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 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50.

51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

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!