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DAY 6 – TRANSFORMATIONAL EVENTS

OLD WAYS

Nick started the movie living in his Old Ways.

Womanizer
who treats women badly and thinks it’s okay.
Makes
offensive-message T-shirts.
Unwilling
to make himself susceptible to rejection
Afraid
of being unlovable
Confrontational
in defending his behavior
Prince-Charming
hater

NEW WAYS

In the end, Nick defends and saves Prince Charming.

Embraces
the concept of Prince Charming.
Fights
to have Prince Charming live on.
Believes
he is a good man and okay if he is rejected.
Makes
positive-message T-shirts. Reads fairy tales to girls.
Kind.
Treats
women well.</div><div>

What needs to happen to Nick for him to change?

He
is kicked off dating apps.
He
fails to change Prince Charming who goodheartedly holds him no grudge.
He
seeks HCA to rewrite. HCA plays him and turns him in to Prince Charming
who feels sad for Nick. Nick has had people be mad at him but never feel sad
for him. This bothers him. PC to Nick: What is it going to take for you to
stop hurting yourself?
He
seduces Charmed Princess and feels awful about it. He also disappoints
Lena. This hurst him more than anything ever has. Prince Charming is very
happy about it: Nick is starting to get out of his own way.
Finds
out Charmed Princess is Baddermunch’s daughter. If he marries her, he’ll
control Fairyland and can have any woman he wants. For that, he must agree
to help take down Prince Charming.
Gets
a glimpse of what that life would be like. Sees himself in the future with
Lena. He is an a-hole and she not only takes it but thinks he’s the cat’s
meow.
Dilemma:
does he sacrifice Prince Charming and get the life he previously wanted or
save Prince Charming and have him keep being the gold standard for women?
Fights
Baddermunch, saves Prince Charming and wins.
He
confesses his love to Lena and his desire to be a good man (because it
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FIRST DRAFT OF SEQUENCE OF EVENTS:

1- Lena is out with girlfriends. They, including Lena, marvel at Lena’s minuscule engagement ring and describe Lena’s fiancé, Nick, as a real Prince Charming. Lena agrees.

2- Nick shows up and acts like a complete a-hole. Everyone, including Lena, swoon.

3- A week ago: At a bar, Nick acts like an a-hole as he tries to pick up Lena. Several women at a bar recognize Nick as the worst date they ever had. Lena leads the charge to have him be thrown off every dating app. Nick is furious with Lena.

4- At the bookstore where she works, Lena is about to read a fairy tale to little girls. Nick, there to try and get Lena to undo his being thrown off dating apps, tries to pry the fairy tale book out of Lena’s hands.

5- Nick and Lena find themselves in Fairyland.

6- At first, Nick is mad and thinks that he was pranked. He soon realizes that he is indeed in Fairyland. He sees this as his opportunity to do away with the concept of Prince Charming once and for all whereas Lena sees this as her chance to meet the real Prince Charming.

7- They run into a druid who is looking for people who come from a different place. Druids are allowed to capture and boiled down to their essence to help with creating a time-travel potion. Nick and Lena are shown vials with the dates of what period they came from.

8- The druid takes Nick and Lena to Prince Charming where Nick will make a portrait of him, his official painter turned out to be an impostor.

9- Nick tricks Prince Charming into acting like a cad using an absurd reason. Lena offers herself to Prince Charming as the girl he can be nasty with. Nick calls Lena on her double standard.

10- It’s a Prince Charming doppelganger who acts nasty. Prince Charming used him to act as him. When Lena finds out, very disappointed, Prince Charming explains that he cannot act anything but. Lena is even more smitten with prince Charming.

11- Thanks to one of the druid’s contraptions that allows him to see in different dimensions and times, Nick realizes that Prince Charming tricked him. Nick takes the contraption with him. Prince Charming good-naturedly forgives Nick, and tells him he can’t change because he was written that way.

12- Nick tells PC he wants to meet HCA under a false pretext. Lena shares her suspicions with PC and bad mouths Nick and laments how she can’t find a man that works for her.

13- PC sends Nick on a harrowing journey and suggests that Lena accompany him to get a good knowledge of the land inferring that a princess of the land should know her kingdom and meet her people. Nick is annoyed at the way Lena acts with Prince Charming who is very charming with Lena. Lena thinks that PC intends to make her his Princess.

