Revamp

After talking to other people and listening to others in class, I feel like I want to take my mystery story one step farther. Since the Mysterious Account of Albert Lee is a mystery, I would like to maybe have different segments leading different places; a 'choose your own' ending/path kind of story. I'm not sure how to do this exactly. Perhaps through linking different sections of the blog together. You can be reading post one and choose to go either to post two or post five, and each would contain a different occurrence in the story. I'm not sure.
As for pictures, I know I want to interject them throughout the story and probably fairly often. I don't think I'll use them to segment the story per say, but more to illustrate the story. I would like to have pictures of Albert Lee's shadow, our spying adventure, maybe some spy gear, etc. As for the map I think it will follow our adventures around Morgantown. I'll probably use a mix of linking the pictures to Flickr and embedding them on my blog.

First Project-Where I Am

The other day in class we were asked to start writing our narrative for the first project. What I came up with was The Mysterious Account of Albert Lee. After writing the introduction to the Albert story I felt really confident that I could make not only a good narrative, but a fun traveling/map story as well. Looking back on my introduction of Albert Lee I am not so sure. Perhaps my creative juices just aren't flowing at the moment, but I feel like a total re haul may be in order. I would like to stick with the story of Albert because I feel I might be able to tie it in with the actual story of Albert Lee that my roommate, Amy, and I encountered. After my classes one day about week ago, Amy was supposed to pick me up. I called her when I left Stansbury and realized that she wasn't waiting for me. She was still at our apartment locked in the bathroom with Albert Lee; an orange tabby. She had found Albert sitting next to her car when she had originally left to come pick me up. We're both cat lovers, but Amy is particularly a sucker for orange cats. She had a sense of panic that Albert was going to be run over by a car and quickly scooped him up and brought him into our apartment, much to the dismay of our two cats. So, I arrived home a bit later and found her still locked in the bathroom with Albert. I joined her and we both quickly fell in love with him. Unfortunately, Albert had a collar which made me think that perhaps Albert was an outdoor cat, but maybe not Amy interjected! We called the number listed on his tag and got no answer. About an hour later we decided to try the address on the tag and upon our arrival at the house, found the door wide open. Albert seemed familiar with the house so we dropped him off inside (after yelling to see if anyone was home) and shut the door behind him. We left a message with the owner and went off on our way feeling we had done a good deed for the day. A few hours later we received a phone call from Albert's owner thanking us profusely for returning Albert and our satisfaction grew!

Ok, so although Amy and I thought this was a funny and socially rewarding, a cat story is not the greatest angle for a narrative. So I came up with the idea to have Albert be a mysterious visitor and make Amy and myself spy-like characters. It will cover about a day, or week...I'm not sure. The drama is obviously finding out who Albert is and what he is doing. I'd like it to really turn out to be a mystery/spy genre narrative, but we'll see. I'm still working on it.

Bubble Wrap!

Link

Here's a link to the class syllabus:

The Mysterious Account of Albert Lee

Yesterday I received a call from my roommate, Amy, about a mysterious visitor to our apartment. She had not seen his face, but only the shadow of a man running around the corner. In his wake he left a card that contained no contact information, merely the name Albert Lee.
"Albert Lee?" I asked into my cell phone. "Who is Albert Lee?"
Neither of us knew who Albert Lee could be. Was it the man who belonged to the shadow? Or was it something more? Amy and I began to search the internet to find any information relating to Albert Lee...People, businesses, anything at all! We came up with nothing. We decided that the only way to figure out who or what Albert Lee was was to stake out the place where Amy had seen the shadow. We began our reconnaissance that night.


Cyberdrama:
-change
-revealing emotion
-perspective on self