~Story Idea~

Complete the sentence: I want to know why…
Why do her parents cheat the game?
Why does she agree to pay the expenses for her parents?
What will be the challenges she faces to pay for her parent's expenses?
What will happen when she becomes a beta tester?
How do the academies work?

~Who: Character~

Who is your main character?
A teenage girl around ages 15-17

Write ten facts about your main character, including a mix of demographic facts and facts that may not be visible to the outside world:
1. She wears dresses and skirts because she likes flowy clothing; she will wear jeans sometimes.
2. She gets enlisted into beta testing a role-playing game as a mythical fairy that normally is NPC &/or is super rare in the game. Her eyesight in-game is awesome. She can find hidden areas and see aura casting. (Aura casting is hidden casting through the soul aura very dangerous.)
3. A teenage girl who accepts too quickly on important aspects of her life.
4. Others use her to gain something at her expense and she doesn’t realize it.
5. RL & IRL begin to blur together for her at times with the people she is around.
6. She has a sister and step-brother she doesn’t know about.
7. She was raised in the cities below which games are mostly board games for augmented reality. 8. It is until she leaves for the academies and MMORPG games began existing.
9. She fears the unknown.
10. She uses the IRL to ward off her RL anxieties of closeness.

~Plot Worksheet~

What is your main character’s outside goal and outside obstacle?

Outside goal: Pay for her parent's expenses

Outside obstacle: She gains more debt because of the amount of time she plays to pay off their expenses. What’s worse her mother keeps gathering more expenses because of greediness that she must have the newest and best items (clothing, shoes, makeup, etc)

What is your main character’s inside goal and inside obstacle?

Inside goal: Find somewhere she belongs.

Inside obstacle: Afraid of closeness

Who is your supporting character?

IRL Knight- he supports, takes care, and protects her from harm.
Roommate in school dorm- She ignores her because she is foreign and doesn’t interact with new people easily.

~When and where: Setting~

Write three paragraphs describing where and when your story is set, including descriptions from all five senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch):
Set in the future where advanced technology reigns. There are crowded streets in the town she lives in with holograms selling clothing, shoes, and other items. For those who have more money, they can get augmented games instead of playing board games with AI document the score how long the player played the game as a way to earn coins to pay for expenses. The augmented doesn’t extend into their cities. Their education consists of basic education the better their grades and understanding of their education they earn coins so they can purchase cool prizes in school. This is the first taste what creates into a life long career. They play games as jobs and they can continue their education in order to improve skills in games they choose to play. VR games haven’t become popular in these cities.

There is a black market that sells gene-splicing pills that can mutate the user temporarily giving them the option to experience a different way of life. Some can change their human appearance by adding animal features or change their entire body genes to say young or even turn themselves into animals temporarily. An issue occurs with this because some become addicted to these features the pills give which causes corruption in the marketplace. More companies begin selling to the black market to make gracious amounts of money.

A city in the sky buzzes with creators for different types of games, and entertainment. Some games end up becoming reality TV for others to watch when they’re not playing. Typically those who play VR MMORPG games end up making money if the TV show people can follow their game life as long as they don’t give the game title away because they are beta-testing. All beta-testing VR games are tested in this city. Some augmented games are tested in the cities below for second testing before released to the overall public. School in this city typically is for beta-testing new games and skill heighten top players.

~What and why: Scene and structure~

What is your character’s core belief?
I don’t fit in anywhere.

Put your character’s outside goal and inside goal against one another in a way that forces them to confront their core belief and make a change or decision.
Example: “In order to achieve [outside goal], your character must confront [inside goal] by…”
In order to pay her parents debt and reset her debt, she must confront the feeling of where she belongs in this world.

Write a one-paragraph summary of your story, focusing on external action (if this was a movie, what would the camera see?):
A young teen comes home after school only to find her parents most recent items they purchased being moved out. Her parents have been banned from being able to play games because of cheating so they ask her to pay for their expenses until the ban is removed in three weeks. She signs the agreement to pay for their expenses not realizing that she will occur charges the entire time because the contract won’t allow her to pay for her expenses until she gets theirs paid for. Her circumstances get worse when she’s forced to move out with nowhere to go. Now she has to find a place she belongs while avoiding closeness to the new life she has been granted.

Now break down the action of your paragraph into three scenes:
Beginning/inciting event: Parents Cheating
How does your character feel at the beginning of the scene?
She is feeling happy that she got a decent amount of coins on her last exam especially since she sucks at math and she can get a treat.

