Alm Hlgh's Blog - Posts Tagged "teens"

I write this half jokingly, but very much seriously about bullying and negotiating those adolescent wonder years.

I wrote the novel while entertaining the thought of making high school life entertaining, fun and full of the wonder of discovering self as one is coming of age. The story was meant to show that though you may feel weak and think of your bully as someone being powerful, having it all together and confident; often times bullies are just as insecure and lost as their victims are. In addition to that, they are often victims and prey to a much greater force be it internal or external; be it peer pressure or familial expectations.

The power I feel that victims of bullying have, is the power to recognize that the bully's are often time caught up in a vicious cycle of of expectancy either from their own peers and/ or family; which is why in Taming of The Golden Boys the reader is able to go inside the minds of some of the bullies and hear what they are thinking and feeling.

So I'm asking the reading audience, is it possible for the bully and his prey to become friends and or fall in love with each other? What do you think?

Hello all:


I don't know how many of you have been following along with the series Taming The Golden Boys of Central High but as you may know I've been slowly trying to push out the 3rd volume in the series.
I thought I was suffering from a case of the lazies or even writer's block; but... but... but... the truth of the matter is I've been trying to resolve within myself the possibility of having to kill off one of the central characters.

Yup it sucks cuz it's one of my favorite characters and one of my favorite couples no less. I won't say if it's a she or a he but someone in the next series will possible die; but will definitely end up in a long, long, long coma. I think it's the only way I can reconcile with myself to finish the story.

Yea I got a lot of flack from my readers of about the unhappy ending of The Princess & The Thug. There was so much hate mail generated that I had to write an alternate ending which has been well received. And I've said it before I am always amazed at the mail I received about that ending, considering the way their story starts. But it makes me feel good as a writer to know that my writing overcomes the beginning and the readers get lost inside of the story and beginning living and breathing with the characters' journey.

Yes, I've started Taming The Golden Boys of Central High: The College Years. I haven't been posting it to my Booksie account, because I live in fear of writer's block. For me as a reader I hate to get engrossed in a story only to have it stuck in hiatus or worse never finished (the very thing is happening to me with another writer's story. I've been waiting since last December for her to put up another part to a very good story I had been following along).

So the question is to kill or not to kill? Hmm that is the question and I guess you will just have to wait and see if she/ or he dies or just lay in a temporary coma for a few months or years.

Thanks for following the series and I hope to have the story up and posted before summer.

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Can you name a fav book or a really good book with a secret crush?


OR:

Are you currently Crushing on someone secretly? Here's your chance to tell the world. Who's your crush??

Me? I'm crushing on my co-worker Todd... shush, it's a secret...

ahaha... this whole secret crush thing has inspired me to write a new novel. It's still brand new and I'm only on chapter 4... It's called "My Mom Your Dad: Happily Ever After". It's about a girl and guy who have crushes on each other and are fated to become siblings when there parents marry each other. If you would like you can check it out. I hope you do and comment liberally on it... ^__^

Alm...

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