Third: Masterpost
Story Summary
Written: February - May 2011
Status: Finished
Starring: Zac
Number of Chapters: 10 + Prologue and Epilogue
For: The Spark Inside: Spring 2011
Following his wife's shocking death and the exposure of her dirty little secrets, Zac leaves Tulsa and heads to the Oregon coast for a few weeks to escape his overbearing family. His goal is to be alone, with only the company of his bull dogs Butch and Cassidy, but then he meets Harlow Lowry, a woman who is unlike anyone he has ever met. Will the walls that Zac has built around his heart stay strong or will Harlow find her way in?
Author's Note
Part of the fun with The Spark Inside is the challenges that are provided that you get to use to shape and direct your story. This year, all the writers submitted suggestions then Brits scrambled them up and assigned them so everybody gotten unique challenges.
The list below are the challenges I received. The one that is crossed out is the one I decided to leave out.
- The event that gets the story rolling: Car accident
- A secondary conflict: A neighbor finds out the protagonist’s secret
- One setting: a bowling alley
- Theme: Revenge - retaliation by Protagonist or Antagonist against the other for real or imagined injury
- One challenge: kidnapping
- One random plot point/twist: character is actually the last human on the earth
- One cardinal character trait: Introversion
- One character weakness: is a pushover
- Character's most prized possession: a ring
- One every day character problem: high blood pressure problems
- One character fear: terrified of dogs
- One character quirk: randomly bursts into song
- One character problem: tormented by someone else's memories
- One non-Hanson song: Buckethead & Viggo - Gone
- Dialogue: "This is why I'm seriously considering becoming a hermit and living under a damned rock!"
Chapters
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Epilogue
Also available in PDF
Extras
Characters