Sisters of DST - Help with a Delta Question

[Sistermadly]

I hope I'm not stepping out of line here, but I could use some help. I'm writing a young adult novel (for the first time in my life) and in the novel, one of the scenes involves a young black girl who has a fight with her father because she wants to go to a social event sponsored by the DelTeens, but her father doesn't want her to go. It's the last fight she and her father have before her father passes away.

I've done some Googling and found some information about DelTeens, but one piece of factual information is kind of holding up my flow - does a young woman have to be sponsored in order to join, or can she simply submit a letter of interest to a chapter?

Again, pardon my ignorance, but I want to make sure I get this factually correct. If the novel ever sees the light of day, I'll change the name of the sorority. Feel free to answer this via PM or via e-mail if desired.

Thanks SO MUCH in advance!

[Boom_Quack13]

I think it would be better if you make up a fictional girl's group that is sponsored by a fictional sorority.

[ladygreek]

It varies from chapter to chapter. But DelTeens may not be a good example to use because many chapter have moved to a different program that is an expansion of DelTeens but a different name (Betty Shabazz Delta Academy.). And you would be hard pressed to make a case for the father not wanting his daughter to participate.

[Boom_Quack13]

Originally posted by ladygreek
And you would be hard pressed to make a case for the father not wanting his daughter to participate.

Unless it's Fred Hatchett's daughter.

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by ladygreek
It varies from chapter to chapter. But DelTeens may not be a good example to use because many chapter have moved to a different program that is an expansion of DelTeens but a different name (Betty Shabazz Delta Academy.). And you would be hard pressed to make a case for the father not wanting his daughter to participate.

Thank you so much, ladygreek! And the father does have good reason for not wanting his daughter to participate. But I don't want to give away the plot just yet.

Boom_Quack: thanks for your input, but as I said, this novel might not even see the light of day, so I'm making it as real as possible just for the sake of continuity. If the book is ever published, I have every intention of changing the name of the group, but I still want there to be a glimmer of truth to it.

[Boom_Quack13]

Originally posted by Sistermadly


Boom_Quack: thanks for your input, but as I said, this novel might not even see the light of day, so I'm making it as real as possible just for the sake of continuity. If the book is ever published, I have every intention of changing the name of the group, but I still want there to be a glimmer of truth to it.

So, if you have intentions of changing it later, why not just change it now? What's the difference? Continuity can be accomplished with a ficticious organization. Are the people that you are writing about actual people? Probably not. But I'm sure you will achieve continuity, using ficticious characters. So why choose a real organization, that you have just admitted to not knowing that much about?

[Sistermadly]

It's a novel - novelists have their own reasons for writing, and I don't *want* it to be a fictional organization. It's my work, and I'm entitled to do that.

Jeez, I don't have an ulterior motive. Relax -- it's only a plot device. It doesn't figure prominently in the novel at all.

[smlwonderdst]

Originally posted by Boom_Quack13
Unless it's Fred Hatchett's daughter.

lol ... this was funny ... lol

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Sistermadly
It's a novel - novelists have their own reasons for writing, and I don't *want* it to be a fictional organization. It's my work, and I'm entitled to do that.

Jeez, I don't have an ulterior motive. Relax -- it's only a plot device. It doesn't figure prominently in the novel at all.

As a novelist, you must also prepare yourself for feedback and criticism.

I am not questioning your motives but it does seem odd.

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by Boom_Quack13
Unless it's Fred Hatchett's daughter.

Okay, you made me spit out my coffee.

[Boom_Quack13]

Originally posted by ladygreek
Okay, you made me spit out my coffee.

Sorry, soror. That was the only exception to the rule that I could think of.

[Boom_Quack13]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
As a novelist, you must also prepare yourself for feedback and criticism.

I am not questioning your motives but it does seem odd.

Exactly. She asked us what we thought, so I gave her my opinion.

But, I'on know about her motives. I see some Big Walt tendancies running amuck up in hurr.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Boom_Quack13
But, I'on know about her motives. I see some Big Walt tendancies running amuck up in hurr.

I respectfully disagree. As she stated, we do not know the plot. From what I have read of Sistermadly's posts in the past, she does not seem to be one who is about exposing NPHC. To paint her with the Big Walt paintbrush is a bit caustic.

Sistermadly, I cannot tell you what to do, but perhaps it really would be best to have a fictional sorority who has a teen auxiliary or mentoring group that does similar projects as DelTeens have done in the past.

[Reds6]

Father: You better not go to that social event with a group of young girls that promotes education, culture and personal growth! What are you thinking!

[Sistermadly]

Originally posted by Reds6
Father: You better not go to that social event with a group of young girls that promotes education, culture and personal growth! What are you thinking!

I know, it sounds odd, but he has his reasons. Without giving away too much of the plot, it's a very, VERY small part of the book that basically sets up the lead character's regret over fighting with her dad over something so trivial on the day he died.

The whole scene is less than two pages long.