Our hero looks like….Dylan Bruno! (And if you ever want to see this actor in action, check him out on Numbers, Friday nights!) His name is…Luke. I love that name. Jaxon and Caleb came in close seconds…which means, if we can, we’ll use those names for secondary characters. =). Our heroine looks like: Isla Fisher! (If you’re wondering where you’ve seen her face before…check out the new Shopaholic movie!) And her name will be…MacKenzie! We’ll have to see if our hero ends up calling her Mac..or Kenzie…or…??? Mia came in second…she sounds like a good friend for MacKenzie. So, so there we have it….faces, and names for our hero and heroine! In the meantime, don’t forget to hop over to Club Book Therapy and add your VOICE to the Inciting […]
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What do they look like? Pick the faces and names of our lead characters!
We’ve finally reached the place were we get to choose what our hero and heroine look like! We’ve had a lively discussion the last couple weeks on Voices, and I went through and listed all the heroes and heroine suggestions — great suggestions! However, we could pick from ten, so I picked ten of each. If you want to look back at the bios of our hero and heroine before you vote, go here. Then, pick their names. Again, I took these from our discussion. When you’re done don’ t forget to stop by Voices and add your ideas for the Inciting Incident and the Epiphany! (look for the discussions: Lies vs. Truth, and Inciting Incident) Vote! Every Voice counts. (Keep scrolling — there are four polls!) Online Surveys & Market Research […]
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The Actress and the Park Ranger! What, you didn’t like my talk show/teacher idea? Aw, my poor banjo-playing history teacher. But onward we go with our everyday Park Ranger hero, and our Celebrity! We have a few more elements to create before we can draft our story summary, and figure out the key points of the story… First – we need to figure out the hero and heroine’s spiritual epiphany. This is different than the black moment, which is all about their fears. The spiritual epiphany is what they experience shortly before or after the black moment, and it’s what the story is leading up to. So, to discover what the spiritual epiphany in, we need to look back into their past, and figure out what event or situation affected […]
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I hope you’re already dreaming up an inciting incident for your favorite premise! I know I am. But before we do that, we need to know who our characters are. Yesterday, I outlined the hero and heroine of the Talk Show Host and the Teacher. Today, let’s take a look at the Actress and the Park Ranger Who is our Actress? Our Actress has worked hard to get where she is. She was a good girl, a hard worker growing up, and her parents put her through school. She moved to Hollywood to follow her dream, and was an overnight success. She married an A-list star and life seemed to be going her direction…until she decided to make an indy film exposing the flesh-for-sale industry overseas…and the […]
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