A now high school graduate wants to make something of himself in the world and it's going to take more than his small group of friends to get the support he needs.
Mason Washington has his small group of friends (Larry, Johnny, Tommy, and hope-to-be-girlfriend Mandy) supporting him and his dreams, but he feels like he needs more. He tries to spend his summer making a name for himself but with the constant trouble from his father, jocks, and hope-to-be-girlfriend psycho father - it will be harder than he thinks.
Basically, I feel this is a very good first draft. There’s some strong ideas here, but they get undermined by clunky dialogue, and some typos. I try to be specific to the text, and quote it as much as possible to let you see your own errors.
Mason’s parents’ scene, when Katherine confronts her husband, sounds like a computer wrote it. His mom is defending her son, but she just says in rote what happened. What she is accusing him of is child a...
In the 1960's, when the baby of an unwed teen is sold at birth to the highest bidding infertile couple, the humiliated mom relentlessly searches for her son despite few clues and forged birth records.
A sheriff dealing with a horrible tragedy has to find a strength she never knew she had when a man in black comes to town and hunts the true heir of the Excalibur.
A young man who lives and works in the beautiful but rigid city of Gobbelmore discovers a shocking truth – that the city’s utopian society is a lie and the mirage is sustained with smoke and mirrors.
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