14- Nick and Lena embark on a journey to find Hans Christian Anderson. Nick intends to have him rewrite Prince Charming so he is a cad like him. Lena acts like she is the future Princess. Nick makes fun of her.

15- HCA rewrites PC to look like himself. Nick is furious at him.

16- Nick finds out that Prince Charming knew all the time that Nick and Lena came from the future. They get people like him on a regular basis who want to change this and that. It was all in good fun, and he gives a big banquet in Nick’s honor to apologize for playing him. Nick starts looking at Prince Charming differently and with respect. But it bothers him even more that Lena’s infatuation with Prince Charming is getting worse. (Introduce a ticking time bomb).

17- Charmed Princess returns from a visit to her parents. Lena is heartbroken; PC never intended for her to be the Princess but the Princess in waiting. Lena read into his words what she wanted to. Her sadness affects Nick.

18- Nick seduces Charmed Princess, and he makes sure they are found out.

19- Prince Charming’s loyalists urge him to have Nick and Charmed Princess arrested and killed. Prince Charming refuses. He must have failed Charmed Princess somehow for her to be with another man. Some people call Prince Charming an impostor or Charmed Princess would not have strayed. Prince Charming leaves the kingdom. There is no more Prince Charming. Nick wonders how he could have so easily seduced Charmed Princess. He gets suspicious of her.

20- Women address him as Prince Charming and throw themselves at him. Nick is no longer interested and tries to discourage them. The meaner he is, the more they like it. Nick gets a chance to see the future: it’s the opening scene where Lena swoons over caddy Nick. He decides he must bring Prince Charming back so things revert to what they were.

21- Pretty soon, Fairyland turns into an awful place where people are rude to each other. Romance is dead. Love is despised. It’s the antithesis of what it once was.

22- He convinces Lena, and a wizard they had encountered earlier, to help him find Prince Charming.

23- Nick arrives upon Baddermunch, Prince Charming’s nemesis and Charmed Princess’s father, having just captured Prince Charming, and had his arms cut off so he can’t fight. Baddermunch has always wanted to take over Fairyland because he hates the good feeling and happiness of the place. He thanks Nick for having made that possible. Nick is horrified and feels awful. He apologizes to Prince Charming who forgives him. That Nick feels bad is good enough for Prince Charming. Nick can’t believe how nice Prince Charming is. He confesses to Lena that he was wrong all along.

24- Baddermunch announces that he’s going to be crowned King Charming.

25- Nick tries to get HCA to set things right, write Baddermunch out of the fairy tale. HCA tries as he may, but Baddermunch always ends up on top. How can that be? The only explanation is that Nick’s determination to do away with Prince Charming prevailed. Nick is furious. How can bad prevails when good is so much better?

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[Ourdia Hodge]

DAY 5 4 act transformational structure

What I learned ding this exercise: It’s really easy to get bogged down with details. It’s really best to leave them for later and focus on the core of the story.

1. List Concept, Main Conflict, Old Ways, and New Ways

Concept

Frustrated with women’s obsession with Prince Charming, a cad travels to Fairyland to destroy the famed character but must hide his agenda from the Prince Charming-crazy woman he loves.

Main
Conflict

Nick is branded the Anti Prince Charming by Lena, a woman he tried to pick up at the bar. Lena leads the charge to have Nick kicked off every dating apps.

Nick wishes Prince Charming was a cad like him.

He gets his chance to change Prince Charming when he wakes up in Fairyland. However, Lena is right with him, and will do everything to thwart his plan.

Nick’s OLD Ways:

1. Old identity: creates T-shirts with offensive/mean messages

2. arrogant womanizer who treats women like shit

3. Hates the concept of Prince Charming

Nick’s NEW Ways:

New
Identity: creates T-shirts with positive messages
Embraces
what Prince Charming represents
Falls
for Lena and acts Prince Charmingly/romantic

2. Act 1: Set up and see the old ways

Opening: Lena is out with girlfriends. They, including Lena, marvel at Lena’s minuscule engagement ring and describe Lena’s fiancé, Nick, as a real Prince Charming. Lena agrees.

Nick shows up and acts like a complete a-hole. Everyone, including Lena, swoon.

Inciting Incident: Under a deadline of death, Tony is required to create a weapon for the terrorists, but instead, he creates a suit that can withstand bullets.

