Wednesday, March 9, 2011

New Direction

Even though most of my decisions can be justified, like sending a seven year old Wendy to college, it just doesn't work. So...here are some of my plans for fixing the problem.

The journey is about Wendy getting to know her mother through her mother's memories, so I want the journey to take Wendy everywhere Corryn has been, so the locations and people trigger the memories. Now, the Act 1 decision will be Wendy's decision to leave her home (run away) and find out who the woman is she keeps thinking about.

The journey first takes Wendy to Harvard, where Wendy meets her companion, Sadi, a neuroscience major. Sadi takes Wendy to Ardon's office, and Ardon explains to Wendy that the woman she remembers is dead. He also tells her about the experiment. Ardon wants to run a series of tests on Wendy to see how the experiment worked and how to make it even better. Wendy wants to go home now that she knows her mother is dead and there's nothing to look for, but then Wendy has a vision about when her mother first decided to work on the experiment, because she was dying and she didn't want her life to end without purpose. Wendy decides to continue the journey, learn more about her mother and the experiment, and eventually contribute to the purpose of her mother's life.

Act 2 will end with the new situation: Wendy knows Corryn is her mother and that Corryn experimented on her, but she still doesn't know it's the reason she was born (this will come later when Wendy begins to love her mother...and then BOOM, she discovers Corryn had her because she needed someone to conduct the experiment on, even though there will several risks involved).

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