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WRITING OBSTACLE
Write three paragraphs detailing 1) the setting, 2) the characters, and 3) the action or event that will happen in your opening chapter.
Even if you don't know how the chapter will flow yet, you can begin building these ideas.
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The story begins at the City of the Wall, Damoran. Thr steward of the wall is met by a criminal overseer and made aware of some ununsual on going’s and they a blind eye is in need to turning.
Shortly there after, Kyah is introduced and her tale begins. She is given an order to head south and find a man named Farrago. A scholar of no particular importance who is more than probably holed away in The Library of Ettlemont high in the southern most mountains. Knowing that the Portals End Celebration is nearing, Kyah works to gather her resources and hop a caravan to the south.
As the road begins, she begins to hear rumors of heightened monstrous activities. Of bands of orc and goblins raiding the roads. If giants coming out of their maintain homes. And she very quickly js reminded of the dangers of the road.
The cold has officially set in. The usually busy streets of Newtown are almost empty when the afternoon light fades. People dress in big puffy jackets and oversized dark coats with bulky knit scarves draped around their necks, holding hot drinks and warm food that i am sure keep their belly’s full and satisfied.
Fred and I perch ourselves around a dwindling bin fire while blowing warm air into our hands to try and stop our teeth from chattering off our faces. We are standing so close together we could almost be hugging. People have donated a few winter clothes to the shelter recently but with more of us on the streets there’s not enough going round. Helen’s grabbed herself a bright pink oodie after fighting Eddie off for it. Poor Eddie, hes a bit of frail one. Not so strong in his old age. He’s got some old gloves with tears and a size too small parka jacket with only a thin cotton shirt underneath. I don’t know how he’ll last this winter. He managed to get some new track pants thankfully as his old pair had certainly had it. But still no shoes. Just some raggedy socks and thongs.
We’ve been standing round the fire all afternoon waiting on the news about what’s happening to our community. A few people who used to be regulars around here have recently stopped showing for their weekly meal and things are getting a bit suspicious, especially since these people aren’t the kind to just run off without saying a word to anyone. We might be homeless but we sure know a thing about community and sticking together. It’s important someone knows of your whereabouts, all sorts of things can happen to you out on the streets. Best to stay in a group to keep yourself protected.
The beginning setting is in Brooklyn New York, where LSN’s home is located. Their house used to be a large shopping center, but Emery Alexandra tricked the owners into thinking it was haunted and they immediately abandoned it and sold it to her for a reasonable price. Most people now think of it as a small, private school that nobody really knows or cares the details about. It had three floors; the upper floor was for food and medicine, the first floor had clothes, jewelry and other things such as school supplies and toys (stuff Walmart would usually have). Then there was the basement, which was used for storage. There was also suspected child labor happening down there. As you could imagine, LSN kept part of the top floor for eating, and the rest was for makeshift bedrooms for the boys. Emery helped move furniture around and add showers. The other location is set in Atlanta Georgia in a mansion. The mansion contained two floors with very high ceilings and many rooms. There Mason hosts his party. The mansion is mostly made of old looking stones with realistic looking fake moss on the outside. Most of the inner grounds is made of white marble 2) I have only just begun this story, so I only know about seven of the characters (MCs). Let’s begin with Jasper: he is the leader and founder of the spy group and spent six years training as an agent. Other wise known as ‘boss’ to the rest of the team, Jasper plans the missions and usually has a small role. He is not always a big part in the missions because the whole reason for making the spy team was to have children go places where most adults would be conspicuous. More on Jasper, he is Japanese and is pretty tall. He is good at blending in and lying at times. He never really knew his father and his mother died of an illness when he was four. His mom’s sister took him in and taught him the ways of spies. At the age of fifteen he goes through a trial and at sixteen becomes a trained agent and works along side two others. I haven’t thought up names for them yet though. I just know I want one of them to have been assassin turned spy and a theft turned spy. But that’s another story for another time. You don’t find out most of Jasper’s backstory until near the end of the book. At the age of twenty his boss, Emery Alexandra, becomes the boss boss, and Jasper and each of his teammates find there own teams from orphanages around the world.
Jupiter: she’s the youngest of the group and is already pretty short for her age. She is very expressive emotional and loving. She is black and has deep brown skin and usually wears her hair in two buns. Her dad was killed by the main antagonist of the story because he was a great spy for Emery Alexandra when she was two, and her mom died giving birth. So her orphanage was the only home she ever knew of. She grew up being a big help to the workers there. She was the one who fed the children showered them and kept them entertained with fantastic fantasies of warriors and kind dragons. She was taken in by Jasper when she was twelve. Jupiter is usually the one to design their disguises and tell them how to act.
