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Jack’s World and Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is that each of my characters needs mystery, intrigue and suspense built into their individual stories and relationships.
1. CONCEIVED
CONCEPT – Two professional women who are lovers freeze their eggs for future fertilization but the eggs are stolen and children are born without their knowledge.
WORLD – The world of Conceived is the world of high finance, gene editing and cloning, which combined with religion and politics provides a look into the near future of those who want to run the world.
BIG MYSTERY – What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story? What will happen to Victoria’s and Kayla’s children? Who are the fathers?
BIG INTRIGUE – What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded part that will live under the surface for most of the movie – Professor Matthews switches Kayla’s and Victoria’s eggs, so the children born, when found, are not who the “parents” think
BIG SUSPENSE – What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script – Both Professor Matthews and Kung Jo will try to kill Kayla and Victoria when they get close to finding out the truth
MAIN CHARACTERS
1. KAYLA
A. What is the mystery of this
character? – What will happen in her relationship with Victoria when the
truth of their children is discovered?B. What is the suspense of this
character? – She sues the Sugarcane King whose voodoo wife places a curse
on her. Then Professor Matthews and Kung Jo threaten her life when she
joins forces with Victoria to find their children.C. What is the intrigue of this
character? She thinks she can overcome incredible obstacles1. VICTORIA
A. What is the mystery of this character? – Can she find her children and keep her hedge fund from being hacked, all at the same time?
B. What is the suspense of this character? – Constantly at risk of losing the funds she manages – Then her life when she joins forces with Kayla to find their children.
C. What is the intrigue of this character? Brilliant mind, but uses it in unusual ways to get what she needs
3. PROFESSOR MATTHEWS
A. What is the mystery of this Antagonist? What does his being Scotland’s Head Druid have to do with his plans for Victoria’s eggs.
B. What is the suspense of this Antagonist? Being the owner of the cryogenics lab where the eggs are stored, he gets paid for Victoria’s eggs but gives Kung Jo Kayla’s instead and steals Victoria’s for himself.
C. What is the intrigue of this Antagonist? What are his plans? He plans to have a son with royal blood using Victoria’s eggs.
4. KUNG JO
A. What is the mystery of this Antagonist? _ He has cloned himself and wants his clone to mate with the richest, most athletic, most powerful women on earth.
B. What is the suspense of this Antagonist? He fends off Victoria and Kayla learning the truth, even though he doesn’t even know the children are not who he thinks because the eggs were switched.
C. What is the intrigue of this Antagonist? He wants to take over the Chinese Communist Party with a fifty year plan for his clones.
2. CASTING CALL
CONCEPT: Two girls leave the farm for L.A. The one with talent finds the reality of the fast lane and her sister must save her from the life she has fallen into, not realizing she herself is being cast into a life-changing role.
WORLD: The world of casting stars in L.A. and how it relates to a Saudi oilman who seems to run everything through his ability to own women who help him blackmail the world’s elite.
BIG MYSTERY – Will Lyla save her sister? Will her sister want to be saved? What does Fareem do to the girls to get them to elevate his status with the world’s elites?
BIG INTRIGUE – Sandi becomes involved with her abductors. Will Lyla let Jackson into her life?
BIG SUSPENSE – Lyla’s life is endangered as she pieces together the truth.
CHARACTERS
1. LYLA:
A. What is the mystery of this character? – Will she return to the farm or become the one that succeeds in L.A. Will she allow herself to love Jackson?
B. What is the suspense of this character? – She thinks she can accomplish things, but her plans always get her into danger.
C. What is the intrigue of this character? She’s unusual in that she rides bulls, fixes tractors and can fight, but also has an untapped feminine side.
2. SANDI.
A. What is the mystery of this character? – When raped, why does she then submit to her rapist and believe his promises.
B. What is the suspense of this character? – She has great talent as a singer, but is raped, then changes and joins forces with the antagonist and becomes her sister’s enemy.
C. What is the intrigue of this character? How can such a simple Iowa farm girl become a Ghislaine Maxwell enabler to one of the world’s savviest blackmailers.
3. FAREEM
A. What is the mystery of this character? – Who is he and why does he have so much power?
What is the suspense of this character? – He runs afoul of the world’s most powerful men when they won’t do what he wants them to do after providing women for them.
C. What is the intrigue of this character? He is one of the most powerful men in the world, running governments and secret societies with blackmail through sex.
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Koz Mraz – The World of Mispers and Characters
What I learned is clearly define your characters and write the villain first, everything revolves around them.
The Big Mystery: Hundreds of thousands go missing every year and the scores of murdered body’s dumped along highway 40 are a clue to who and why.
The Big Intrigue: It’s not just serial killings, there is a clandestine operation that is abducting and parting out human organs not only for sale globally, but is secretly funded by a covert government faction with the goal to create super soldiers.
The Big Suspense: Journalist Zac King and Lisette Duran (A Central Security Service Agent) unravel the plot and then become hunted down by deadly biologically enhanced assassins, her own CSS Agency, and the “Partsmen” who sell human organs on the black market.
The World of Mispers – Missing persons. Over 600.000 people go missing in the US each year. Many are abducted, parted out for sale to the unhealthy wealthy, for scientific research into human weaponization and genetic cloning for a sinister future agenda.
Top Characters
Zachary King: A renowned moto-journalist who travels the globe on motorcycles writing books and features on culture, exotic destinations, and adventure travel.
A. Mystery – A lucid dreamer, he will learn his dreams reveal the future.
B. Intrigue – Writing a story on the Corridor of Death falls for Lisette
C. Suspense – His insatiable quest for adventure is a two-wheeled thrill ride.
Lisette Duran: A Central Service Security Agent posing as a prostitute Madam to find perpetrators of murdered prostitutes.
