Saturday, March 31, 2012

Story Idea:
Joe Frilk, a husband and father of two teenage daughters wants to take his family to their old summer home in Cape Cod which they haven't been too in a few years. He wants to go for about a week and have them all fix up the house together. Joe feels his family is drifting apart so he thinks a week together in Cape Cod will help them out. While they are there things escalate when he finds one daughter smoking pot and the other progressively getting sicker from her eating disorder. His wife is distance too, (I need to figure out why she is distant could be work related, or something that happened recently) I will focus on different scenes like one day when they go to the beach and the daughter with the eating disorder leaves to go workout. I need to think of some other scenes to lead to the climax like catching his other daughter smoking pot. I might throw in some flashbacks too of when the family was in Cape Cod and they were closer. The climax will come when they are having dinner one night and his daughter won't eat. As the tension escalates fighting breaks loose between all the family members. I want to end my story with Joe working on the house the last day they are there, showing he won't give up on his family.

3 comments:

  1. Sounds realistic enough. Be cautious of cliches, though.

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  2. Try to leave the ending open for revision and changes. It's good to have an IDEA of how you might wrap things up, but plotting out the climax/end sequences beforehand is like putting the blinders on a racehorse. I like the concept, and if you have a change of heart, stick with it and take a risk. You can always fall back on your original plan.

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  3. I second Mike and Aidan's advice. advice. That said, I think there is great potential in this piece. One other point, make sure you know why the father is upset about the daughter smoking pot. Does he have a particular vendetta against the drug (which might ring false), or is it more of the idea that his daughter has been deceptive and could potentially head down the wrong path. Just want to make sure you keep his reaction realistic. Anyway, sounds good!

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