Schemes and Dreams

It took longer to get Rayvn into the story then I had planned so even I needed to go back and double check.? The whole story has gone in a different direction, but all I really had was a rough outline. It was meant to have leeway to follow interesting storylines.

As soon as I started writing Mimi I knew I wanted them/her to be a feel good character. Watching Thorne I knew he wasn't going to be a lovable character, he's going to be trouble. I had to do some research to learn text abbreviations. I knew young adults like Rayvn, Tianna, and really a huge chunk of the cast would text in abbreviations and emojis. If I wanted to make it believable I needed to learn.

The incompetent head chef came about because I was thinking, how do I explain the fact that I was late doing the auditions. I mentioned it in the very first paragraph of chapter one and then did nothing. So I decided to play it off as having been delayed. But why? That's when I came up with the idea that the staff had food poisoning. I decided to make it funny and that's how Plumbob Studios staff was poisoned by their incompetent chef. Who by the way is the incompetent ex-chef.

The idea for the receptionist came to me from stories you hear about the odd jobs wannabe actors take in hopes of being discovered while they're on the job. So I figured, ok, she answered the ad for a receptionist at the studio. Now she imagined that by the time the first coffee break rolled around on day one she would already have been discovered, which she wasn't. A month later, she still hasn't been discovered and she watches all these other beautiful young women and men coming in and out, every day. Now she's angry, disillusioned, and jaded. So I pictured her as the type that's going to be uber snarky.

I can't say for sure, but I feel like Thorne is going to really separate himself from the field and emerge as the sole front runner for worst spouse. Octavia does have work to do about her temper, but I feel like a lot of that stems from Thorne's behavior. She loves him, or she thinks she does, but he makes it difficult. I feel that way deep down she's conflicted and it bubbles over. We'll see how their relationship evolves.