This week, I was able to complete working on the scene that I had been previously planning. But I have to say that it was not an easy task to do, since this was probably my busiest week since the semester started. I had a lot going on in my plate, with my personal life. But that’s another story to share another time. As I worked on my new scene, I found myself working with the ideas I had brainstormed and planned. I was happy in the end with the final product, as I wrote it nearly exactly as I had visualized it in my mind. I started with having the main character (Kyle) coming back home and learning that his family was no longer there. To add some layers of interest to the scene, I built up the suspense. He walked in into a house that was not only empty without people, but it was also disorganized and ravaged by animals and scavengers. This was intentionally done by other living beings not related to Kyle or his family, so I worked on providing hints that would show this. I used clues such as footprints (of both animals and humans), opened windows and doors on this abandoned house, animals roaming around the place (rotten and cockroaches).
For the next part of my scene, I worked on giving Kyle as sense of familiarity with the situation, and so I put more focus on his thinking and way of feeling. At this moment, he’s going through some reflections and mental stimulation that leaves him a new state of mind. This new state of mind is one that not only changes his new goals and motives, but also his behavior and part of his personality. As it is, he must find himself now trying to survive for the time being, and he sets on another journey to find his family. Adding new adopted layers of behavior to his personality, I focused on giving him a new basic need for survival. And so, he finds himself worrying more about how he keeps himself fed, alive, and protected, all in the space of this house. The purpose of this was for him to go through a new turning point in his life (both emotionally and physically). The build-up of his new emotional growth is something that I intentionally worked on in this scene because this one is the beginning of a new chapter (two), and so there is some sort of turning point to the story’s progression and narration.
With new chapter in my story having been started and new starting scene completed, I now feel my progression slowly building up as I continue on working on the “rising action” part of my work. And so, with this in mind, I’m starting to not only think of my next scenes, but also in other parts of my project. One of these parts is not necessarily related to my manuscript, but rather with a creation of a website that will support information about the crafting of my story and work itself as a whole project. So, this week, I plan to work around the idea of creating a site that will go hand in hand and provide additional support for my project.
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