A life less ordinary.

Step 1 - The Ordinary World

Pretty self explanatory stuff. The world where the hero lives before the world of the story takes over and transports them into that other place. That other place may be a physically different one or may be a world of psychological construction. For my young adult novel idea I am going to go for the more obvious transformation into a new more world magical but first I need to establish the ordinary world of my story.

So I said my story begins with a troubled teenage girl living with her Uncle and Aunty because her relationship with her parents became too strained. Let's call the girl Emily, it's a name i've always been fond of. Now her ordinary world is the small village she finds herself living in with her kooky relatives. Emily's ordinary world for my idea needs to be informed by some sort of back story. Emily was living in the city with her parents but from a young age had displayed a strong willed rebelliousness that caused her to act out at the world around her. After a history of thieving, bullying etc an incident that involved her tying a boy from her school to a tree (based on something a friend of mine did when I was in school) causes her parents to reach snapping point. Her mother contacts her sister, Emily's aunt who she's never met, the aunt still lives back in the village she grew up in (as do some other odd relatives) and Emily finds herself shipped off to a new life.

My ordinary world would open with Emily trying her best to establish herself in her new home, trying to correct her former behaviour so that she can get out of the home she see's as a prison and back to her life in the city. This initial ordinary world would be about her home life with her new minder's and about life in the village and her social interactions with some of her other family she's never met before and other village locals.

Not bad as far as beginning's go I guess.