A. Mystery – Raised by a Voodoo priestess she hides her history.
B. Intrigue – Her mother, who Liz thinks is dead reveals Lisette has a special talent.
C. Suspense – A genius at crime-solving, Liz rose to the top of the Central Secret Service but has hidden enemies.
General Madison and Voodoomama (Lisette’s Mother): General Madison is the director of the government’s covert Goldlance Project, enhancing and weaponizing super solders and Voodoomama is the brains behind, Unity 7 a clandestine bioengineering and genetic manipulation program.
A. Mystery – General Madison will at all costs hide a secret history
B. Intrigue – Voodoomama knows Liz has six identical sisters
C. Suspense – Madison orders the assassination of Lisette and Voodomama the assassination of Zac King.
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What I learned doing this assignment is that mystery, intrigue, and suspense are the heart of thriller writing.
Judith’s World and Characters!
Judith’s Assignment 3, Lesson 3 of Thrillers
REUNION FROM HELL
1. M.I.G.
Big Mystery: Why are the sister’s estranged and why is Rachel trying to kill Emily? Big Intrigue: Will Rachel’s plan to fool Emily into thinking she wants reunification work while all along she plans to kill Emily? Big Suspense: Will Emily realize what Rachel is up to and stop her before it’s too late?
2. Tell us the Intriguing World you have selected for this story…my intriguing world is sibling rivalry.
3. With your top 2 or 3 characters, tell us the role they play and then answer these three questions.
a. EMILY/PROTAGONIST – Emily has decided to go on with her life after her sister has disowned her. She’s been sending her sister letters for the last 10 years requesting they make up, but the letters have been returned with “return to sender” message on them. When Rachel shows up vowing reconciliation, Emily gives in, but after a while she learns that Rachel is not here to reconcilate but to destroy.
b. RACHEL/VILLAIN – Rachel has been jealous of her little sister all her life. She really isn’t a biological sister but adopted. She believes their mother loved Emily more than her. In addition, Rachel was always interested in art and tried to make a go of an art career but failed. On the other hand, Emily has succeeded and now is going to have her own gallery art show. In addition, Rachel blames her failure to succeed in art because when they were kids, Emily stole one of Rachel’s drawings, entered in a contest and won. Rachel has never forgave Emily for taking away that opportunity from her.
4. What is the MYSTERY for Emily’s character? Who is trying to kill Emily and why?
5. What is the SUSPENSE of Emily’s character? The suspense is whether Emily will wake up in time to save herself and her family from Rachel’s evil intentions.
6. What is the iNTRIGUE of Emily? Why does Emily keep Rachel’s return letters for over 10 years?
7. What is the MYSTERY for Rachel’s character? Why is Rachel trying to destroy Emily and what is her end goal?
8. What is the SUSPENSE for Rachael’s character? Will she succeed in fooling Emily and kill her, her family, and take over her life?
9. What is the INTRIGUE of Rachel? Rachel is a revengeful person who can’t let go of past hurts and blames others for her lack of success.
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Subject line: Patricia Milton’s World and Characters
What I learned doing this assignment is the MIS of my villain and hero are inextricably linked.
1. My CONCEPT: A tech whistleblower who’s been blacklisted for years swears to remain loyal to the company that finally hires her … then discovers something there is very wrong.
The Big M.I.S. of my story:
<div>Big Mystery: What is Xtopher/Bubble trying to hide?
</div><div>Big Intrigue: What does the IA wearable called the
Ver-2 actually do?</div>
Big Suspense: How/will Kamiri testify before the Senate
Tech Committee?2. The Intriguing World I have selected for this story: Bubble, a tech Giant engaged in a clandestine AI experiment.
3. Kamiri:
Big Mystery: What was her relationship to Xtopher &
what happened?Big Intrigue: Will she learn what Xtopher is doing?
Big Suspense: Will Kamiri break bad or truthfully
testify?Xtopher:
Big Mystery: What was his relationship to Kamiri before,
and what does he want now?Big Intrigue: What is he up to with the Ver-2?
Big Suspense: Will he succeed in persuading Kamiri to “break
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: Smarter than God TV series The hitmans holidayOur family flees Detroit into witness protection in Monvovia California after my dad the sole witness when the mob executed a hit on his boss the head of the teamsters union.
My two big brothers and I entered Monrovia high school one of the ball players whistled and tried to hit on me as he grabbed my guitar case. That was when out of nowhere when my big brother Cane got in his face and stopped him in his tracks. It was obvious no one had ever stood up to this guy before
Since this guy was the teams QB he was a BMOC so his posy tried to set Cane up. Just as one of the linemen knelt behind Cane the QB went to push Cane ,who then did a back flip over the top pulling the QB down over his own lineman.
Just as fast as he could the big defensive linebacker stepped in to help his QB who was now clearly in trouble. That’s when my other big brother Troy knocked him out cold with one punch.
Troy asked if their was going to have any more problems? The answer was a collective no as both the team and crowd dispersed as we all got to our prospective classes.
So many questions. Everyone was asking who were these guys ,where did learn to do that and what brought them here in the first place?
One thing was for certain Monrovia high would never be the same again now that the Adamoich family had come to their town.
The mystery They would soon to find out however how much that was going to be the understatement of all time.
The intriguing part is how many people want their family dead and the things they would and have to do just to survived to complete their suspense of their missions.
Cane says about Troy me you should respect him you should fear,I’m HIGH action he’s HIGH IQ. MY sister can perform moms a nuclear doctor at Huntington hospital,dads a former USSR admiral. We are talent for a purpose on assignment.
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Ian Patrick’s World and Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is.to start getting specific about the lead characters’ M.I.S.
1. Remind us of your CONCEPT and the Big M.I.S. of your story.
Big Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story?
