Story Stuff

Monday, Monday. But I'm home and I have my document open. I got up at five a.m to do my 40 min work-out so I'm a bit sleepy but I won't go to bed until I've done some work on Dirty business.

My favorite time of year is coming up! The weather is cooling down and I'm able to breathe and sleep much better. Halloween decorations are starting to infiltrate the stores. Lots of cute and creepy things about, and I'm looking at them with an eye of tricking out my work cubical a little bit this Halloween. Last year two of the girls and I wore witch hats. I think the girls are up for it again this year.

I was just looking at Alexandra Sokoloff's post here which discusses various types of story situations. She points us to this link, which lists the 36 Dramatic Story situations.

I've got severals of those listed in Dirty Business:

- Deliverance
- Crime
- Pursuit
- Abduction/Guardian
- Self-sacrifice for an ideal

This book also has strong fairytale elements woven into it. I didn't realize this until I began really analyzing the elements of the story, but it really does. As well as betrayal and the consequences suffered as a result of betrayal.

I can see a strong mentor factor going on in this story as well.

I'm having fun identifying all this stuff. Very neat.

Okay, back to work for me.