Peril Requires An Action Figure
We have our basic setting from my last post. This neighborhood is strange in its need for individuals to remain separate, with little or no interaction. We won't ask why for now, but such a place would be like putting billiard balls into a confined space and keeping them apart forever. Something or someone must change the scenario.
Introducing our protagonist, the human cue ball.
He or she doesn't need to be an over-the-top figure, especially within my parameters of this place being somewhat like the street on which you live. I want to portray this cue ball beginning to interact very logically within this world of insular souls. What prompts him or her? The irresistible force. Maybe it's a teen female who has a need to compete with another teen female who lives just down the block. Such an interaction is logical because teen group dynamics have their own set of rules. Maybe it's an older protagonist who sees something from his or her past, and that enforced separation no longer seems feasible, at least not without some considerable inner turmoil and loss. Maybe that irresistible force comes from someone who is just moving into the neighborhood and presents a threat to our protagonist. Maybe no one else but our protagonist is threatened.
You decide. The story details flow from there.
The beauty of the author's task is the ability to fill in spaces within this cue ball experience. That teenager needs parents and other people at school to provide the friction that supplies the foundation to the story. Maybe this teen has a love interest. Maybe this older protagonist has a spouse and child or children. He or she must work, right? Bring in the details and enrich this tight little world. See, the answers are as close as your imagination. Isn't that what makes this creativity so impossible to resist?
I must apologize for such a long delay in posting a second entry, but these have been strange personal times. (My, I could make that a scenario for my protagonist to confront, the irresistible force supplied by an event.) I talk about that on my other blog, Musings of A New Southern Man. Here's a link to that story: https://bit.ly/2J00nK8
Introducing our protagonist, the human cue ball.
He or she doesn't need to be an over-the-top figure, especially within my parameters of this place being somewhat like the street on which you live. I want to portray this cue ball beginning to interact very logically within this world of insular souls. What prompts him or her? The irresistible force. Maybe it's a teen female who has a need to compete with another teen female who lives just down the block. Such an interaction is logical because teen group dynamics have their own set of rules. Maybe it's an older protagonist who sees something from his or her past, and that enforced separation no longer seems feasible, at least not without some considerable inner turmoil and loss. Maybe that irresistible force comes from someone who is just moving into the neighborhood and presents a threat to our protagonist. Maybe no one else but our protagonist is threatened.
You decide. The story details flow from there.
The beauty of the author's task is the ability to fill in spaces within this cue ball experience. That teenager needs parents and other people at school to provide the friction that supplies the foundation to the story. Maybe this teen has a love interest. Maybe this older protagonist has a spouse and child or children. He or she must work, right? Bring in the details and enrich this tight little world. See, the answers are as close as your imagination. Isn't that what makes this creativity so impossible to resist?
I must apologize for such a long delay in posting a second entry, but these have been strange personal times. (My, I could make that a scenario for my protagonist to confront, the irresistible force supplied by an event.) I talk about that on my other blog, Musings of A New Southern Man. Here's a link to that story: https://bit.ly/2J00nK8
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