Monday, June 25, 2012

Jack Continued

I know, I know, I owe you all two weeks worth of posts. I moved from Tennessee to Maryland last week though and it was stressful, so I didn’t have a chance to post. Double today though, I promise!

I didn’t get a lot of comments on Jack vs. Brittany a couple weeks ago, so I’ve decided to continue with Jack. He seems more dynamic to me. The rest I’ll figure out as I go along. Post 1 for today is going to be about the general structure of my novel, so kind of boring, but a little creative later on.

NaNoWriMo challenges you to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. That’s about 2000 words per day. Since I am writing 100 things, each story will be approximately 500 words, plus an introduction and conclusion. I’ll write about four stories per day. Some stories will be longer, some shorter, it depends on the depth of the thing Jack wants to do. I’ve developed a short list of stories I know I want to include, but it is far from complete and far from 100 stories.


So here is my outline thus far:


I. Introduction to Jack by Jack
    A. Introduction of Jack
    B. Intro of his ghost writer
    C. The concept of a bucket list/100 things
II. The stories (ordered by importance?)
    Potential Stories:
1. Go to the movies with friends
2. Have a best friend
3. Go to college
4. Cross the street
5. Be part of a group
6. Live alone
7. Hold a job
8. Have a sleepover
9. Have a drink
10. Text message
11. Vote
12. Buy my own clothes
13. Have a kid
14. Drive
15. Get married
16. Tell how someone is feeling
17. Tell when someone is teasing
18. Have the doctor talk to me
19. Look people in the eye
20. Tell a joke to make people laugh
21. Have a girlfriend
22. Make a whole room laugh
23. Have an ipad
24. Go on a bike trip
25. Be in a regular class
26. Stay up all night
27. Feel accomplished
28. Go to space
29. Ride a horse
30. Go to an amusement park
31. Learn to swim
32. Learn a language
33. Travel to another country
34. Fly in an airplane
35. Fly an airplane
36. Have muscles
37. Swim in the ocean
38. Win an argument
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II. Conclusion
    A. Challenges faced
    B. Barriers
    C. Author’s note - Jack has the same hopes and dreams as other kids his age, but there are more barriers for him to do even normal things


Okay, so everyone who is interested: What did you want to do when you were in high school? What was on your bucket list? what things did you surely want to do before a certain time? no matter how quirky, I’ll take them!

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