Story Structure – Class Blog

I’ve decided to head out the door before dusk, the sun is fading fast. I have this irresistible urge to find a person wondering the walking path I have chosen to take on this particular evening. Maybe there will be an invisible connection between us, something we feel but can’t explain. As I follow the path ahead of me I see a tall woman walking her dog. She seems to be heading somewhere, on a mission, not wandering the paths aimlessly. I feel no connection as she fades down into the distance  never acknowledging my presence. I keep walking, searching. This strange feeling creeps inside me, something or someone is coming in view up ahead. My pace slows, I can feel the person ahead sense my presence. I can feel them pulling away from me but I use my mind and body to pull them closer. I don’t feel any resistance. The shadow slows as I slow, suddenly they turn and run I’m not sure what’s happening they seem to be running in circles, I come to a stop but I’m being pulled towards the circle I can’t stop my legs from pulling me tugging me closer to the circle. What’s happening this is not what I anticipated as I walked outside tonight. The sun has set, the darkness has cast shadows everywhere. I’m feeling dizzy being pulled closer closer to what? 

 I hear The ocean waves crashing along with the screams from the seagulls as they pass over me. The sky is becoming dark as the fiery sun sets behind the snow capped mountain scape. Today was a tough day for me. The past few months I’ve made some choices for myself that are having me second guess my motives. 

My name is Catrina Diamanté just one year ago I had been living with my parents in a small village outside charlotte NC all of my 35 years of life. As always I had been an accomodating daughter constantly taking care of the needs of others. My controlling parents needed me as I was the youngest daughter of our family of 4. 

My older brother, Max left home at a young age and has made a life for himself far away from the drama my parents tend to thrive on. He lives with his girlfriend who stirs up enough drama for Jeff. My younger sister Josephine, most call her Joe, lives a quiet life near me. We are as close as two sisters get. 

But this morning during our usual coffee talk, we had a disagreement. 

Two months ago I made the choice to move out of my small village and take on a new venture with the small company I have been working with for 10 years, based in California. I’ve been working as a technical advisor for this small start up company specialising in the development of Artificial Intelligence being used as dogs walkers. We are in the tidme sensitive developmental stages of telepathic programming using chips we plant on the dogs body. Telepathically the AI communicates with the part of the dogs brain that controls the nerves that make the dogs legs move. 

It’s been five years in the making and we are just beginning our actual trial faze. The company asked me to move closer to them to do some hands on work rather than working from home. Much to my parent’s disappointment I made the move. 

Today, my supervisor, Sharon, and head of technology decided to let me in on a clandestine project put in motion one year ago, right before I moved to Cali. I was surprised when she mentioned the project and wondered why I was kept in the dark. 

The words come to her in slow motion. They are like an echo, a faraway melody to her ears. Sophia hangs up the phone slowly while the voices inside of her head catches her by surprise. What kind of mother will you be? How on earth will you be able to take care of a baby in college? So many voices swirling around her head. This time “time” doesn’t stop, but it slows down and then reverses so that she’d go back to every experience she had witnessed from her youth until now. It’s like what people go through when they are faced with a near-death experience—when their life flashes before their eyes. This feeling is close to death. Suddenly, her chest feels tight, like someone had punched the daylights out of her. Then a jabbing piercing pain shoots from that vital organ, a pain that is worse than one can imagine.
“Sophia, what’s the matter?” Margery asks, falling beside Sophia. “Let me call an ambulance.”
The sirens blare below the building, getting their attention. An EMT straps her on the stretcher, and Margery gets in beside her.
“Margery. It’s true. I’m pregnant. My life is over….”
“Your life is not over. There are options for you. Just don’t give up now,” Margery assures her.
“What options? This can’t be happening to me?”
The EMT then looks at her with sympathy. “It looks like you had a close call. From the look of things, your recent news about your pregnancy caused you to feel off. We have a social worker who will take on your case from here on out.”
“Cause me to feel off,” Sophia repeats, feeling the world coming at her full force.
“Yes, and you need to find some techniques to deal with this for the safety of your baby,” the EMT says.
Suddenly, another life is in her hands. A life the size of a nickel, and the thought to rid of the pregnancy crosses her mind. But it’s illegal. This issue that Sophia wants to enforce in Washington, and all over the world—a woman’s rights to her own body.

When Greg finds out, Sophia’s world moves in on her like closing walls. She can’t breathe. Greg’s disapproval stings her in the heart. Standing in his apartment, time stands still.
“How could have this happened?” he says, pushing his face into his hands.
“I don’t know. I thought we were safe,” Sophia says, stepping forward, catching the deep angry lines on his forehead.
“There are options, Greg. We can still make our relationship work,” Sophia assures him.
“What relationship? As far as I know, we are through. I’m not ready to be a father. I’m in college! When can I take care of a baby?” Greg says, exasperated.
“You’re breaking up with me, Greg? How could you? This isn’t the end. We can make it work.”
“You already said that, but I don’t see a future with you. It was just a one-night stand, that’s all. A one-night stand.” He turns and walks away.
“Fine, run away. The baby is still yours, whether you want to believe it or not.”
“Catch you around.” And Greg leaves her standing there with her mouth open, her heart broken. Nothing makes the least bit of sense. She tries to stop the tears from coming, but a powerful force within her cracks, and the tears come gushing out of her eyes quickly.

