Prospectus - Fun

Samuel Mack
13 November 2008
ENG 111
Joe ‘Richard’ Griffin
At first, I had no fucking idea what to write. The options seemed to plentiful, but I was pretty much ready to just write a generic poem. Woo-hoo. But then the more I thought about it, I began to come up with more refined ideas. I finally decided on doing a collection of vignettes based on people from my dorm as dramatized characters.
I’ll go about asking approximately thirty people from my dorm existentialist-like/philosophical questions and then create a character based on the way they answer the questions. Of those thirty responses, I’ll probably use the ten that I can work with the most to create a character of them and make the collection of vignettes. The types of questions I’ll be asking are sometimes very pointed while other times open ended. Some examples are:1. What do you believe in? (by any standard)2. How do you think your roommate(s) would react if you happened to die tomorrow?3. How do you think you could change the world tomorrow?
4. Name the strongest emotion you would feel if you found out you or your best girl-friend was pregnant?5. What does your existence mean to you?
I’ll probably make the vignettes connect to a general theme I can tie them all together with once I have rounded up all the necessary responses. I’m also going to compile all of the responses and put them in a mock-journal typed format.
As for the genre, as I’ve mentioned about approximately five times already… I’m going to do a series of vignettes based on characters in my dorm. The style of the collection will probably change from vignette to vignette based on the character and the perspective of which the story is being told.
The purpose of my writing this collection is to give a glimpse into the somewhat fictionalized minds of teenagers from my dorm. The audience would probably be young adults or adults interested in the lives of young teenagers. I might include the actual interview questions and answers as well. I’m personally choosing this topic because I feel like teen fiction is often trite and unoriginal so I want to give my best attempt to try and doing something slightly innovative in the world of teen fiction. Woot if it works. But if it turns out to be the same general crap, then I guess I failed. Either way, I think I’m going to have fun with this one.