How does she feel at the end of the scene?
Overwhelmed and not sure if she made the right decision agreeing to pay for her parent's expenses after they repossessed the new furniture they just got with parole officers being scary.

What decision does your character make, and how do they change as a result?
She decides to help her parents out after finding out they can’t pay for their expenses. She becomes more responsible.

Middle/rising action: Debt
How does your character feel at the beginning of the scene?
She is unsure and naive about her decisions but happy that she is paying off their expenses at a manageable rate.

How does she feel at the end of the scene?
Dread then fears of the unknown.

What decision does your character make, and how do they change as a result?
At this time her mother isn’t making it harder to pay for the expenses by buying more. She has the option to either move-out and continues to pay for their expenses (as the parent) or allow them to pay for their expenses and live with them as their child. She moves out to continue to help them pay for the debt. She opens herself to a new world outside of her regular life because the parole officers take her to the city of the sky.

Ending/falling action: Academy in the sky
How does your character feel at the beginning of the scene?
She feels alone because she knows no one at the academy she has been enrolled in.

How does she feel at the end of the scene?
Happy realizing she isn’t alone.

What decision does your character make, and how do they change as a result?
She decides she will try to make a friend. She begins to be a little more open to change and her new way of life.

How: Perspective, showing and telling

Write a brief first draft of your story incorporating the previous exercises, plus perspective, showing, and telling to amplifying the action. Start with one paragraph each for the beginning, middle, and end. Once you’re done, you’ll have a plot-driven rough draft ready for revision.
Beginning
She feels happy she just got 50 coins on her math exam since she doesn’t normally get good grades on math exams this time she got a B-. As she walks home she thinks over what she wants for a prize. Only for happy thoughts to disappear when she sees people loading the new furniture her parents bought two weeks ago into a moving truck. At first, she feels sad thinking she might be moving unexpectedly like before. She arrives into the house only to meet eye to eye with a very upset parole officer yelling at her parents for cheating on the game they’re playing. He informs them they owe 200,000 coins each in three weeks otherwise everything will be repossessed and they have to move to a town where beginners [recent high school graduates] live. Her parents ask her if she will help pay for their expenses since they can’t play games because they’re banned. Being overwhelmed in the situation she just arrived in she quickly agrees by signing a contract without thinking about the consequences of her actions.

Middle
She feels unsure about the decision she made a few days ago by from the overwhelming situation when she finds the fridge empty. Her parents inform her she must go shopping and once the ban is off they will pay her back. She ends at the store because they need food. Instead of getting the food her mother wants her to buy she buys cheaper foods that can hold them by until her next paycheck because over-half of the income she gets from good grades went to their debt. Her mother ends up having a fit only to result in half of the food unusable. Only if she read the contract she would know that one of the parole officers would be showing up as her mother throws the food at her. The doorbell rings neither parent moves from their spot expecting her to answer the door covered in food. The parole officer eyes her for a moment then comes in and closes the door. He asks her if her stuff is ready to move. Dread comes over her that she has to leave in food covered food or stay there knowing there won’t be a home to live in. She agrees to him thankful that her boxes are still packed from moving in four weeks ago. He calls the movers in to bring her belongings to the truck. No moment to spare or even say goodbye to her parents he starts guiding her out to the car parked. While entering the car she watches the movers put her last item in the truck and glances at her parents who shut the door without even looking at her. The door closes automatically then prompts for them to put their seat belts on afterwords the car asks for the destination. The parole officer tells the car the city in the sky it agrees then drives them toward her new destination.

Ending
They arrive at a lush giant academy split into three building locations. The parole officer has her wait there until he enrolls her into one of the academies. Once he finishes an AI bot comes to greet her telling her to follow to another car so she can go to the dorm and get situated. They arrive at the dorms with a bunch of girls and guys sitting in the lobby chatting until she comes inside following the AI bot. Both look at her for a second smiling then continue their chatting without even noticing if she did smile. She catches up to the AI bot through three hallways then up a set of stairs then down two more hallways until they arrive at her room. The Ai bot unlocks the door through drawing a symbol that it handed her a few minutes ago. She enters the living room only to be a little bit more happy to see that she isn’t alone in this new foreign home. The AI bot leaves them as they say hi and the roommate informs her where her room is.

There is more I want to jot down, but here are some ideas I already had. I'll outline later I want to finish the believable characters first. :)

This is Sci-Fi related story.

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