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07-26-2007, 12:10 AM
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So maybe a founder's great-granddaughter has the same name as your main character but doesn't want to rush because she's too emo for Greek Life, but encourages your main character to rush knowing the misrepresentation will help her? It practically writes itself.
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I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!
I was going to respond to this comment in general, but since it deals with my GLO....
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My maiden name is Locke....I always wondered if I am related to Theta founder Betty Locke Hamilton, making me a Theta legacy. (I am pretty sure I am not!) But would anyone question?? (I hope so!)
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I think it would be cool if a girl would be related to a founder of a GLO in real life, but again, I would think and hope that this would be checked out. I don't think anybody with the last name of a founder of any of the NPC sororities could just walk in to recruitment and say, "Hey I am related to so and so, the founder of ABC". At least I hope not!
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07-26-2007, 01:46 AM
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I think that is a good story line idea, but just like the rest of the posts in this thread, in real life this girl would eventually get caught!
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And I'm sure in the book she would/will eventually get caught, thus creating a plot.
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07-26-2007, 10:20 AM
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And I'm sure in the book she would/will eventually get caught, thus creating a plot.
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OMG, do you mean rising action, a climax, everything? 
OP: Why do you want to write a book about something you don't know about? Surely there are things you have more experience with that would make compelling literature.
All others: The Hazing Meri Sugarman series is a great example of an author writing about something she does not know. The main character gets into the most popular house on campus because she is a legacy and is brutally hazed. You can't know how many high schoolers have asked me about whether particular scenes from these novels really happened to me or other Greeks. At least with Epsilon Zeta, Jock Young really is Greek and knows what he's writing about... even if some of it seems crazy, you know there has to be some truth in it.
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07-26-2007, 10:30 AM
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You girls crack me up. I love when you go off on your tangents and just run with it.
You practically wrote the book for her in 2 pages of posts 
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07-26-2007, 10:40 AM
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How is a "geeky" girl (I'm taking that to mean "socially awkward") going to receive an invitation to sorority membership? The sororities interview prospective members to see if they will fit in with the general culture of that group.
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07-26-2007, 10:44 AM
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How is a "geeky" girl (I'm taking that to mean "socially awkward") going to receive an invitation to sorority membership? The sororities interview prospective members to see if they will fit in.
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Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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07-26-2007, 10:45 AM
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Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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Fab!
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07-26-2007, 10:52 AM
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Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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Ohhh, I see what you did there....
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07-26-2007, 01:58 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Her name is Jenny Smith, and there are 5 other Jenny Smiths rushing. One is the state homecoming queen, a varsity cheerleader, blonde, petite, and has a twin that just joined at a private school not far away. They really want that Jenny Smith but they bid the Geek instead.
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That really happened with one of the sororities on my campus! There were two girls with the same name and they reallyreallyreally wanted one of them but bid the other instead. We got the one they wanted and, looking back, I wish they had gotten her!
This way back before myspace and facebook, though (hell, it was before the Internet, ok?!?!  ), so I'm not sure if that could happen today.
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