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Story Ideas

Attention Teens: We want your stories for our new book, Soul Shaking Grief for Teens, an impaired- and dangerous-driving public awareness guide. To help you come up with topics appropriate for this important publication, we’ve put together a list of ideas in the form of questions to get you started.

You can certainly come up with your own ideas for a story, too! Remember–we want to read about your experiences, and we can keep your identity private.

Good topics for this book

• Would you use a fake ID to try and buy alcohol?
• Have you ever used a fake ID to buy alcohol?
• Do you know someone that was killed or injured while driving drunk or under the influence of drugs? Or do you know someone who killed or injured someone else while driving drunk or under the influence of drugs?
• Did you watch the videos on our homepage? How did they affect you? Would seeing these videos stop you from driving impaired in the future? From texting while driving?
• Do you talk on your cell phone while you are driving?
• Do you text while you are driving?
• Are you allowed to drink at home?
• Do you think you should be allowed to drink at home?
• Do you drink alcohol?
• How often do you have a drink/beer?
• Do you go to parties where alcohol is served?
• Have you ever had a ‘close call’ while driving impaired?
• Have you ever had a ‘close call’ because you were texting while driving?
• Do you feel that you have a drinking problem?
• Do you think alcohol is a good way to relax?
• When, if ever, you do drink is it your purpose to get drunk, buzzed, to relax or to be social?
• What do you consider to be social drinking?
• How do you handle it when your friends drink too much?
• How much is too much?
• Do your parents drink to excess?

What would you do if….

• What would you do if you went to a party thinking the parents were going to be home, but they were not in fact home, and teens started drinking?
• What would you do if you were in a vehicle and knew the driver was drunk? Would you ask to be let out? Would you be embarrassed to say anything in front of your friends?
• What would you do if you were with your friends, who had been drinking, and they decided to break in to a residence or business or school and vandalize it?
• What would you do if you were at a party and you knew you had too much to drink and shouldn’t drive home?

Click here for instructions on how to submit your story for this book.