Creative+Writing




 * 1) List the Positive Consequences and Negative Consequences **

-Longer life span -The ability to experience more in life -The ability to go through life again while making better choices -Being able to experience youth again -Second chances -More time to do everything -Could give some people the confidence to try something they never would consider doing before because they know they have a chance to do everything over again
 * Positive Consequences **

-Power struggle which leads to World War III -Addictions to the Fountain -The possibility of the Fountain getting drained out -People not learning valuable lessons because they’re able to live again and correct them -The amount of power an individual or country could have -Over population
 * Negative Consequences **

Character Development
 * 2) Describe Your Character **

The story takes place Manhattan, New York. The story starts with disbelief and doubtfulness and turns more serious.
 * 3) Describe the Setting **

Man/Woman vs.Himself/Herself. It's more a struggle to believe in things that she thinks couldn't possibly exist.
 * 4) What is the Main Conflict? **


 * Plot Outline **

A young journalist, Alex Kepner, is working on a story for the Manhattan Daily, a newspaper where nearly everything is a joke and rarely does a serious lead come in. Her assignment is to do a write up on James Burnham and his apparent "discovery of the century".

I'm figuring out the rest of it as I go along so... anything on this page could change at any second because I'm very indecisive and I usually end up writing like 5 different versions of the same thing.

Also the Fountain of Youth in my story is almost like a time machine. It immediately takes you back to your youth. It isn't without its consequences though. The entire world goes back to that time with you. There will be no progress in humanity. Even if you may not age on the outside you will on the inside. Given another chance at youth your loved ones may choose a life without you.

5) The beginning of the story is my main character, Alex's, dream. She is dreaming about a day in her life where she was happy and content. Then her dream becomes a nightmare and she feels insecure and alone. When she wakes up she is back in her adult life where she doesn't believe in magic or the fountain of youth. By the end of her encounter with Mr. Burnham and his fountain of youth she does believe and ends up going back in time the that day in her life that she was happy and content in.

6) The irony in my story is that Alex was disbelieving of the fountain of youth. She thinks it's just a legend and that Mr. Burnham is just a fake that's wasting her time. Then she ends up getting to relive her youth and happiness because of a "legend" and a "fake".

7) Alex's job at the Manhattan Daily is a symbol for a dead end and the fountain of youth is a symbol for a way to escape from her dead end.

8) The theme of my story is second chances.