"Too Much" Assignment

In a paragraph of no fewer than 300 words, describe the premise for a story called "Too Much_______" (you fill in the blank).  Then list at least six plot turns for the story.

Too Much: Free Time

Hadlee Erikson is just a regular college senior. She’s getting anxiety over the fact that in less than six months she’s graduating and moving into the real world. She’s stressing over the fact that her LSAT scores probably weren’t as good as they should have been. She’s freaking out over the fact that she has some major life decisions that she’ll have to make and to top it all off, she might’ve just killed someone.

Actually, she knows for a fact that she just killed someone. Despite the fact that she’s clamping her eyes shut, she can still hear their cries as she stands over them. She didn’t mean to; she didn’t want to. Tears are streaming down her face as Hadlee turns and sprints away from the worst decision of her life. She keeps shaking her head as she runs; she wants to forget. She can’t forget. She tries to block it out. She can’t block it out. Flashbacks of everything keep popping into her head. She’s going insane. She stumbles and she thinks that she falls. She isn’t sure…and then everything goes black.

Hadlee wakes up and she isn’t sure what’s happening. After checking her phone, she realizes that its ten days ago…ten days before everything happened. Ten days ago she was just a regular college senior, minding her own business with regular college senior responsibilities.

Hadlee stays in bed for another hour before even deciding to move. She turns over and tries to close her eyes but the flashbacks keep coming. How did she end up back in bed? There were questions that needed to be answered and she sure as hell wasn’t going to get any of them by staying in bed.

Before she can get out of bed, though, there’s a knock on her apartment door. She hesitates…and the knock on the door happens again. Who is it and what will happen…?

6 Plot Turns:

1.     Each chapter will be a date. So, for example, the opening scene starts with the premise. The reader will be introduced to the climax/highest stake immediately. There will be no background shed onto the situation…it simply just happens.

2.     The second chapter will be the start of the flashbacks; each chapter will get the reader closer to how Hadlee ended up killing someone/some people. Chapter 2 opens with Hadlee entering her senior year at Princeton University. She struggles with keeping her social life, academic life, and life in general together. In addition to that, she finds out that her favorite teacher has been switched with her most difficult teacher.

3.     Hadlee is given an assignment from her said most difficult teacher (Professor DeFino….?). It’s unlike any assignment that she’s ever been given before (I’m not sure what the exact details are yet…along the lines of something she’s never had to do before; exceeding her limits, etc).

4.     Hadlee meets someone/is paired up with someone who changes her life, and it won’t be for the better. I’m thinking his name will be Lawrence. Lawrence puts her in awful situations (some for the assignment; some because he likes to torture her).

5.      Hadlee tries to get away from Lawrence/get her assignment partner switched. She’s faced with the reality that she can’t get away from him.

6.     She’s kills someone. Duh.