Who is committing a series of street killings and why?
Big Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that will live under the surface for most of the movie?
The motivation of the killer and the suspicion that the lead detective might actually be the killer
Big Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script?
Will he be killed by the suspect…or by his fellow officers?
2. Tell us the Intriguing World you have selected for this story.
San Francisco Police Dept. – Detective Division
3. With your top 2 or 3 characters, tell us the role they play and then answer these three questions:
HERO
A. What is the mystery of this
character?Can he solve who is behind all of the recent killings
B. What is the suspense of this
character?Is he still suffering from PTSD and reverting back to his violent past, acting out his frustration with criminals that are never apprehended
C. What is the intrigue of this
character?Can he convince fellow officers that circumstantial evidence that implicates him isn’t proof
VILLAIN
A. What is the mystery of this
character?Why is he acting as judge, jury and executioner of street criminals
B. What is the suspense of this
character?Can he be stopped
C. What is the intrigue of this
character?What is his obsession with biblical justice as the Angel of Death
HERO’S PARTNER
A. What is the mystery of this
character?Can he help to stop the killer
B. What is the suspense of this
character?Will he become a victim
C. What is the intrigue of this
character?Can he balance concern for the hero with objective police work
POLICE PSYCHOLOGIST
. A. What is the mystery of this
character?Can she tell if the hero is telling the truth about his activities
B. What is the suspense of this
character?They once were lovers; she hopes to rekindle the romance if he’s innocent
C. What is the intrigue of this
character?If she’s wrong, she could be another victim
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Michelle Donnelly – Creating World/Characters with M.I.S.
What I learned doing this assignment: to infuse M.I.S. into every character and your world will strengthen your goal of making a story that is a thriller.
1) CONCEPT and the BIG M.I.S.:
Concept: A cardiologist must uncover who is murdering her colleagues before either she herself is murdered or the police wrongly accuse her of their murders. <div>
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Big Mystery: Who is killing those closest to the cardiologist?
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Big Intrigue: That a heart from a man unknown to be a serial killer was transplanted upon his death into a man whose personality is now becoming altered from the effects of cellular memory.
<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Big Suspense: Will the cardiologist be able to find who the killer is before more people die or before she is murdered?
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>WORLD: A community hospital that, in order to survive, is facing a merger with a for profit health system.
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>HERO: Griffin
Mystery: Why are the people closest to Griffin dying? </div><div>
Intrigue : Left her last job under mysterious circumstances and is in danger of losing this job as well.
Suspense: Will the detectives formally arrest Griffin for the murder of her colleagues? Will the actual killer kill Griffin?
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>VILLAIN: Adam
Mystery: Why is his personality changing after receiving a heart transplant? </div>
I<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>ntrigue: Does cellular memory actually have the ability to effect changes in a heart transplant recipient enough to cause them to become a serial killer?
<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Suspense: Will he continue to kill those around Griffin? Will he kill Griffin?
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<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>SUPPORTING CHARACTER: Ennis, Griffin’s father. Was best friends with the now dead serial killer.
Mystery : Did he know that his best friend was a serial killer? </div>
<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Intrigue: Along with the now dead serial killer, Ennis received a Mayor’s Award for trying to ‘save’ one of the victims.
<i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Suspense: Did Ennis take part in the serial murders?
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Bob’s World and Characters
Title: Incinerator
Logline: A naïve EPA field inspector stumbles upon an underworld-owned waste incineration facility being used to dispose of bodies.
Big mystery: Who is ultimately behind the use of the incineration facility to dispose of bodies?
Big Intrigue: Is Joseph alone in his quest to solve the mystery. Are the police and his superiors all part of a coverup?
Big Suspense: Will Joseph be incinerated before he can expose the crimes being committed?
Intriguing World: Industrial waste management business subject to ongoing inspections for environmental compliance being used for criminal activity.
Characters
HERO: Joseph Green
· Mystery: How does he prove that the suspected criminal activity is occurring?
· Intrigue: Is he in over his head. He is just a scientist who reports on environmental issues, not murder.
· Suspense: Will he, himself, be incinerated because of what he’s discovered.
VILLIAN: Frank Starr
· Mystery: Why is he obsessed with eliminating Joseph Green.
· Intrigue: What deeper secrets is he hiding that are driving his actions regarding Joseph Green.
· Suspense: Will he be able to protect his secret operation and quietly eliminate Joseph Green.
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Sherri D. Coffee – World and Characters
What I learned doing this assignment was to create a framework and characters with mystery, suspense and intrigue for the story.
1. CONCEPT: A young lobbyist is recruited to join a prestigious firm. On her first day, the man who recruits her commits suicide but leaves her an external storage device. She secretly investigates to understand why and uncovers a network of foreign contacts. As she delves deeper, she links her firm contracts with a coordinated effort of foreign players who want to destroy the United States. She must figure out who to trust, and how to proceed to reveal and stop the effort.
MIS:
Big Mystery: What is the purpose of the network and how can Charlotte stop them?
Big Intrigue: Who coordinates the network and what role does her firm play?
Big Suspense: Who can Charlotte trust? Will she be exposed, forced to support the network, or be killed?
2. Intriguing World: Lobbying firms, politicians, foreign governments, and government officials. (Money, power, politics, espionage)
3. Character roles:
Unwitting Hero: Charlotte Lane
Mystery: Why did Ford choose her? What does the information he left to her mean? The more she uncovers, the more dangerous her world becomes.
Intrigue: Charlotte leverages her lobbying position to secretly gather information about the network.
Suspense: Will Charlotte uncover the power behind the coordinated network? Will she find out who to trust with the information? Will she be exposed, forced to support the network, or be killed?
