that romeo and juliet thing

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Thanks guys! :D I am working on it now, and you can follow updates on the tag “that romeo and juliet thing”.

As for Violet and Gideon- our Juliet and Romeo- I actually have a very clear picture of Violet in my head. She’s very clever, but she’s also idealistic and optimistic and adorable. She’s a big walking ball of sunshine.

She looks a bit like Lupita Nyong’o, except obviously a lot younger (being only sixteen.) She wears her hair in bunches quite a lot. Her father is a cop. (So was her grandfather). I don’t know about her mother…

Gideon comes from a rich family, which is why he has a fancypants name. Lives in a big house surrounded by a wall which I used to go past every day walking to school. His parents do something with computers, which is how they got their money. He’s probably got dark hair. Probably smokes…

Hmmm, I had more character notes than I thought.

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Summary, take one, for that Romeo and Juliet thing:

A high school Shakespeare club angrily splits into two groups when they can’t agree on the correct interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. Is it a sincere story about love conquering hate, or a cautionary tale about the folly of youth? Violet (the believer) and Gideon (the cynic) are both positive they’re the one in the right. With the end-of-year play hanging in the balance, someone had better be.

Then again, maybe they all have better things to do. The feud’s brought out the worst in everybody, it’s almost exams time, and life after high school is looking scarier and scarier. Especially for Violet and Gideon, who realise they have more in common than they first thought. A lot more. But they’ll have to contend with parents, Facebook, an angry Rosalind, an overenthusiastic Mercutio, tragedy, fighting, failure, and all the other sorts of problems that have plagued teenagers for hundreds of years if these not-exactly-star-crossed lovers are going to have a remotely happy ending.

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The other day I had a really good idea for a story:

A high school Shakespeare club angrily splits into two groups when they can’t agree on the correct interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. One group thinks it’s a cautionary tale about the stupidity of youth and shallow lust; the other group think it’s a beautiful tragedy about poisonous hatred conquered by love. Reconciliation seems impossible-

–then a person from one group falls in love with a person from the other

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