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.