Red Herring: Manny Lane
Mystery: What does he have to do with Charlotte’s firm and her investigation?
Intrigue: Why did Manny resign from the CIA?
Suspense: Is Manny trying to save or destroy the US?
Villain: Joe B
Mystery: As the founder and president of the lobby firm, what role does Joe have with the foreign network?
Intrigue: Joe is very likeable but obsessed with money, politics, and foreign affairs.
Suspense: Who is Joe really and what is his relationship to the network?
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Jennifer Miller’s World and Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is if you build the world and the characters based on MIS I will have a killer thriller.
1. Logline: A romantic thriller about a woman suffering from amnesia, who tracks down clues to discover the killer and clear her name, while being torn between her growing attraction to the man who saved her life and the fiancé she doesn’t remember.
The Big M.I.S.:
Big Mystery:
Margot receives an explosive document from a whistleblower that could drastically change the terms of the corporate merger, but the document is fake, and when Margot’s assistant, who was working to authenticate the document dies from an apparent accident, the mystery becomes— What would be valuable enough to leak a fake document, kill Esme, and attack Margot?
Big Intrigue:
The underhanded plan of a ruthlessly ambitious Walt Milhouse to frame his boss Percy for the missing money and take over the company by killing Esme and Margot. Or… Walt’s true deception to frame Percy for the stolen funds is uncovered and he will silence anyone who saw the real document.
Big Suspense:
Will Walt kill Margot?
2. Tell us the Intriguing World you have selected for this story.
Ruthless ambition inside a large a well-loved family-owned and privately-held bakery. The acting CEO desires to destroy the competition with a new acquisition that is hotly contested inside the family as fraud and embezzlement schemes emerge.
3. With your top 2 or 3 characters, tell us the role they play and then answer these three questions:
HERO: Margot Godot
What is the mystery of this character? Who attacked her and why?
What is the suspense of this character? Will her memory return so she can expose the attacker?
What is the intrigue of this character? Will the killer strike again?
RED HERRING: Percy Devlin
What is the mystery of this character? Did he kill Esme and attack Margot to cover up fraud inside his company and save his reputation?
What is the suspense of this character? He does not want to sell his company to a behemoth, but he likes to play the game and has a gambling problem.
What is the intrigue of this character? Will he try to kill Margot?
VILLIAN: Walt Milhouse
What is the mystery of this character? Why is he going to such lengths to make the deal between his company and Margots?
What is the suspense of this character? He is a sly narcissist scheming Percy, his boss, and Margot.
What is the intrigue of this character? Will he get away with it and win the day, destroying Percy and Margot as he goes?
What is the intrigue of this character? Will he get away with it and win the day, destroying Percy and Margot as he goes?
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Characters and the World – Friends in High Places
“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.
An outline is essential prior to writing.
(Note: the assignment I previously edited down to simple statements did “not” post in the forum and I’ve had no response back concerning this and cannot spend another couple of hours detailing the specific characters “again”, so here is the original notes) Customer service has not responded to my numerous inquiries concerning the program, FYI)
Tell us the Intriguing World you have selected for this story. The CONCEPT in this science fiction thriller is that of the paralleling of two worlds simultaneously in which a murderous crime must be solved ahead of it occurring so that it can be averted. It is an envisioned future strangulation death of our hero’s mother-in-law by an unknown maniacal serial killer, prophetically witnessed by senior pre-med psychology major college student, the hero. It is based on true certain characters and events, autobiographically having transpired in Warren Goldstein’s life, now presented as a sci-fi thriller by this author, a now well-documented clairvoyant as well.
Warren, for the first time, by discovering his so-called gift of prophesies at 21, he must intervene “somehow”, simultaneously acting in both of these two worlds to curtail the fulfillment of his vision of this maniac killer’s soon to become seventh victim.The two worlds in which Warren must accomplish this, first understood but to be easily recognizable as the known physical world, referred to as the “local universe”. Traditionally, this can only adhere to the auspices of both Isaac Newton’s physics as he was the culminating figure of the Scientific revolution of the 17<sup>th</sup> century, predominantly followed strategically by Albert Einstein’s 20<sup>th</sup> century innovation since defined in his lifetime. This was by his theoretically and proven in his day accepted e=mc<sup>2</sup>; energy, mass, and time with a strict unbendable “relevancy” between these three known accepted factors to exist; time and the circumvention of it however is our most intriguing variable for our story’s focus.
Together these two academicians’ forefathers’
perspectives are necessary to explain and portend all physical existence, though
only stepping through conscious acceptance of a past, the present,
and that of the future, that is,
until now in this innovative cutting edge thriller. We conceptually engage
yet another new conflict hidden from our understanding but to be dramatically
unmasked
playing between these two worlds, the physically undetectable and
immeasurable “non-local universe”, harboring
the “collective unconscious”, theorized to exist by Carl Jung, the
renowned “father of psychology”. This
theorized realm contains the metaphysical existing memories of events past, present, and those not having occurred yet in our future?
If this being the case, according to the tenants of
quantum physics, our professor theorizes and believes his goal to be able
to enter the realm of the collective conscious by using a clairvoyant
subject having access to this theorized realm for his experiment in order
to prove his theory access to this non-local realm existing without “mass” as in Newton’s and
Einstein’s “only” Physical
universe, compared to the
theorized “nonlocal universe” that
realm which would be then be devoid of and without dependence on any of
the three elements of Einstein’s e=mc<sup>2, </sup>particularly that of “time”, the “c<sup>2</sup>” can our hero, the clairvoyant subject, under
the use of “retro-intention” hypnosis
be able to actually alter or eliminate those causes existing yet in the
future because of his own actions to intervene in his clairvoyantly prophetic
vision of his mother-in-law’s murder by the villain, the Socialite
Strangler?We portend a new concept proposed in our story by researcher and theorist Dr. Gary Keller, our hero’s college professor and a quantum physics oriented paranormal psychologist and most imperative to dramatically propel our story, acting as the agent of change in the life of our hero. Dr. Keller terms this new esoteric dimension he investigated uniquely as the “memory of the future”. This is our unique hook to our concept in entering the most electrifying world theorized by him as already existing outside of the “local universe’s” time factor of our current physical world. This world is battling up against the conscious easily accessible present “local universe” world of physical reality we’ve been conditioned only but to accept.