Rain: she is Jupiter’s sister and is pretty different in personality and physical appearance. Rain is more of the shy type and has locks that come right above her shoulders that are reddish brown. Her skin is light brown with a sprinkle of freckles and a cute shaped nose and a sharp jawline. She wears round glasses and is deaf. There is a feature to her glasses where it shows what a person is saying if speaking to her. You already know most of her background. She is the one who makes their fake identities realistic with the paperwork.
Miguel: he is the charming one. At school everybody probably would have known him. He is Dominican and has a fade cut and light brown skin and freckles. They are not very noticeable though. Miguel does the hacking in most missions. His dad was a con man when his mom died of an illness. When his father abandoned him when he was seven (he wasn’t really fond of his father so his grief was brief, if at all existent), he took to the streets making money off of magic tricks and entertainment, all the while swearing to never steal and become like his father, even when times were tough.
Matteo: he is Italian and has hazel-green eyes, tanned skin and messy wavy brown hair. He is very shy and does the engineering work on the missions. He makes all the gadgets, including nearly invisible earpieces, unsuspicious looking communication devices, and even Rain’s glasses (Rain was forever grateful, and even teared up when she received them!). I haven’t really worked much on his profile, so I don’t really know his backstory.
Bea: she is often thought of as ‘really pretty’, only to her endless annoyment. To most being beautiful is a gift, but to her it means harassment. That’s why she taught herself how to fight. Her fighting skills only made her more great as a spy. She is Chinese and has bangs that nearly cover her eyes (her only disguise). Both her parents were great people, but were killed in a car accident, and Jasper offered her a job as an agent five years later when she was ten.
I’m running out of my word limit! I’ll continue it in another document.
Setting: The main setting of the story is the vampire boarding school, Batwing High. It was not always a high school, it was originally the castle of the vampire royalty. It was transformed into a school in 1872 by Sir Forest Batwing, who is still the school principal to this day. The building is very tall and it’s made from a very dark stone. Since the building is hundreds of years old, the stones are cracked in various places and there are vines growing in that space. Some parts of the school are newer, and they’re made from a shinier, white stone, for example the students’ dorms or the classrooms, more and more were added to the building over the years as the number of students increased. In January, the start of the vampire school year, each student must take a test their level of strength. The levels go from 1 to 4, classes and dorms are assigned according to level. The school has a few secret passages that the students and most of the teachers don’t know exist. One of them is in the library, and the entrance is hidden behind a bookshelf. These passages are far from the only secret the school is hiding. Being a student at Batwing High is not always easy, the classes are tough, the teachers are very strict, and not everyone is who they say they are.
Characters:
Opening Chapter: The story starts fourteen years before the main action of the book. It begins at the magical river; the Wishing Stream, where Mr. and Mrs. Dahlia visiting late at night. While they were there, they found Layne as a baby, a gift sent to them by the magic of the stream. Layne was found with a special necklace that also had its own magic.
Setting:
the chapter starts in her apartment then it moves to a coffee shop where a good chunk of the chapter takes place. Then she moves back to her apartment for a little bit then she’s in a park before she is somewhere she have never been before when the chapter ends.
The Characters:
Threw out the chapter you are following our first protagonist a long the way the audience meets her old boss and her dads old friend. Then in the coffee shop they meet our second protagonist but don’t know it yet.
The Event:
The first event is meeting our second protagonist Ethan, and then the second event at the end of the chapter is she gets sucked into anther forest by the devise that she was messing with.
The setting of “The Diary Of Kristie Spier” is Russia Moscow. She lives in a small home featuring a wooden house and bright hydrangeas a little cobblestone path with moss overgrowing over the edges.
The character of “The Diary Of Kristie Spier” is about Kristie Spier going into hiding then running out of food after her parent’s death. Kristie eventually dies.
SETTING: mostly in Mia’s place of work. Her office, which is pretty secluded. She has photo’s of her boyfriend and inspirational quotes on her desk. It’s winter, so it’s dark outside and the office is full of florescent lighting and holiday decorations. He office is small and just down the hall from her manager’s office. There’s no windows in her office, but the lobby area has big windows that look out into Saint Paul. It has a cozy fireplace and coffee machine that she will frequent just to stretch her legs. Her job is in downtown Saint Paul, so everything is pretty packed together but still quite cozy. There’s inches of piled snow on everything outside and holiday decorations are just starting to come down.
CHARACTERS: Mia of course. Our main character who is the focal point of the opening chapter. Everyone else will be perceived through her. Her boyfriend is referenced, but not seen. He is portrayed as a constant, hard working, logical man. He’s not the most affectionate person, but very true and loyal. He is at home when the chapter takes place, but details about their past will be shared. Mia’s boss is our final character for the opening chapter. She makes a brief appearance, wishing Mia a safe journey home in the snow and telling her to “bundle up”. She’s not a super important person in Mia’s life, so not much more than a physical description is shared.
