Pink Flame Pitch

May contain strong language

Story summary

One ambitious girl in her twenties living with her grandma, who is passionate about art and asian culture, shares in aesthetic way her thoughts and feelings she has felt and thought during 4 years of long distance relationship with a chinese boy and beyond. How the story started, what they had to go through as a couple and did the external events like comeback of girl’s parents to her life, corona epidemic and financial situation really influenced relationship to a breakup?

How was the girl dealing with depressive thoughts all the way, what break up did to her and how did she discover self love and self healing journey?

What is so special about the story?

The story touches many topics: relationship with food and weight by the way girl feels, between-generation-understanding, long distance relationship, lonely feelings, depression, abusive relationships, other aspects of impacts on relationships during corona, searching own identity and own voice, problems with having no self worth, importance of searching the way of self love, self care and putting yourself first, common feelings of the artist during process etc.

In what market the book fits?

Young adult (From teenage age above)

Outline - what is the plot?

1. A setup - just give me a reason to make my heart beating.

Girl having no place to go, being underdog of her family, loosing every trust to other people finds a person she finally trusts. At first she is prepared to get hurt, she is very skeptical about deepening the relationship, but one day she just goes with the wave and let herself be taken away by the emotions. She discovers many new things and she is believing in the world she used to push away.

- getting to the university

- sharing her story

- showing her country

- puppy love thoughts and excitements

- experiencing chinese culture

- comparing the families

2. A conflict - the rockbottom is as deep as you make it.

While her feeling are developing even deeper that she ever expected, her thoughts and pressure of current situation is making her believe that the relationship she opened up to became an unbearable burden she is no more able to carry. She decides to leave under the pressure, but once she is able to breath again, the choice she has made became fatal and she feels being cut off all again and she falls into the downward spiral of her bad thoughts, bad habits, self harm and self underestimating.

- seeing culture and family background as a big point of misunderstanding.

- leaving her dreams for the sake of her family

- changing surrounding, dealing with the pressure, making big decisions without any proper communication.

- Dealing with pain of being lonely

- feeling like standing in a way of partner happiness because of the situation, among other pressure he has found friend who is a girl.

- corona break, making even more complicated situation

- break up

- I want you back, but it’s too late

- self harming episodes of celebrating freedom, escaping the pressure and responsibilities.

- being more social but actually much more alone.

- going by the wrong path.

3. A resolution - the stronger wind, the stronger wings.

After realizing the bad habits are not leading anywhere only to self-destruction, she is making small steps to change her point of viewing the world and importance of how much matters is to talk to herself kindly. She is looking back at the relationship without blind hate and she realizes how the surrounding has influenced her and she makes the pain and weakness into her new strength.

- Being disgusted by the current situation

- Trying to heal

- seeing other point of view of the story

- Making wise decisions towards her goals

- Feeling peaceful, calm and strong, ready to fight her way up.

Character sheets

The Girl:

From a victim who blames everyone around of her misery, she becomes strong independent (soldier-like) individual.

= From cute girl-lady to a bítch to a grown woman with strict priorities.

She used to be kind and open minded, but throughout the story she becomes less as her old self.

The girl likes to use her old phone, just to send herself messages which makes her more courageous. Sometimes she likes to listen cassettes on old walkman just because it is fun. She likes to read existentialists and philosophical literature.

She loves art and asian culture.

Pink Flame - image 1 - student project The Boy:

The boy is wearing round glasses, he is acting nice, sympathetic.

Likes Pink Floyd, trips, books and playing with his keys, American literature.

He is naive kind of a character seems childish, little slow witted about some things, but other way very smart.

From caring and naive kind of person he becomes less caring and strong opinions minded.
Pink Flame - image 2 - student project

Sample pages

Sample pages I.

The page belongs to a middle of a story when she is starting to think she is better off alone again. The girl going through big amount of pressure cuts off her hair as a new beginning.

She shares her idea first with people she considers as closest ones, but she is in a position against opinions of both, her grandma and her boyfriend, when it is seen they are both not respecting her wants and needs and aren’t aware of her identity as a person.

Sample pages II.

Page at the beginning when the couple was finally together in China, Hainan. They walk hand in hand at night after chinese new year, a lot of trash is around. Girl stops, looks at the moon thinking … How many times will I look at the Moon with hope of seeing you again and walking like this next to you once more?

Boy’s looking at her asking 'what are you thinking about now?'

Girl just squeeze his hand more. 'Nothing, I am just happy walking like this next to you. It feels so normal and uninteresting to walk, but for us, right now, in our relationship it feels like something we are actually very happy about and something we can treasure.’

Sample pages III.

Later in the story the mentioning of the moon will appear when the girl is sitting on the roof terrace just with bra and jeans, smoking. She is looking at the city view feeling guilty of sleeping with the man who is indoors.

She starts to yell at the moon: 'Goddamn don’t look at me you fucking prick, it's your fault anyways!’

The boy from the inside starts to yell at her if she become mad or something, swearing at her and taking her away from the flat as she is.

She is leaning hand and head on the doors and then sits down by the doorstep with the tears. See what you did again, you cause me pain even you are somewhere far away and happy. She is realizing she has to stay there waiting, because she has her sketchbook in there.

When morning comes there is old lady with headscarf passing way. She gives the headscarf to a girl. 'You should dump him, he is not worth it if he leaves you like this.'

He is not the first who has made me feel this way, actually this doesn’t hurt that much. ‘Thank you so much, it is very kind of you. I would have left back home, but I have my sketchbook there.’ She says while making improvised t-shirt out of the scarf.

‘Do you want to come in to have a tea?’ The lady offers. No, no, you were already so kind, I can’t be more of a bother.'

The boy is coming out of the door and quickly getting into the car.

'Wait! Where is my sketchbook? '

'It was shitty anyways.'

'I didn't ask of your opinion, bring it to me!'

'I destroyed it.'

'What? There is everything there! It's part of my life! There are my memories and ideas there! You knew how important it was for me!'

'How I said, it's gone. Go back where you came from.'

Thats it.

I had enough

I need to change.

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