Writing Passionates discussion

I've got a good story idea, but I'm not sure where to send the plot after what I've got so far. Heres it now:

This young woman wants to be a writer, but she thinks she's a failure. Everything she's tried to write, it hasn't worked out. Then she gets this idea to write a story about a tea parlor, and she starts to write it. But then, after a few chapters, she is stuck- she doesn't know what to write next. It's another failure. She decides to go out and get some coffee to "calm her nerves." When she is driving, she gets carried away, and ends up farther away from starbucks then she can tell. When she turns a corner, she stops the car abruptly. Because sitting in front of her is the tea parlor that she had just made up. The exact same name, and it looks just like she had described it.
She goes inside, and everything is how she wrote it. She is shocked and disbelieving.

I don't know what should happen. I had the idea of her going to the back and finds theres fairies there, but I don't think I want to head it in that direction. Any ideas?

Hmmm. That's a really intriguing beginning. I wouldn't make it a fairy story if I were you--it sounds more like it should be a ghost story or a mystery. Maybe the woman saw the tea parlor in a past life. Are there people in the tea parlor? Because if there are, maybe one of them could also be an author who is writing about the main character's life. So the protagonist and one of the people that she writes about are actually writing about each other. Does that make sense? It sounds more complicated when I try to put it into words...

Thanks! That's actually a really good idea. Yes, there are people in the tea parlor..so basically, she is part of a story and they're writing about her? I like it. It really gives it a twist..It kind of reminds me of the movie Stranger than Fiction, if anyone saw that.

Yeah, I saw that movie. I liked it.

Same here

Maybe she has the power to write about things and they will come to life? That's a little too much like Inkheart and Inkspell, though.

Ugh. I hated Inkheart. I would stick more to the Stranger-Than-Fiction kind of plot. It could be really interesting.

Yeah, I think so too. So, the people inside the tea parlor are writing about her? And then what should happen? Maybe she wants them to stop or to get out of the story because she doesn't like it when they're in control?

yeah! maybe she wants to stop writing the story, but the people in the tea parlor find out about it. so she's afraid that if she threatens to end the story, the people in the tea parlor will get angry and end HER story.

thats a good idea! though, this is starting to sound like a horror story. not exactly what I had in mind...

well, it does not have to be a horror story really--it could just be a suspenseful kind of story. you know?

yeah...

Brigid, what if she wrote about the parlor and because she made it up it came to life, and in her story, there are people who are writing about her? Does that make sense? Or does what you said sound better, where people are writing about her writing the parlor?

Okay, that makes sense. So the tea parlor only came into existence because she wrote about it. Then, do you mean that she wrote about the people writing about her? So then she sort of got herself into the whole conflict by accident?

I was kind of thinking that she wrote the story, but she didn't write about people writing about her. The story kind of continued by itself. So yeah, she got herself there by accident. Does that make sense?

oh okay. yeah. I get it now. sounds good. :)

yay I'm glad I figured that out :)

hey sella, i read the beginning of your story and it's awesome. :)

thanks! :) and thanks for commenting on my writing...I will write some more soon!

yay! and btw, thanks for commenting on my writing too. :)

your welcome! i hope you write some more too, it's really good!

Maybe it could be more than just a tea shop, like a whole village that is kind of living outside of time or something. And what if she gets trapped and can't get out?

ooh, that's a good idea!

sounds kind of like brigadoon...you know, the musical? where the town disappears and reappears every one hundred years? anyway, that's a cool idea, with the town stuck in a certain time period or something.

never seen that

Still have writer's block on Tulips's Cozy Tea then?

whoa this topic is so old ... XD

I think she's trying to bring back old topics.

I've never read this one, sheesh, I didn't even look at the date.

XD

it was started in *scrolls up* march.

oh my this is sooo old!! i remember writing this...but now i've sorta given up on that story, just cause it wasn't very good and i have writer's block for it. XD