Help With Possible Novel?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by TheNxtNancyDrew

Hi, I guess what I was trying to say is that I know how MY system worked, but we didn't have, for instance, serenades, candle passes, Greek Week, Derby Days, lavaliering, etc., and I know that some or all of these things are very big deals at other campuses, and if I were going to put them in my book (and I might, since I don't want the book's campus to be my campus), I'd want to make sure I got the details right. That's all I meant.

And I kind of figured about the Recruitment Story thing, but since I am trying to make this school and recruitment different from my own, I was hoping to get some feedback on whether it sounded credible. Wouldn't be trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, pretending to write a "real" recruitment and then SURPRISE it's a fake.

Because I'm a member of a single sorority on a single campus I'm a little worried about making the setting too much like my campus and all the sororities sound like my sorority (terminology, etc.). I know how WE did things, but not anyone else (in more than a general sense).

I am planning to be involved in various writing groups once the novel gets a little farther along, but I'm not in a terribly heavily Greek area at the moment, and am not sure how much useful critique I will get about the nuts and bolts versus the actual writing, if that makes sense.

Hope this clears some stuff up for you.

Why CAN'T it be based on your campus? Writers write better when they're really familiar with the subject matter.

Also, there is a mystery series called The Scumble River Mysteries by Denise Swanson. She's an ASA and her detective character is an ASA. It's several years after college, but it might still be worth a read. It's a good series. The idioms & sayings in it always crack me up.