Snowflake Step Two
Here's the second step of my snowflake, in which the one-sentence summary is expanded to a paragraph:
When Sam’s parents tell her they’ve lost her college tuition, she takes the little money she has left and leaves rainy Portland for the desert. The town she loved as a tourist is less friendly to its newest resident, until the next-newest takes pity and lets her move in above his internet cafe. Her job search is a disaster, landing her with a pack of rescued Pharaoh hounds she can’t afford to feed. She cons tourists into donating to the “new sport of sand-mushing” until a Buddhist monk calls her bluff and gives her work at his semi-secret date farm while she trains the dogs. Sand mushing is put to the test when a monk obsessed with fat choy fungus gets lost and needs rescue. After Sam and the dogs save the day, the townspeople warm up and she even gets a few sponsors for dog food, gear, and sandmushing exhibitions. She sets up an ecotourism paradise-to-be, actually just a couple of tents for now, with her new business partner, the internet cafe guy. The first visitors arrive as beauty-struck and naive as she was: she knows she’s found her place.
When Sam’s parents tell her they’ve lost her college tuition, she takes the little money she has left and leaves rainy Portland for the desert. The town she loved as a tourist is less friendly to its newest resident, until the next-newest takes pity and lets her move in above his internet cafe. Her job search is a disaster, landing her with a pack of rescued Pharaoh hounds she can’t afford to feed. She cons tourists into donating to the “new sport of sand-mushing” until a Buddhist monk calls her bluff and gives her work at his semi-secret date farm while she trains the dogs. Sand mushing is put to the test when a monk obsessed with fat choy fungus gets lost and needs rescue. After Sam and the dogs save the day, the townspeople warm up and she even gets a few sponsors for dog food, gear, and sandmushing exhibitions. She sets up an ecotourism paradise-to-be, actually just a couple of tents for now, with her new business partner, the internet cafe guy. The first visitors arrive as beauty-struck and naive as she was: she knows she’s found her place.