Monday, November 24, 2008

The Fighter (Story One)

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Premise/Summary/Whatever: Young couple fall in love in high school and marry. The husband, a boxer-Jarom; wife- Elisebeth (Elise). Story starts in a small town in Canon City. They are sealed together in the Temple. They move to Georgia, where Jarom trains as a boxer. The become very wealthy from his efforts and he becomes semi-famous. After a few years of marital bliss, Elise begins to want more and more. Her greediness eventually leads to Jarom leaving his wife and giving her all he owns in an effort to make her happy. After his fleet, Elise finds out she is pregnant. She starts dating a guy from Jarom's gym who aids her in wasting the fortune Jarom and Elise had. Jarom tries to contact Elise a few times, but Elise never returns his phone calls or letters. After they lose the big house, many possessions and are living in a motel, the boyfriend abuses Elise and leaves. Elise, left with nothing else to do but live in her car, travels across country with her young child. She finds work here and there along the way and eventually ends up on the Western Coast, Oregon or Washington. The school where her new son attends, just so happens to be the same school as where Jarom is teaching PE, now.

Of course, there are loads more details, but those are the highlights. I REALLY NEED FEEDBACK, good or bad. If you read this, you better comment on here or send me a message somehow letting me know what you think...or else.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

What character is going to be your protagonist? Your antagonist? It seems a little risque for an LDS story, but I'm sure you'd give it a good treatment. I liked the story idea, I just think you need to have it a bit more focused. Try this link out - kind of a fun site :

http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/depts/resources/resour_writers/100daysbook/bk100da.html