The Big Mystery, Intrigue, and Suspense of the story.
Big
Mystery: What
is the main mystery of this
story that will keep us wondering throughout the story? It is, “Can “causes” for physical events actually
exist in the “future” for events
that took place already from our past
or currently exist now in the present?”
More so, can these causative events or circumstances be altered or eliminated
in order to change what religions and ancient cultures for centuries have looked
upon as inalienable fates of individuals? These unique mysteries are the intriguing
hook to this film, yet to our knowledge, have these been actually answered
satisfactorily by any of the great science fiction writers per se. Our
concept picks up where they have might have left off, such as Arthur C.
Clark, Robert Heinlein, H.G. Wells, or especially the twentieth’s
century’s most revered great physicist theorist Albert Einstein.
Ironically, however, intriguingly, he perhaps only could refer to these
non-material interactions within our physical world by such witnessed phenomena
as “spooky actions at a distance”.Intrigue:
There is constant challenging intrigue
as to resolving our mystery
as to an at-large serial killer, while relying on to consequentially reconcile,
does this mean “cause” necessarily “always” has to precede
“effect”? Or is it that, mirroring
our autobiographical author’s own theory resulting from his first-hand
experiences as a clairvoyant, a hypnotherapist, and a trained scientific
researcher, as portrayed through Dr. Gary Keller and as to this theory that
might these story goals all be reached?The clock is ticking while Warren must depend upon not the police, which
dismay psychic knowledge to make them take Warren’s vision seriously, but
reliance is rather upon his college quantum physics based paranormal
psychologist researcher and as well Warren’s professor in his but last
college elective course requirement prior to graduation before
anticipating entering medical school.Dr. Keller is the key to the resolve of the story’s mystery, while
attempting to help Warren in solving a serial killer theme. His motivation
is ultimately to be able to prove his own theory to be published now discovering
Warren to become his research subject in order to prove that “causes” actually can exist in the future for those events as well that
have already transpired both from
our past and now in our present.Big
Intrigue: What is the covert,
clandestine, underhanded part that will live under the surface for most of
the movie? Can Warren with the use of Dr.
Keller’s cutting edge hypnosis technique called retro-intention be able to allow Warren to enter the collective unconscious and
institute the change of memories of the future which have yet to take
place but need to be selectively altered unknowingly to both the killer
and his mother-in-law? In doing so, can
and how might our hero actually
be able to alter or totally eliminate those “causes” theorized to be residing in the future but are to
become the leading events hidden from our present world consciousness so
as Warren will be able to change the outcome of certain strategic and
those unwanted forthcoming future events.
Characters’
Intrigue: To prove Dr. Keller’s theory to
get published is a necessary and intriguing paralleling side line which complements
and perpetuates our on the edge of your seat suspense life and death
situation in our storyline in order for the discovery of the identity of
the serial killer, not necessarily to apprehend him without the police
however. This turns out surprisingly different to enhance the suspense of the story.
To assist our hero, Dr. Keller uses a “cutting edge” newly developed
hypnosis innovation of his, retro-intention technique application, in
order to reach what are also newly termed by the author as “future memories”. This is somewhat of a conundrum for our
intellect but necessary to establish the intrigue of the science fiction genre’s
expectations. Though it is based upon real documented events and occurrences
by the author, though names having to have been fictionalized so not to
compromise the real life family relationships remaining to an actual
killer in real life and who was never apprehended, or identified while he
was alive then.
This intrigue strategically is implanted beginning right
from scene one, building from
one prophetic vision coming to pass to the next, leaving but only the sequence
of visions related to the murder of his soon to become mother-in-law to remain
yet to be fulfilled. Warren must find a way to intervene, save her life,
and change her fate but without his soon to become wife Jodi having shared
that he’s using his recently discovered apparent clairvoyant prophetic gift
which frightens her and threatens her to want to go through in their
upcoming marriage.
Can Warren go against the accepted scientific status
quo of the intelligentsia which does not want to step beyond the “what if” of science, the story’s continually
intriguing challenge for the climactic resolve to this mystery. It will be by our
hero through the help of his agent
of change in his life at this time regarding his newly discovered rare
and proven to be perfectly accurate prophetic psychic gift. Can his
college parapsychology professor and researcher, under his direction,
using retro-intention, how might Warren have access to enter this “collective unconscious” in order to
solve the structural mystery and
to continue the on the edge of your seat pending resolve for Warren’s
quest to be able to intercede in the serial killer murder of his
mother-in-law. Warren must put into practice his own efforts to thwart
this catastrophe by attempting to alter and eliminate the causes leading
up to her death. However it appears only he and his professor realize that
at this time these causes only exist
as “future memories” titrated
from Warren’s prophetic visions.
Warren’s mystery is to solve Who is the serial killer
Big Suspense:
What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate
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Eric Humble’s World and Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is: that by designing the characters and world to have an inherent M.I.S., I can focus the story so that it naturally evolves in thriller territory. This is another aspect of thriller writing that often vexes me, because I use the standard techniques to develop characters, world, motivations, etc. and I often find myself in “drama” situations which I then have to contort to meet the thriller mold. It always ends up overcomplicating the plot and stretching situations beyond credibility. This is already shaping up to be a more concise, cleaner plot.
