Thursday, October 4, 2007

Toooooooday:

Finish up the essay, and send it off.
Lay more down on the master plan.
Establish NaNo account.

What I accomplished:

Something's still off with NaNo
Ready to send esay, but didn't do it b/c Kim ahdn't gotten back to me yet.
reworked the master plan a bit.

East of Everywhere

The plot, un-chopped up:

It is Friday. Girl runs away from home. Walking down a 23-type road, she is offered a ride by a man who looks like her dad. She takes his offer. They spend the weekend driving around, and she returns home on Sunday night.

Setting: I don’t know. Woodbury, maybe.

Charcterization:
The last thing will be the letter that girl left for her parents, stating her intention to be back before school starts the next week.

Problem: girl has determined that she does not belong in her home. So she packs a backpack and leaves. The first car to pass her on the road is her uncle’s, and he agrees to give her a ride to somewhere. Eventually, girl wants to go east of everywhere. A conversation between the girl and her uncle, about pioneers heading west, spurs her to want to go east all the way east. Then the only way she’ll have to go is west.

The beginning
I) Phone call between uncle and parents says that he is coming for a visit over the weekend
II) Straight girl walking along the road. She gets in car with uncle.
III) We do not meet any of her other family members
IV) (see problem)

The middle
I) Sense of time is lost.
II) Majority of telling is poetry/dream sequences
III) Meet the family- older brother, much-older sister, parents.
IV) Fleshing out of the problem


The end
I) Girl and her uncle get to the nearest point that is very east.
II) Girl decides to go home
III) I don’t know what will happen with the uncle.


Poems that girl will write:
First, they are all about water, sometimes in a scientific way.
Algal blooms
Winding river
Love is the strongest force

Dreams:
I want to have a recurring dream, but I don’t know what about. Rather than the dream ending at the end, I’d have it go the same as before, but then the girl understands anyway/doesn’t care.

This sparks a new list: things I need to research

• where is the farthest-east point in the US? Connecticut?