EVENTS: Mia wraps up her day at work starts to head home. She closes down the office, bundles up, and makes her way to the car. IT’s super snow as she starts the drive home, listening to one of her favorite podcasts. When she reaches an ice round-about near her home, a car spins out and crashes into her, causing her to black out. Passively taking place in this chapter are a few key moments from her past being explained and laid out as a reference.
The Radia Kingdom -
A town of thatch roofed cottages and taverns surrounded by luscious greenery and rolling fields.
Lumina - the main character who we see the story through
The Lucrow Knights - who are a secondary focus in the opening chapter for characters, their individual names aren’t very important
I’m not sure if there’s many other characters to be shown yet but I think there will be.
Lumina is running from a strange shadowed figure she saw in the woods, whilst hunting. She is then arrested when she arrives back in the town as she is the accused suspect of attempt to assassinate the Queens husband.
Setting:
The realm of mirrors is a place of infinite possibilities, where the threads of fate and destiny dance together in an eternal tapestry, each thread reflecting the other, creating something that is both infinite and deeply interconnected. It is a realm of darkness and light, of illusions and bad technology, where one can learn to overcome their shadows and embrace their strengths. It is a place where Aurora, the Mirror Maiden, finds her deepest calling, a place where magic and wonder thrive, and restoring balance becomes her life's work.
Characters:
Aurora is a maiden of the mirrors, a warrior whose soul radiates the magic of the mirror world. She is courageous, determined, and devoted to restoring balance to the realm of mirrors, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Her journey is not just about defeating evil but about exploring the depths of her soul and learning to trust in the infinite potential of the mirror world.
The Mirror King is Aurora's greatest adversary, a master of illusions and bad technology. He embodies the shadows of the mirror world, the trickster whose power is drawn from twisting the truth and creating chaos. Yet, there is a glimmer of something else in his eyes, a sense of regret and lost potential.
Action:
The opening chapter begins with Aurora on a quest to defeat the Mirror King and restore balance to the realm of mirrors. She encounters twisted illusions and bad technology along the way, feeling the magic of the realm twisting and shifting around her. In the Mirror King's castle, she confronts him in a fierce battle, their words each like a spell, an incantation of sorts. Aurora emerges victorious, but her journey is far from over. She explores further within the realm of mirrors, realizing the infinite potential and wonder that lie within it, and that with the magic of the fragments of the realm of mirrors within her, she's still connected, and journey will never truly end.
The setting is San Diego County in 2068 - a smaller town in the northern part of the county. The world in 2068 is one of predictive technology and quantified automation. Everything is tracked. Everything is controlled. Everything is predictable. Nothing is exciting. Nothing is free. Nothing dies. Free radicals are readily replaced and aging is distant memory. Humans and pets can live however long they desire given they aren’t killed through accident, violence, or environmental forces. Nature is the only unpredictable aspect of daily life. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, and any other natural disasters happen in random ways. In many ways, they serve an important role in bringing in new humans. Free Breeding is illegal, forbidden, and enforced through mandatory, but reversible sterilization. Most importantly for this opening chapter is The Alignment, the process through which all known data is analyzed and living humans are sorted into like-minded, similarly-behaving communities. In this first chapter, our protagonist Mary finds out she has been aligned to a new community. No one understands, but she does.
Mary Casper is our main protagonist. She has always been aligned to northern San Diego Sector as a rambler. She is judged by others to be one of the kindest people in the world - which is an accomplishment in 2068 because everyone is kind due to the non-existence of suffering. Nevertheless, Mary harbors a secret, and it’s one that would put her into misalignment with the San Diego Sector. Mary has a profound distrust of other humans. It started slowly as she noticed strange occurrences deemed coincidental, but her mind is particularly good at connecting dots and seeing patterns. This ability combined with an exceptional memory meant that she was unintentionally analyzing data until something clicks and she sees an unmistakable pattern. This ability surfaced patterns that has made her question this supposed perfect world created by The Benefactors. The cracks her mind uncovers has led to this profound mistrust. Additionally in the first chapter we will meet Mary’s neighbor and traveling companion - Day Knight. Day is a loyal, but somewhat reckless companion. She is often rushing into situations without thinking because she feels safe in the her world. Mary used to feel this way also - everyone in the San Diego Sector feels that way. Day, in particular, is one of the earliest early adopters of any new technologies or ordinances released by The Benefactors. The last major character we meet in the first chapter is a young member of The Benefactors’ Alignment Team. His name is Yosem Osman. Yosem arrives in the San Diego Sector to facilitate the new Alignments. Yosem is also breaking the mold he was meant to fit. Although all data from his life screams Benefactor, he has recently felt something he can quite label of understand - discontentment.
The chapter will start with the action. Mary has been aligned to a stable, monitored sector. These sectors provide everything needed to enjoy life and avoid suffering, but the residents are co fined to the borders of their given sector. Mary fights, but she is eventually captured, sedated, and transferred to her new home. What she doesn’t know is that this will be the catalyst that propels her into true hero status.
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