At a bar, Nick tries to pick up Lena using a very offensive approach. Several women at a bar recognize Nick as the worst date they ever had, describe his awful behavior. Lena leads the charge to have him be thrown off every dating app. Nick is furious at Lena.

Turning Point: At the bookstore where she works, Lena is about to read a fairy tale to little girls, Nick tries to pry the fairy tale book out of Lena’s hands. Next, Nick and Lena find themselves in Fairyland.

3. Act 2: Challenge the Old Ways.

Reaction: At first, Nick is mad and thinks that he was pranked. He soon realizes that he is indeed in Fairyland. He sees this as his opportunity to do away with the concept of Prince Charming once and for all whereas Lena sees this as a chance to meet Prince Charming.

New plan: Nick tricks Prince Charming into acting like a cad and have Lena be a witness to it. When that fails, Nick decides to find Hans Christian Anderson and have him rewrite Prince Charming so he is a cad.

Lena gets in the way of Nick trying to subvert Prince Charming. Nick is annoyed at the way Lena acts with Prince Charming who is very charming with Lena.

Turning Point/Midpoint: Nick finds out that Prince Charming knew all the time that Nick and Lena came from the future. He let Nick have his fun with trying to change him and have him be rewritten. It was all in good fun, and he gives a big banquet in Nick’s honor to apologize for playing him. Nick starts look at Prince Charming differently and with respect. But it bothers him even more that Lena’s infatuation with Prince Charming only gets worse in his opinion.

4.
Act 3: With Midpoint change, Profound moments that give us new ways.

New plan: Nick still intends to disrepute Prince Charming. He seduces Charmed Princess, and gets her to testify that behind closed doors, Prince Charming is a monster. This saddens Lena, and shatters her belief in Prince Charming. Her sadness affects Nick. Prince Charming’s loyalist urge him to have Nick and Charmed Princess arrested and killed. Prince Charming refuses. He must have failed Charmed Princess somehow for her to say such things.

Lena gets suspicious of Charmed Princess as the latter starts acting like a like a cadette (female cad per Urban dictionary). Charmed Princess picks up men in the awful way Nick used with women. Pretty soon, Fairyland turns into an awful place where people are rude to each other. Romance is dead. Love is despised. It’s the antithesis of what it once was.

Nick gets a chance to see the future: it’s the opening scene where Lena swoons over caddy Nick.

New insights: Women throw themselves at Nick. He is no longer interested. The meaner he is, the more they like it. He decides he must bring Prince Charming back so things revert to what they were.

He convinces Lena, and a wizard they had encountered earlier, to help him find Prince Charming.

Turning Point 3: Prince Charming has been captured by Prince Charming’s nemesis, Baddermunch, who is Charmed Princess’s father and always wanted to take over Fairyland. We learn that during his capture, Prince Charming was injured.

[Ourdia Hodge]

DAY 4 – CHARACTER INTERVIEWS

What I learned doing this assignment is that when given a chance, characters truly speak openly to you and unveil their most inner thoughts. I had a lot of fun discovering unsuspected facets of my character.

It’s an invaluable exercise in that the specific questions asked are making me wonder if I have the right antagonist. In a way, it’s frustrating considering all the work I’ve already done, but it’s better I discover now that I have the wrong antagonist instead of when I have the whole first draft written.

I am still posting this assignement with the original antagonist, ans see where I go from there.

The issue for me is “do I want to write a rom-com” or a comedy with a strong romance element”?

INTERVIEW YOUR PROTAGONIST; Nick

Tell
me about yourself.

I’m an all right guy. I have a great sense of humor which I use to come up with hilarious messages for my T-shirts. Of course, some people are offended, but it’s their problem. I own a cat. I didn’t pick him. He picked me. He followed me home one day, and wouldn’t leave. What choice did I have but to keep him? Yet, the little rascal never gave me the time of day. The ungratefulness. I should turn him loose.

I am a great illustrator. I found solace in drawing and creating my own friends and worlds when my mom left us.

I think life is better not to get attached to people. They disappoint you in the long run anyway, so what’s the point.

No, I’m not a monk. I have needs, so I have one-night stands. Wham, Bam, you’re welcome.

Why
do you think you were called to this journey? Why you?

I’m not stupid. I know that my lifestyle/behavior is not getting me any friends or favors. I’ll even go as far as to say that I am on a soulless journey leading to an inner death if I keep up my crap. Yes, I have the gift of self-awareness. Pin a rose on your nose for noticing. It gets hard not to be liked. I am human after all. So, I guess I needed a kick in the butt to get on the right track of life. Yeah, boo hoo to me.

