Title: Unsure
Characters:
Diego: A 20 year old saxophone player. The dark and mysterious gentleman with the unsure yet inexhaustible sex appeal. His eyes will suck you in, but the wall that erects around himself is like his own personal fortress.
Lucy: The 19 year old butterfly. Lucy believes that she is still invincible; at that age when everything seems infinite, she often goes to great lengths in order to experience everything that life has to offer. Her haphazard decisions allow her to get what she wants, at the demise of something else. She believes that she is running out of time.
Plot:
The entire story is seen from Diego's point of view, where Lucy barters her virginity in order for him to take her home from a party before her curfew. With heavy dialogue, the entire scene finds our two main characters inside Diego's car, where the arguments and the climax of the story ensue. I would actually like most of the story to be based on the conversation that happens between Diego and Lucy, and most importantly, the intensity of the interaction between the two characters. I'd like to focus on the extreme tension of the situation, and the pressure it has put on Diego to resolve the matter. The entire story is very descriptive, coming from a first person point of view.
Reason for writing the story:
Losing one's virginity has grown to become a rite of passage, and i would like to explore how this could happen in a typical and contemporary setting between two unmarried people. How adolescents handle their sexuality has always been of extreme interest to me, and i have always found this to be a very fulfilling source of inspiration.
Research:
Interviews with people on their first sexual experience with another person, most importantly how it felt for them, and what particular details (a crack in the wall, the print of the bedsheets, etc) they remember of it.
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hi, kristine. email you my comments.
everyone else: please feel free to add your own comments to the proposals.
hi. decided to post the message here for all to see.
kristine: i like the idea a lot. it seems to me like one of those deceptively simple, deceptively static stories. the challenge is to make the characters compelling in themselves. i also think that you'll have to explore various ways of character development. dialogues would dominate, of course. jut remember the considerations we discussed for constructing dialogues: they have to be realistic, appropriate, and must push the narrative forward by way of producing subtext. =)
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