Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Profile Ideas


Idea #1: Friend
  • From the country, so everything is about Wranglers and cowboy boots and country music
  • Whenever I go home with her, I get an accent (but I don't want to make the story about me of course)
  • Her dad built her house; she went to a high school where people would go sit in parking lots after school for fun
  • Her family loves their cat Cleo (even her 6'9" dad fusses over Cleo like a baby)
  • The decibels at family dinner conversations rival most rock concerts
  • I have endless stories from my time with her, but I've already done a project this year involving her

Idea #2: Boss
  • Swim lesson coordinator at the pool
  • Single mom with 3 kids
  • Energy levels through the roof
  • Four major food groups: diet Pepsi (Coke?), pretzels, Bagel Market bagels, and Altoids
  • Controversial ways of implementing ideas: she's not all or nothing, she's all or all
  • Sample snapshot: you walk out onto the pool deck and see a woman in a swimsuit, yoga pants, and goggles, lying face down on the pool deck showing the breaststroke to half a dozen fish-in-training shivering in the Vermont water
  • She's like the ball in a pinball game: rarely slows down and you never know where she's about to bounce off to

Which do you think would work the best from a storytelling perspective? Based on these bullet points, which profile would you be more interested in reading?

2 comments:

  1. I had a long comment written, but then it was deleted when I tried to post.

    A summary of what I said is this:
    -I think choices have potential
    -I think the first choice has more read-to-go story elements
    -I personally prefer the first choice because it seems more UNIQUE
    -I think your primary decision lies in whether you can write about something that you've already done a project on this semester. Whichever one motivates you to write most would be a good choice

    -Good luck! :)

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  2. either one would be interesting, the second might be more funny... but they would both work :)

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