Joural 3

In this journal I want to talk about my idea for my own young adult story. The story will be inspired by my own life and the way I think now, but for a teenage audience. It will be about a teenage boy searching for something outside the societal norm as a way to live. He has grown up thinking that the only path he has to choose is college, then career, then marriage, then children, all the way to retirement. He has always known that he wanted something different from this norm but never knew what other options he had to choose from. He will be exposed to a vagabonding sort of lifestyle, either by a friend, someone older, or perhaps literature. (How I will expose this to the character I am not sure yet, perhaps it will take a number of these things to really open up the character to these things.) The novel will begin with exploring the characters mundane life and how he yearns for something more, something new. He will have his ow traveling experience that will ensure him that this vagabonding lifestyle is what he wants his life to be. My idea is that a young adult audience will connect with the idea of wanting more out of life then the lifestyle that is laid out for so many of us. Hopefully a reader will realize from this book that there are options and that there are others who have gone off the beaten path and mad their own futures.