CONCEPT: A chef catering the G7 summit discovers someone is plotting to poison the President at dessert and has five courses to stop it from happening… using only the food he creates.
Big Mystery: Who is the assassin and how is planning to kill the President?
Big Intrigue: Leiber wants to poison the President in order to shift the balance of power to a cabal of NATO leaders when the peace talks fail and the U.S. is out as a superpower.
Big Suspense: Will Leiber kill Raf? Will he kill the President?
INTRIGUING WORLD: The kitchen preparing the meal at the G7 Summit, around which NATO leaders will broker peace between Russia and the European country it has invaded.
HERO: Raf
Mystery: Who is the assassin and how is the assassin going to kill the
President?
Intrigue: Uses the food he prepares to correspond with the World Leaders
upstairs at the Summit… cooks hidden meanings into the meals.
Suspense: Will he stop the assassination in time?
VILLAIN: Leiber
Mystery: Why is he plotting to assassinate the President just as
peace is finally about to be brokered?
Intrigue: He works for a cabal of NATO leaders bucking their own policies to try
and strengthen the smaller countries once the US is out of the way as a
superpower.
Suspense: Will he Leiber succeed and make the minority cabal the greatest
superpower the world never knew was in its midst?
RED HERRING: Salvatore
Mystery: Why is Salvatore trying to sabotage the meal?
Intrigue: He is a sleeper agent for one of the smaller NATO countries, which is
unhappy that peace will come at the cost of it seceding a small tract of
land to Russia, despite the US President and NATO leaders’s
endorsement of this concession.
Suspense: Will he ruin the peace deal before it’s signed?
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What I learned doing this assignment is if I follow the plan/setting up and paying off the sequences of character development and layering the M.I.S. one step at a time, I will have a serious, exciting thriller.
Las Vegas Casino life: Hero – Joe Moran, Villain – Maxim Andropovitch, Red Herring – John Benedetti
Hero: Casino owner, Joe Moran
Mystery of character is that amiable Joe knows lots of people from various backgrounds including the Chicago mob, gov’t officials, shaky former friends, very rich neighbors etc.
Intrigue of character is Joe’s temper, persistence and love of family above all else, including his casino business, friends, his own high morality or church rules.
Suspense of character is that Joe is unpredictable, volatile, stubborn and determined so he never gives up, gives in and is not for sale.
Villain: Old war buddy and former enemy, Maxim Andropovitch
Mystery of character is that no one knows he is in Vegas along with his team of mercenaries.
Intrigue of character is that Joe thinks Maxim is dead, plus doesn’t know that his newly hired attorney is Maxim’s son, Nikolai working against him and knowing Joe’s every move.
Suspense of Character is that He’s covert/under the radar and can arrange kidnappings, havoc, destruction, making it appear that it’s someone local.
Red Herring: John Benedetti, Joe’s long-time friend, union leader.
Mystery of character is that Joe believes John is his friend, who will look out for him and his family’s casino business in a fair and honest way.
Intrigue of character is that John is whipped – his young, beautiful 2nd wife spends money like a drunken sailor, so John is always in need and short on cash.
Suspense of character is John going to sell out his friend, Joe? Will he calm the union troublemakers threatening Joe’s casino and family.
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Daniel Turner’s World and Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is?
What is becoming quite apparent is that there is almost a basic recipe to making a thriller, that there are always certain elements needed, regardless of the story that need to be in place to make the story actually thrilling.
1. CONCEPT: Peter Franco, the preacher turned policeman is on the trail of a killer, whose killing prostitutes and other criminals.
Big Mystery – Will Peter catch the killer, and discover who he or they are? And was he really sent by God to catch bad guys?
Big Intrigue: – Peter discovers that the killer may have been a member of his former congregation and also discovers a secret group with the intent of cleansing the world, are they responsible for the murders.
Big Suspense – Will the killer or the group deal with Peter because he’s trying to thwart their mission?
2. The World: The hidden world of a religious sect who has the belief that they are here to cleanse the world of sin and sinners and are currently operating in the seedy parts of a large American city.
3. Characters:
HERO: Peter Franco
Mystery: Will he find the killers? And who are they?
Intrigue: The Atonement Sect has the same overall goal as Peter, their method is
just more extreme. Will that hinder, or compromise his ability to bring
them to justice?
Suspense: Will the Sect make Peter atone for being an apostate, one who has
renounced his belief and faith? Will they sacrifice him to save his soul?
VILLIAN: Jericho Young – Leader of the Atonement sect.
Mystery: When given serious thought, is he really wrong or crazy for what he’s
trying to accomplish?
Intrigue: How many followers and how powerful is the
group that he leads?
Suspense: Who will be sacrificed as he moves towards his goal?
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Jeff Hall’s World and Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is that the setting needs to be a reinforce the ‘mood’ of your story.
1. Remind us of your CONCEPT and the Big M.I.S. of your story.
A disgraced deputy in a small western town discovers innocent people are being blamed for an onslaught of mysterious slaughters. Can he stop the slayings and survive being hung for the very murders he attempting to stop?
Big Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us wondering throughout the story? Why are these people being murdered… will the people keep punishing innocent people?
Big Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded part that will live under the surface for most of the movie?
Big Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue to escalate throughout the script? He is chasing a serial murderer that can kill him at any time. He is a new suspicious person in a town where murders have just happened.
2. Tell us the Intriguing World you have selected for this story.
A town in the wild west is recently blessed with being added to the train route…but the train doesn’t always bring blessing.