Sophia Miller is shaken by the inequality of women in Georgia so goes on a journey to work for the government, to eradicate the level of inequality, but when she gets pregnant, she puts her dreams on hold. When the nurse whisks away the baby into the hands of strangers, she has to come to the reality of a baby she’d never get to raise. After she gets her life back, she becomes an intern, then applies to Congress and gets the job, but is bombarded with the dark side of politics: people who don’t want her to succeed including the opposite sex. She perseveres despite the many people and begins her mission to vote on laws to make women equal and free. As a congresswoman, Sophia is well-pleased but has never forgotten her baby and goes on a mission to find her long-lost daughter even if there’s a chance she’d never be found.

Protagonist:
Amara
Goal:
To free herself from the harsh conditions of slavery and make a better life for herself
Stakes:
Failing will result in her continued servitude and could easily lead to her death
Obstacles:
Unfamiliar planet, New alien species, Different Languages
King and subjects’ entitlement to own slaves
Smaller and weaker than owners, with little resources, closely monitored by guards
Setting:
Planet Lixerous – M class planet similar to Earth with Humanoid Griffiths and Ogres, Set in renaissance era similar to Earth in Europe


One Sentence:
Abducted from home, Amara finds herself a slave among an alien race and must fight to secure a safe and free future
Book Cover:
After being abducted and forced into slavery, Amara finds herself on a new planet, Lixerous, far from Earth under the rule of King Danith on Lixerous where the ogres of the land have been enslaved to serve and protect the Griffin kingdoms. After a plague kills over half of the available ogres and severely depletes the number of fertile females, the kings decide to purchase human slaves from the Tomerack. Sold to the Griffin Kingdom, Amara becomes the chamber maid of the prince, Dasmark, and finds not all griffins support the current king. While explaining democracy and socialism to Dasmark, Amara cannot help but to fall in love with the ambitious and righteous man. Her quest to change her future is fraught with danger, uncertainty, and seemingly unsurmountable obstacles as she finds the strength and courage to embark on the path to her new destiny.

Lessson 2

Sleep didn’t come easy for Todd that night. He kept waking up and he couldn’t

get off his mind. He had to tell her their relationship was over. He felt sick about it.

They had been to together for two years. He wanted to believe he was tired of her, but

that wasn’t the truth. He’d lied about his income and now the truth was at hand. He had

so much pride he didn’t want to tell her. Pride had always been at the center of

his personality. He knew he had to tell her the truth.

He waited until morning before he called her. “Oh hi Todd, you’re up

early.” He took a deep breath. “I have to end the relationship Jennifer.”

She was silent for a while. “Is there something I did wrong?”

He knew he was doing the right thing. “No it’s nothing you did wrong

Jennifer, it’s me.” She had two kids and he knew he would miss them.

he just couldn’t affor her anymore. He could hear her weeping silently and

he was at a loss what to say. Finally, she said “Good luck to you Todd.”

He felt like a weight was lifted off him.

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The main character is Robert Slade

The story goal is for Robert to stop an ex-marine from going on a killing

spree, and killing the doctors who botched his surgery.

Story stakes-the protagonist will stop innocent people from being killed and

bring peace back to a community.

Obstacles- some of the obstacles the protagonist faces is to determine the

identity of the antagonist and his timing of the killings.

Setting: the story takes place in Chicago, Ilinois.

Silent Killer is about an ex-marine who goes on a killing spree because he feels the

doctors at the VA hospital botched his surgery to remove shrapnel and left his partially

paralyzed in one leg.

One-sentence summary of your story: A young coalitia leopard must learn to heal from the loss of her mother so she can protect a new coalition that wants to prevent a war with humanity.

Book Jacket Blurb

A young fiery coalitia loss not only her mother but a caring adult who believed in her. Layla must overcome her mother’s death and accept who she is “the protector”. Moving in a tragic direction of self loathe, an incident occurs at school that redirects Layla into a world she desperately tried to run from, but the coalitias have now caught hold of her. With the right friends and support, Layla is re-learning to become “the protector” she was born to be.

Precious Egyptian artefacts are stolen when journalist Ellie Parkes is attacked in the house she has inherited from a relative she never knew she had.

Having lost both her parents in an accident as a teenager, the items take on special status.   

Determined to get them back, Ellie accepts the help of a charming, treasure hunting archaeologist, but is he what he seems?

Together they pursue the items from London to Paris then to Istanbul and finally to Egypt.

Along the way they encounter a ruthless antagonist who will stop at nothing to find the artefacts before Ellie does, including kidnap and murder.

I’d be interested what people think, ta

Sally

A one-sentence summary of your story

A full-time mom, and a social activist, suddenly discovers a painful truth about her own fairy-tale life and is forced to deal with a betrayal of a different kind

Book Jacket Blurb

A happy marriage, three children, and a life with very few complications; or that’s what Keerthi thought when it falls apart and leaves her with little time to think as her children are in different stages of their education.

The only option is to earn money and support her family. With a valuable education, she had planned to work at a later date, not now. Yet life had something else in store for her and she took it, the work that she always wanted to do. Teach.

The story takes many turns and each is an extremely challenging learning curve, where the protagonist grows with the help of her family and friends – and her kids become better individuals.

Where does betrayal come in here? What is the role of the man in the house? It is to be seen …

In the year 2050, Everest Johnson, abandoned by family and friends, sits on death row knowing he is an innocent man. But the appeals process is complete, and he has given up. Before the final bell, he is offered a transfer to a mysterious new prison – an experiment, the Warden called it – where inmates roam free. He soon learns that the guards are artificially intelligent androids and will use lethal force without much provocation. He is literally now a rat in a cage. With a background in computer science, he smells something he hasn’t for a long time. There is a chance. A new, burning desire to escape is born.