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Post by LOGAN IAN ELLIS on Aug 12, 2011 12:57:23 GMT 10
CHARACTERS
EMOTIONAL AMPUTEE STUCK IN PATHETIC RUT - ELLIS
EXCOLLEGIATE BOMBSHELL GIRL THAT BROKE HIS HEART - OPEN
OUT OF HIS LEAGUE FUTURE GIRL TO SAVE HIM - SCARLET
PLOT
ELLIS never liked himself. He was boring, anxious, and was the jedi master at stuttering when it came to punch-lines. His circle of friends never spanned more then two or three acquaintances (including his ever faithful net girlfriend from Canada). The only signature in his year book from High School was a teachers, he could recite every line from every James Bond movie, and he knew more components to computers then parts to a female's anatomy. Upon graduation from High School, he did was was natural of an 18 year old boy with no friends, who hated himself, was too scared to socialize, and had a 3.8 GPA did: he went into bio-mechanical engineering.
It was upon his freshman year of university that his blue eyes landed on something quite special indeed: EXGIRLFRIEND. She was witty, kind, intelligent, and some how (miraculously) interested in him. As far as he was concerned, EXGIRLFRIEND was a goddamn unicorn. And ELLIS was in love. After working up the courage to even start a conversation with her - things happened, time continued, and before the two of them knew it (after a lot of awkward silences, failed phonecalls, and social mishaps) the two were steady. EXGIRLFRIEND was everything ELLIS wasn't - she was free, vivacious and full of life. Most importantly however, she was a writer. And nonce EXGIRLFRIEND exposed ELLIS to the thrills of self expression via linguistics - he was hooked.
Fast forwarding to graduation, it was time to get out into the world and start life. As such, it was about time that ELLIS assumed (as nearly every man out of college would) that it was time to propose to his girlfriend of four years. Once the question was popped how ever, EXGIRLFRIEND did indeed become the notorious exgirlfriend, and ELLIS was left heart broken and alone with a near useless degree in English. Never having known what it was like to be with any one else coupled with his constant paranoia and self loathing - Logan Ian Ellis found himself in a very tragic, very permanent rut, yet nearly productive rut. During said rut - the man wrote two published novels and secured a job as a High School English teacher. This is all irrelevant though.
MODERN DAY: ELLIS is still struggling. He's scrounging for some thing, anything (besides his best friend) to give him a reason to get off the couch, put some goddamn pants on, and stop eating hot pockets while watching James Bond movies. Cue: the entrance of SCARLET. ELLIS needs some one to come in and catch him off guard, get him out of this and get him back to living...because it's not like he doesn't want to be social, he just for some reason has no motivation to be. I have a few ideas surrounding SCARLET, but for the most part it's completely limitless so long as she can put up with a stuttering, penniless* writing English teacher who's mother still calls him and yells at him to do laundry.
*That penniless part is a lie. He's actually rich off of his novels and lives in a big empty house to compensate for his lack of friends. Does that help swoon women?
OTHER IDEAS?I have a few ideas that I'm toying around with when it comes to this plot. These of course are just that - ideas. They aren't apart of the plot per se but they're just ideas to make it more fleshed out and dramatic.
- like maybe EXGIRLFRIEND is getting happily married to MR.ADONIS or something, which opens up more people to be involved in the plot. They can have man-offs or something.
- EXGIRLFRIEND and ELLIS still sleep together on occasion and/or she keeps leading him on with false hope every so often and this fucks up his chances with NEWGIRL
- EXGIRLFRIEND and NEWGIRL know each other? Maybe? I don't know.
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