3. With your top 2 or 3 characters, tell us the role they play and then answer these three questions:
Benjamin
A. What is the mystery of this character? He was disgraced by his father.
B. What is the suspense of this character? He is chasing a murderer that he does not know what he looks like.
C. What is the intrigue of this character? Will he be killed before finding the murderer? Can he find the murderer.
The Tall Man
A. What is the mystery of this character? Who is he?… is he real or a ghost?
B. What is the suspense of this character? When will he strike next?
C. What is the intrigue of this character? Why is he killing?
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Mona Miller’s World and Characters.
ASSIGNMENT
What I learned doing this assignment is – I am not good at this. I’m particularly confused about the “intrigue”
concept and I need help understanding it.
This is hard (but fun).1. Remind us of your CONCEPT and the Big M.I.S. of your story.
“Asuncion.” Expert mountain climber but novice CIA agent Brett Dean (20s) is assigned to go on a dangerous mountain climbing expedition in South America. These treks, which attract wealthy, mountain-climbing tourists, may be used to supply a hidden terrorist training camp with weapons and other materiél. Brett is to locate the camp and to assassinate the leader, assumed to be at the camp. Nobody is sure who the leader is, but he has inflicted terrible casualties on his targets. Unbeknownst to Brett, the terrorist leader is an urbane, English-educated Pakistani, Ali Patel, early 40s, who is actually on the climb with him. Ali is surrounded by wealthy tourists (some of whom may work for him), a lackey or two, and genuine strangers who pay to go on the expedition.
Big
Mystery: What is the main mystery of your story that will keep us
wondering throughout the story? Will Ali realize who Brett is and cause
his death? If pushed, will Ali
cause the death of the innocent tourists on the trek? Will Brett realize who Ali is – and if so,
how will he get to the camp unscathed and accomplish his mission? How will Brett protect the innocent
fellow climbers – and which of them are innocent? To whom is Dr. Liza Graves, the expedition
doctor and expert climber, with whom Ali Patel seems smitten, actually
loyal?
Big
Intrigue: What is the covert, clandestine, underhanded part that
will live under the surface for most of the movie? Ali Patel’s true identity;
Ali’s relationship with Dr. Liza, what is all this stuff they’re bringing
up the mountain for the villagers? When people die on the climb, is it an
accident? Or planned? And if planned, by whom?
Big
Suspense: What is the main danger to your Hero that will continue
to escalate throughout the script? Just surviving the climb is hard –
there is an early accident leading to the death of one climber. To ascend, each climber must depend on
the others. They are connected by
ropes and absolutely need to trust each other in climbing. There are locations where nobody could
come by helicopter to med-evacuate them.
The air gets thinner and thinner, and the conditions more dangerous
and remote (snow storms, avalanches, strong winds, equipment losses and
failures, etc.) as they continue to
climb.2. Tell us the Intriguing World you have selected for this story. Dangerous mountain climbing in a remote area. Fantastic scenery; top of the world. A tiny mistake can lead to death.
3. With your top 2 or 3 characters, tell us the role they play and then answer these three questions: Ali Patel, terrorist leader, usually doesn’t get his hands dirty, and is an incredibly wealthy financier, with millions from dealing in illegal weapons and other criminal activities. He likes climbing and looks forward to a “fun” but challenging trek. The mystery: why did he make this particular trek? What does he want from Dr. Liza Graves? What does he think of Brett? What will he do to Brett if he finds out who he is? Will he be willing to take the lives of the innocent climbers to protect his (Ali’s) identity?
Brett Dean is an expert climber, chosen because of that expertise by his relatively new CIA employers. He is not an experienced operative, and is young. How will a young, inexperienced agent respond in these challenging circumstances? Will he survive the dangerous climb? Brett’s intrigue – not sure. [I’m having trouble with that category. What does “intrigue” of a character mean?] Bret is very ambitious? Determined to move up in his position at the CIA? Wants to be taken more seriously? Bret has other ideas for how this mission should be accomplished, that his bosses don’t share? Brett has a weakness of going off half-cocked, rather than planning everything through?
Dr. Liza Graves is a medical resident, deep in debt, who grew up in Colorado and has always loved mountain climbing. She is very idealistic and bright. She has been told that this expensive trek, for which she’s getting paid since she signed on to be medical officer, will bring food and medical supplies to poor indigenous people in the mountains. This sounds like heaven to her. Unbeknownst to everyone else, she’s fluent in Arabic. Her mystery: to whom will she be loyal? Suspense – like the others, will she survive the climb? Upon whom can she depend? Will she trust Brett? Intrigue: Dr. Liza Graves knows Arabic. She uncovers what’s going on, when others don’t realize she knows. What will she do with her information? Whom will she trust and whom will she betray?
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Alia Munn’s world and characters!
What I learned from this assignment – by using the Big MIS for each of my main characters, I can see where the patterns emerge in each of them in order to connect them to the larger theme, which is layered with intrigue and suspense.
The Remembering
CONCEPT : A roadmap of elemental signs and clues reveal multiple timelines being played out for our key characters. The discovery is a journey to them remembering who they are on a soul level, how they are ultimately connected, and what purpose they are serving on Earth.
WORLD: Multi-dimensional reality – traversing across timelines and in and out of hidden realms, and ancient and future civilizations.
Big Mystery: Five Main Characters driven to discover multi-dimensional reality through the elements of earth, air, water, fire and ether, against all odds of forces working against memory and revelations.
Big Intrigue: Hidden forces that take on a multitude of guises to distort, distract, and invert perceptual reality for five main characters: Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Ether
Big Suspense: seen and unseen forces that behave as a hyper-dimensional vampiric entity that the elemental characters must overcome.
HERO: What makes our hero at first unwitting or unknowing, but is resourceful enough to become a worthy adversary and ultimately to defeat the villain?
