[Kimberli Curtis]

Kimberli’s Character Profile Part 2

What I learned doing this assignment: My protagonist is angry.

Protagonist
What draws us to this character?: She tends to her husband’s demands without any regards to herself
Traits: Loving, kind, tired, depressed, angry
Subtext: She smiles with every request
Flaw: Doesn’t say no
Values: Standing by your commitments. Love.
Irony: Commitment to her marriage and selfcare for herself
What makes this the right character for this role?: She is a wife who grew up in a time where you stand by your mind without regard for your well being. It’s about appearances.

Antagonist
What draws us to this character?: His anger and treatment of his wife
Traits: Anger, scared, weak
Subtext: Yells out all of his requests and ignores Lorraine when it’s not about him
Values: Till death do us part
Irony: Loves his wife, but is scared and doesn’t know how to show it
What make this the right character for this role?: He is dealing with a mental decline. He knows it and can’t do anything to stop it.

[Kimberli Curtis]

What I learned: I realized that I never thought of the antagonist having any emotions. My focus was always on the protagonist.

Lorraine Harrison
Role in the Story: Protagonist/Victim
Age Range & Description: Late 60s, committed wife of 47 years, always helping everyone
Genre: Drama
Internal Journey: From helping others to giving herself selfcare
External Journey: From dropping everything to give aid to her husband to giving herself some time
Motivation: To stay married or divorced
Wound: Her parents stayed in a loveless marriage
Mission/Agenda: To leave
Secret: She feels she’s nobody if she goes through a divorce
What makes them special?: She believes in commitment and love

Sam Harrison
Role in the Story: Antagonist/Predator
Age Range & Description: Late 60s, husband, dealing with a mental decline
Genre: Drama
Internal Journey: From being oblivious to his wife needs to realizing the hurt he has caused
External Journey: From being verbal abusive to being sedate
Wound: His parents couldn’t stand each other
Mission: Stay married
Secret: He doesn’t want to be alone
What makes them special?: He’s afraid of change

Other Characters
Minor: Daughter

[Kimberli Curtis]

What I learned from this assignment: Writing the external journey definitely helps to solidify the internal journey. When I wrote the old and new ways, I started to get more detail of who my character is.

Hero: Lorraine

Internal Journey: scared to move on, afraid of making a bad decision

External Journey: committed to self care, not afraid to do what’s right for her, brave to break old ways of thinking.

Old Ways: timid, scared, unable to speak for herself

New Ways: strength, brave, ready to be present in the world.

[Kimberli Curtis]

My name is Kimberli Curtis

I have written 1 script.

I have a lot of story ideas and hope that this class will give me the foundations to write them all.

I feverishly adore British mystery (i.e. Agatha Christie mysteries, Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, etc.

[Kimberli Curtis]

Kimberli Curtis

I agree to the terms of this release form.

GROUP RELEASE FORM

As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.

2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.

I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.

4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.

5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.

6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.

[Kimberli Curtis]

Kimberli Curtis

I have written 1 short.

I hope to learn techniques to write the 2 thriller ideas that have been running in my head successfully.

I can wiggle my ears.

[Kimberli Curtis]

The Woman in the Window Thriller Conventions

Big Mystery:

Big Intrigue: The villian is making it seem that Anna Fox has big mental problems/issues and all she sees are hallucinations.

Big Suspense: Anna keeps hearing noises of someone else in her home besides her renter. Then she receives an image of her sleeping. Will she be killed by the villian.

The movie had me engaged from the beginning. I thought I knew who the killer was or should I say lead to believe who it was. That was until Alistar Russell said something to the affect of “you don’t understand what’s going on. I realized that it wasn’t him, but his son. But realizing that, still didn’t spoil it for me. I wanted to see how the film would end.

Normally, I get so engulfed in the movie not realizing who the murderer is til the end of the film. This made me more keenly aware of the surroundings in the dialogue.

[Kimberli Curtis]

Kimberli Curtis

I agree to the terms of this release form.

GROUP RELEASE FORM

As a member of this group, I agree to the following:

1. That I will keep the processes, strategies, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class confidential, and that I will NOT share any of this program either privately, with a group, posting online, writing articles, through video or computer programming, or in any other way that would make those processes, teleconferences, communications, lessons, and models of the class available to anyone who is not a member of this class.

2. That each writer’s work here is copyrighted and that writer is the sole owner of that work. That includes this program which is copyrighted by Hal Croasmun. I acknowledge that submission of an idea to this group constitutes a claim of and the recognition of ownership of that idea.

I will keep the other writer’s ideas and writing confidential and will not share this information with anyone without the express written permission of the writer/owner. I will not market or even discuss this information with anyone outside this group.

3. I also understand that many stories and ideas are similar and/or have common themes and from time to time, two or more people can independently and simultaneously generate the same concept or movie idea.

4. If I have an idea that is the same as or very similar to another group member’s idea, I’ll immediately contact Hal and present proof that I had this idea prior to the beginning of the class. If Hal deems them to be the same idea or close enough to cause harm to either party, he’ll request both parties to present another concept for the class.

5. If you don’t present proof to Hal that you have the same idea as another person, you agree that all ideas presented to this group are the sole ownership of the person who presented them and you will not write or market another group member’s ideas.

6. Finally, I agree not to bring suit against anyone in this group for any reason, unless they use a substantial portion of my copyrighted work in a manner that is public and/or that prevents me from marketing my script by shopping it to production companies, agents, managers, actors, networks, studios or any other entertainment industry organizations or people.

This completes the Group Release Form for the class.