You
are up against Lena. What is it about her that makes this journey
even more difficult for you?

What makes this journey difficult for me is that the more time she makes things hard for me, the more I like her. Yeah, call me crazy.

Shit, I just realize. I want her to like me. For this to happen, I can’t openly do what I set out to do which is change Prince Charming for the worse. She would hate me for that. So, I have to be devious and do it behind her back.

4. In order to survive or accomplish this, you are going to have to step way outside of your box.

Clearly. That means acting like a decent human being, and a good man in particular. Can I even do it? What if I am doomed to be me, APC, aka Anti Prince Charming.

What
changes do you expect to make and which of them will be the most
difficult?

I must accept that the way I have been thinking and behaving was totally wrong all those years. I have to admit that I have been a total a-hole, and that I have needlessly hurt a lot of people, in particular women. I must completely re-invent myself.

What
habits or ways of thinking do you think will be the most difficult to let
go of?

My default behavior, which is to antagonize people. That is a habit that is going to be hard to shed. And looking at women like they are just not there for my convenience, that they have feelings and deserve to be treated well.

What
fears, insecurities and wounds have held you back?

Fear of not being worthy of being loved. Fear that I cannot change and/or that change won’t bring me happiness. Difficulty of letting getting over being abandoned by my mother.

What
skills, background or expertise makes you well-suited to face this
conflict or antagonist?

I am a fantastic illustrator. I’m convinced it’s going to come in handy in Fairyland.

What
are you hiding from the other characters? What don’t you want them to
know?

That I do not enjoy being an a-hole, but it seems a lot easier, and I have practiced it ever since I remember. I don’t want them to know that I would rather believe in love, but if your own mother did not love you enough to stay with you or take you with her, how can you expect others to love you.

What
do you think of Lena?

She is so over the top with her Prince Charming crap that she’s endearing. She’s smart, and can dish out as much as she gets. I admire that. She doesn’t play victim, and goes after what she wants, even if I don’t approve of her choices. I like that she can be a little devious, that makes her imperfect.

11. Tell me your side of this whole conflict / story.

About this whole Prince Charming business, I don’t think I’m completely wrong. Look how many people are made unhappy because of this Prince Charming concept. Women want him, not getting that he’s the product of a writer’s imagination. He’s fictional. He is unrealistically perfect. Who’s perfect? Women sure aren’t, so why should they demand perfection from men? They go through life looking for Prince Charming, and refuse to settle for a guy who could very well make them happy because of sometimes ludicrous reasons and don’t give them a chance. Or they delude themselves that they found him, and when they realize that he is no Prince Charming, they are miserable and feel cheated.

And for guys, what an impossible standard to live up to. Truth is, they often can fake it enough to get to make it to the altar, but after that, hello reality.

However, I’ve come to understand through my journey that Prince Charming is not to be taken so literally, but as a metaphor for being a better person, and a better man in particular.

What
does it do for your life if you succeed here?

I have no choice but to succeed if I want to live happily ever after, well, may be nor ever after but for however long it will last, which is in and of itself a victory.

INTERVIEW YOUR ANTAGONIST: Lena

1. Tell me about yourself.

I work as a bartender to make ends meet because the job I love, working in a bookstore does not pay enough to cover my expenses.

I am very close to my dad who calls me his princess, to this day. Don’t tell anyone, but I programmed Siri to call me Princess too. It’s actually my middle name. No, I’ve never thought of changing it. Why would I?

I have lots of friends, mostly girls like me. We get together and share our dating horror stories. Boy, is it hard to find a good guy these days, and God knows I give a lot of guys a chance. I mean, I meet a lot of them. No, I don’t sleep around, but I’m not a nun, so every once in a while, I indulge in a no-strings attached romp. They are fun, until the guy leaves, my choice, and I am alone. It’s not a good feeling.

My roommate thinks I’m too picky, but have you seen the offerings out there? So, yes, I want my Prince Charming. Shoot me.

I love reading and watching romance movies, okay rom-coms. C’mon, you know there’s nothing more satisfying than watching a two people in love kiss after a challenging journey at the end of a movie. When that happens, I don’t cry with joy, I scream with joy.

Having to do with this journey,
what are your strengths and weaknesses?