Joan (one of five main characters) discovers she is being followed and does not know who it is or why. She dreams of a luminous child, who witnesses horrible events. Joan has visions of her and thinks at first it is this mysterious child following her in physical life. But the child is trying to inform her of the government agents and their goal to murder her and steal her soul. When Joan is able to communicate directly with the child on the astral plane, she realizes that the child is not only her protector, but is a version of herself that had split off at the age of 3 during a brutal/ traumatic event. The child exists outside of time and space, and has the ability to travel in a variety of realms, perceiving all. When Joan is able to heed the advice of the child, who lives among the un-dead, she becomes a worthy adversary to defeat the villain.
VILLAIN: What makes our villain as interesting, powerful, and as dangerous as possible for the hero?
The Villain is a multitude of agents that are black magicians invested in taking Joan out, and are also able to traverse multiple realms, but in addition to that, they have the ability to manifest physically in this realm and appear as normal people – a power that the child does not have. The child must activate Joan’s consciousness in order to defeat the villain in this realm. But the agents have the child, who is the key to revelation, trapped in a realm dedicated to containing and controlling her.
RED HERRING: Who is the person who looks guilty that we focus our investigation on, but we find out that their “guilt” or scheme was about another issue, not this one?
The landlords who live next door manipulate and gas-light Joan in this realm, are guilty of their bizarre and petty actions – entering her home and stealing jewelry and other items, (related to her ability to remember what happened to her) having sex in her living room while she is sleeping in the next room, and so on, but their strings are being pulled by a far greater force in the attempt to kill Joan and steal her soul.
What
is the mystery of this character?<div>Joan: why is she being followed and manipulated – what happened to her as a child?
Agents: Why are they so hell bent on pursuing Joan at all costs?
Landlords: Who put them up to luring and manipulating Joan?
What
is the intrigue of this character?</div><div>Joan: Her ability to tune into signs, symbols and extra-sensory perception.
Agents: Their ability to traverse across timelines and appear as “normal” people interacting with Joan
Landlords: Their relentless covert activities that are often bizarre and seemingly meaningless
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is the suspense of this character?Joan: Will she overcome the agents, which will lead to a greater understanding of who she is and where she came from?
Agents: If their ultimate goal is realized, then what happens to them and why?
Landlords: How are they mind-controlled and will their egregious behavior be revealed and condemned in court by Joan?
All five characters are mapped using the layering of Big MIS as a way to identify how they are all ultimately connected in this and other realms.
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Mona Miller – Asuncion [mountain climbing set] (Second time – I don’t know why it thinks I haven’t done this yet!)
I learned doing this assignment that it is very hard to see the simplest, essential pieces and not be distracted. (At least for me.)
Concept: a trek of well-heeled “tourists” takes on a difficult mountain climbing expedition in South America. Sprinkled in among these tourists are (1) Brett Dean (20s), novice CIA agent who’s a great mountain climber; (2) terrorist leader Ali Patel, an urbane, British-educated Pakistani (40s) who’s an arms dealer, and (3) a young, idealistic doctor, deep in debt, Dr. Liza Graves (early 30s), who’s been hired by Patel for the climb. Dean is supposed to find the terrorist training camp high up in the mountains that these treks are suspected to have been supplying. Once he’s located the camp, he is to assassinate the leader, and return.
Big
Mystery: Will
Brett figure out that his target is on the trek with him? Will Ali Patel realize that Brett Dean
is a CIA agent? If Brett kills
Patel, how will he locate the terrorist training camp? Who else on this trek will then punish
Brett? What is being hauled up to the supposed poor villagers they are
helping? <div>Big
Intrigue: Who
will betray whom? Will Brett’s
feelings for Dr. Liza cloud his judgment? Are the accidents along the way actually planned to get some of the climbers out of the picture? Who is sabotaging the equipment/supplies?Big
Suspense: Everyone
faces the extreme dangers of this climb.
They must rely on each other to make the climb.2. Intriguing World: Extreme mountain climbing in remote area.
3. With your top 2 or 3 characters, tell us the role they play and then answer these three questions:
Brett Dean – novice CIA agent selected because of his climbing expertise.
A. What is the mystery of this
character? – Will he figure out who his enemies are? Will he stick to the plan he’s been
given, which no longer fits, since he thinks Ali Patel is the leader and
he’s there on the trek.
B. What is the suspense of this
character? Will he survive? Will he figure out who’s who?
C. What is the intrigue of this
character? Will he be hot-headed or cool in judgment? How will his feelings for Dr. Liza
affect him? Will he act to save the
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Subject line: Julio Tumbaco’s World and Characters!
What I learned doing this assignment is to find/create strong characters (engaging/addicting) to drive the story & create maximum interest ending (you can’t wait to the end).
CONCEPT and the Big M.I.S. of “NOE”: what happens when a spirit/ghost cannot rest and in the quest of finding peace, finds love with a human who’s in love with the ghost’s killer.
BIG Mystery: The main mystery of “NOE” that will keep us wondering throughout the story is how afterlife and life can coexist and impact the action.
BIG Intrigue: The covert, clandestine, underhanded plot that lives under the surface for most of the movie is the connection of the 3 main characters and how they interconnect.
BIG Suspense: The main danger to your Owen that will continue to escalate throughout the script is the choice of life/contentment vs. death/love
The Intriguing World I selected for this story: The intertwine of the supernatural with reality.
3. My top 3 characters, roles they play are Owen (protagonist), Nick (antagonist) and Ella (antagonist).
A. What is the MIS of Owen? Owen’s sexuality (M), past (I) & whom does he truly love (S)
B. What is the MIS of Nick? Nick’s death (M), goal (I) & can he deliver happily ever after (S)
C. What the MIS of Ella? Ella’s desires (M), motives (I) & can she deliver happily ever after (S)
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