Recent content by jp68112

Officers'Wife: I do outline! Extensively, in fact. However, this project I did the least amount of outlining due to lack of time. This was a Nanowrimo novel and my choice to compete this year was last minute. The introduction of the drug came during an early stage and became a major plot point...

Yes, I really like the hearing thing. The sensitivity to vibrations I like a lot too. I agree. The dodging bullets thing is very "ninja", as you put it. To me, it's felt very "comic book superhero" esq which is definitely not the feel I want for this. Yes, it has to be a drug for the purpose of...

JohnKSa and JeeperCreeper: I like the idea of heightened senses, aka making the characters capable of sensing when someone is nearby. I'm wondering if there's a way for people to be capable of hearing the sound of the gun going off, even though the sound is slower than the bullet's speed...

^ Okay. I was thinking the same thing, fast reflexes and acute senses especially hearing and eyesight, but wanted a gun expert to clarify for me! I read somewhere that the speed of sound is slower than the speed a bullet can travel at, which sort of throws me off. I am willing to take any...

Hey all, Been a while since I've stopped by here. I've done some research, but so far I've been getting by in my draft by just saying things like, "she learned to use the hand gun issued by the organization" and later in action sequences simply just saying she fired the gun. I haven't quite had...

I'm thinking of making my MC part of a system that focuses on dealing with juveniles. Despite the liberties that the young adult genre can take with teenagers and what they're capable of doing, no full grown adult criminal is going to be afraid of a bunch of teenagers. Plus I'm kinda trying to...

If someone called the police for say, a break in or if someone in the house was unstable and acting out violently, how many cops would be sent to the house? Could anyone answer that for me?

Wow, I hide away for a few days and return with even more information. You folks are awesome! To answer an earlier poster, yes, this is for nanowrimo. The idea had been swimming in my head for a few months and I was polishing up a completed manuscript. It just so happened that a few days before...

Yes, research is a necessary evil. I love to learn, you have to love that to be a writer because you're writing about your observations of the world around you. But research always feels like something that is stopping me from doing the fun part, the writing. Because right now all I want to do...

Anyway, thank you all for the information! This is more than I was even expecting to get in less than a day. Obviously, there is no one answer to either of my questions...did I mention I hate novel research? Yeah, this is why. So I'm just going to have to take your advice and see where it goes...

Someone else mentioned that a teenage girl would only be recruited if they are "that bad off". I also think that it's not implausible to recruit young people. Besides that, young adult novels have to be about, well, young adults, aka teenagers. I agree with you. Books are pretty much the only...

Interesting point. Like I said, the world building isn't really established very much at all yet, so I'm glad that someone pointed this out. I'm not sure how scarce supplies are. Since this organization has been around for a while by the time the book starts, overpopulation is now manageable...

Yes, I thought about that too, the fact that I could really just make up my own guns if I could. I'm in verrryyy early stages of drafting, about 5 chapters in and they'll probably all be different by the time I finish revisions. So I don't have much world building worked out. Short answer, not...

Hello, I hope it's okay to post this thread in this section. The title of this says it all. I'm a writer and I would like to do some research about guns for my young adult novel. Trouble is, there's just so much information out there that I'm having trouble deciding where to even begin. I...