Recap:
For the past few weeks, I had been working on some story ideas for my project. Finally, I am excited to have chosen one of the stories ideas I developed and to start working on it. For this week, I spent some time planning on how I would like to story to be. In such case, I find myself approaching this new stage of the process with a familiar practice that has always worked for me in the past: first, developing a story map and character profiles, then working around this to complete the work, or rather the story. Working in this organized manner allows me to no lose track of my main points, ideas, theme, and much more on a project, as I continue adding the various pieces missing to the puzzle.
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Patient Zero
A story about an older man who wakes up at a hospital, after having been in a comma for 3 months. He doesn’t remember what happened to him, or why he had been hospitalized. But after the doctors informs him about it all, then he gains a little more understanding of his situation. Soon, he starts to remember about his family, and after leaving the hospital, he goes to his house to find his family. But upon arrival, he discovers that his family is nowhere to be found, and the house is completely a mess inside. The world around him is also a mess, as there is now a deadly virus that has killed thousands of people since its discovery. Now, the protagonist must try to search for his family in a dangerous world. Meanwhile, scientists are in search for a cure, while resources are becoming scarcer each day.
UPDATED TO (as of August, 2020):
Patient Zero is a fiction story about a man, who wakes up at a hospital after a 1-month coma. During this time, much happened and the entire country of the U.S is now faced with an epidemic, due to a deadly airborne virus that kills its victims either the first round or the second of infection (as it never really goes away). Because of difficult circumstances, he loses touch with his family and embarks on a journey to find them, in order to get his life back to normal for whatever time he has left to live.
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Chapter 1: EXPOSITION
–Kyle wakes up at the hospital after a long comma.
–Back and forward communication between him and the doctors.
-He is told that he can go home in 3 days.
-But after one day before Kyle is released from the hospital, he grows more fearful and aware (by watching TV, looking at the other patients who are sick with the virus) of the situation that it’s happening, and escapes with without discharge.
Chapter 2: RISING ACTION
–Kyle arrives home
-His family (wife, son, and daughter)is no longer there. The house is empty as if no one had lived there.
-Now he questions whether his mind is playing trick on him or something else.
-His memory starts to come back with flashbacks.
Chapter 3: RISING ACTION PART II
–Kyle goes on a search for his family, to some of the places that he remembers.
-Each place serves as a clue to where they might be next, as they keep moving.
-Kyle is now confused to why his family is moving around.
-Meanwhile, scientists are looking for “patient-zero ” or a cure for the virus.
Chapter 4: CLIMAX
– Kyle gets sick, and ends up at the hospital again.
– Doctors find out it’s the same virus. They tell him that this could be his last chance for survival because the virus had previously damaged most of his organs to such a degree that he was barely able to survive.
-His wife appears all of a sudden….
TO BE CONTINUED…
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KYLE (Protagonist):
-Age: 65
– Retired English teacher.
– Personality: calm and collected.
KATE (Kyle’s wife):
-Age: 46
– A housewife once who gets tough when the tough gets going.
– The protector of Karel and Krystal.
– Personality: decisive, strong willed, short tempered.
KAREL (Kyle’s son):
-Age: 16
-A child who was victim of medical experimentation.
-Immune to the virus.
-Personality: Quiet and shy. Doesn’t talk much..
KRYSTAL (Kyles’ daughter):
-Age: 15
-The person leaving small notes to Kyle.
-Personality: Thoughtful and caring.
DR. RICHARD WARD (Antagonist. Kyle’s first main doctor. Person chasing Kyle’s son):
-Age: 57
-Someone who is caught up in his own medical world. Will do anything for his experiements, at the cost of human lives.
-Personality: A snake which hides it’s true intentions behind it’s fake smile.
DR. ABARY PATEL (Kyle’s second main doctor):
-Age: 40
-A kind and honest doctor.
-Personality: A real nerd on medicine.
JAMES (Kate’s uncle and close family member):
TINA (Kate’s aunt and family member):
———————–SECRETS BEHIND THE STORY————————–
-Dr. Richard Ward is responsible for Karel’s first infection to the virus.
-The virus was invented by Dr. Richard Ward as part of an experiment on his own lab.
-Kyle’s son is “Patient Zero”
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