My strength is my conviction that I deserve to find my Prince Charming. Why not? I am truly a romantic. I’m a really nice person. Proof is, I give a small gift to the men I break up with or decide there won’t be a second date so they do not feel too bad. I bring a break up gift to all my dates. How does that work for me? Uh… do I have to answer that?

I am a go-getter, I don’t get discouraged, I just get sad, then I get back on the horse immediately after a letdown, so to speak.

My weaknesses: Mind you, people think they are weaknesses, but I don’t necessarily agree. However, for the sake of I don’t know what, I’ll share them with you. I supposedly am stubborn and unwilling to compromise.

I can also be a little bit disingenuous though I like to call it being playful. I like to fudge things so I come up on top.

Why are you committed to making
the Protagonist fail? Or for a relationship movie, why are you committed
to making them change?

Nick is on a downhill spiral with his hate of Prince Charming. If he keeps it up, he is going to end up alone and miserable. I can’t watch this trainwreck and do nothing about it.

Fine, I’ll admit that even though he drives me crazy, I am attracted to him. If he changes for the best, who knows, we may have a chance.

What do you get out of winning
this fight / succeeding in your plan / taking down your competition?

Winning this fight also means me facing my own doo doo. My dad calling me a, and naming me, Princess does not make me one. I need to get back to Planet Earth and stop asking for perfection when I am no way near perfect. Just like Nick needs to change, I need to change which means for me to stopping chasing Prince Charming.

Out of this victory, I get to grow up and be happy.

What drives you toward your
mission / agenda, even in the face of danger, ruin, or death?

I need to get out of my state of arrested development. I need to act like an adult, and not like a little girl anymore. Life is not perfect; accept it, or better, embrace it.

What secrets must you keep to
succeed? What other secrets do you keep out of fear / insecurity?

I must hide the fact that I am fall. Of course, Nick can’t know or he’ll sabotage the whole thing.

Deep down, I am insecure. I am so ashamed that I got dumped on my first date by my male boyfriend for another boy. A perfect guy, Prince Charming, would never do something as hurtful.

Compared to other people like
you, what makes you special?

My heart is in the right place even though I am sometimes misguided. I don’t dig my heels in the ground when I realize that I was wrong about something my whole life.

What do you think of Nick?

Nick is an infuriating being but I can’t hep thinking that he tries so hard to be nasty and as a result keep people from liking him, that he must be afraid to be liked for some reason. There’s definitely more to him than meets the eye. And, darn, I am attracted to him so I have no choice than to give him the benefit of the doubt because, let’s be clear, I couldn’t be attracted to a man who is unredeemable.

Tell me your side of this whole
conflict / story.

I want it to meet my Prince Charming, so of course when I meet the real deal, I’ll want to have him and bring him back with me even if that sounds insane. However, I will learn that by using Prince Charming from fairy tales as my gold standard for a guy prevents me from opening myself to the possibility of meeting the right guy for me, because in the end, we don’t seek Prince Charming but “the One” who is right for us.

[Ourdia Hodge]

DAY 3: Character Profile Components

Interestingly, this exercise that seemingly focused solely on characters has given ideas for plot points and scenes.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>NICK

What draws us to this character: Total a-hole – His over-the-top awfulness makes it hard for us not to watch him, in a voyeuristic way. We want to follow him like the trainwreck we know he is heading for and see him get his comeuppance.

Some of his arguments for why he does not need to be nice to women is not completely unfounded – if you feel offended by what I just wrote, please, give me credit for not being an a-hole myself, and trust that there is more to what I wrote than appears to be😊

We feel for him because his cat wants nothing to do with him, unless it attacks Nick.

Traits: offensively honest, up for any challenge, animal
lover, can laugh at himself, stubborn<div>

Subtext: Likes Lena though he is not sure why. Uses his rudeness to avoid being rejected. Doubles down when his attitude or arguments are challenged.

Flaw:
fear of being unlovable. <div>

Values:
Honesty. Being true to oneself.
Animal life. Abhors injustice.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Irony: He
is thrown into a world he hates, the one of a fairytale. His interaction
with his nemesis, Prince Charming, causes him to become his biggest fan. He
has the chance to kill Prince Charming, but he chooses to save him at a
high cost for him.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>
<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>What makes Nick the right character for this role? He is the biggest cad and the most unromantic person on
the planet, and he ends up in Fairlyland. He goes from being Prince
Charming-hater to making the best case for why Prince Charming should live
on.

