Short Story Proposal
Title: Polka Dots
Point of View: First Person
Character Profile: She’s 18, a junior college student living alone in the city.
She’s Miss-All-Positive-Adjectives and loving it. One night, she discovers a weird circular thing on her back but she ignores it. It will go away, she thought. But after three days, it did not go away. Instead, it started growing and crawling around her back. It was a ring-like thing and it was spreading.
This story will be about a teenage girl who turns into Polka Dots. Red, white, and circular.
Research method:
1. Books on Rare Diseases
2. Google.
Reason:
I want to play with the idea: “There’s no such thing as perfection” by using a “perfect” girl and putting her in a spot which would physically, emotionally, and mentally tear her apart. It’s like a search for happiness that’s not just skin-deep.
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hi, mari! the premise sounds great! i can almost read the story already. it would be better if you would make it very subtle. let the silences give the story shape. you know what i mean? yung parang it is the unsaid that is the real story? take care not to stereotype the character too much though. give her a life, a full knowable past. and then make the disease really believable. use the proper medical vocabulary. =)
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