her own.

[BlindedxxFalcon]

Very interesting...I'll have to do some more research...I never knew that. Very interesting topic.