LENA

What draws us to Lena? Her pickiness makes her unhappy. She feels awful when she rejects men. When she does that, she gives them a pep talk so they do not feel bad and does not understand that it does not work. Dumps on Nick for being awful to women. She craves romantic love. She can quote lines from the best rom-coms, American and foreign ones in their original language.

Traits: Romantic, playful, self-indulgent, social-justice
believer </div>

Subtext: She convinces herself that guys take rejection
better that women do. She is attracted to Nick and hates it. She wants to
find a way to bring Prince Charming back to real life with her.

Flaw: She does not live in the real world, wants to live in a
fairytale.

Values: Social-justice, kindness, sincerity,

Irony: She is attracted to Nick even though she dislikes
him. She thinks her failure to have met the right man is men’s fault for
not being up to her standards/liking, yet she criticizes Nick for not
being nice to women. She thinks she is a good woman but will try to take
Prince Charming away from his kingdom and Charmed Princess. She a
social-justice believer but loves the idea of being waited on by ladies
in waiting.

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[Ourdia Hodge]

DAY 2: WHO ARE WE TRAVELING WITH? CHARACTER PROFILE PART 1

Rom-Com: “Effin’ Prince Charming”

NICK

Role in the story: Fighter/victim. Abrasive cad who designs offensive merchandise for a living. Perceives himself as a victim of women’s obsession with meeting a Prince Charming-like man. Travels to Fairyland to change Prince Charming so he does not have to.

Age range and Description: Male, late 20’s/early 30’s. Attractive. Obsessed with exercising.

Internal Journey: From a cad who hates the concept of Prince Charming to becoming the fabled character’s biggest fan and saving him so Prince Charming can” live” on.

External Journey: From wanting to have Prince Charming be rewritten to have him be like the cad he is.

Motivation: He can keep being who he is and still get the girls.

Wound: No one likes him, not even his cat though he spoils him.

Mission/Agenda: To change Prince Charming and when he fails, have the fabled character be rewritten by Hans Christian Anderson to be a cad like him.

Secret: His mother ran off with a man when he was young and left him with his bitter father.

What makes them special? His drive to face the worst hurdles to get what he wants. He is self-deprecating. He does not like himself much.

LENA

Role in the story: Agent of change. Barmaid and bookstore employee. Loves reading fairy tales to kids. Hard to please in regard to men. Seeks her Prince Charming, almost literally, so when she is thrown into Fairyland with Nick, she will do everything to try and bring Prince Charming back with her to the real world.

Age range and Description: Female. Late 20’s/early 30’s. Attractive. In a state of emotional arrested development as in she wants a Prince Charming and will not compromise.

Internal Journey: From seeking the perfect man (Prince Charming) to embracing an imperfect one.

External Journey: From living in Fairyland to happily returning to the real world.

Motivation: Be with Prince Charming.

Wound: She has not found the perfect guy after years of looking.

Mission/Agenda: Bring Prince Charming back with her to the present.

Secret: She lost her very first date with a boy to the waiter who served them their burgers.

What makes them special? She feels awful and guilty every time she rejects a guy.

Supporting characters:

– Prince
Charming

– Hero’s best friend

– Charmed Princess

– Wizard

– Charmed Princess

– Prince Charming’s Nemesis

[Ourdia Hodge]

DAY 1: CREATE THE JOURNEY

Doing this homework helped me clarify Nick’s emotional journey and establish his flaw and characters traits.

NICK:

Internal Journey: From cad, and afraid to be love to kind and allowing himself to fall in love

External Journey: From Prince Charming-hater to saving Prince Charming

NICK’S OLD WAYS:

– Dismisses the notion of romantic love

– Arrogant/mean

– Does not care about hurting people’s feelings

– Despises the concept of Prince Charming

NICK’S NEW WAYS:

– Believes in romantic love

– Kind

– Cares about people’s feelings

– Believes the concept of Prince Charming is a positive thing

[Ourdia Hodge]

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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.

[Ourdia Hodge]

Hi everyone,

My name is Ourdia Hodge. I have written 6 feature scripts, one was optioned, and two pilots.

I took Hal’s none-month class a while ago and really enjoyed it. With this class, I am looking forward to writing a first draft of in 30 days, something I have not done before.

I am French, and the oldest of twelve.

Good luck with your writing, everyone!