STORY TELLING UNIT: "The Meeting" story development

With today's lecture I realised that even with my revised version of "The Meeting" that it would still be a struggle to fit the whole story into 10 minutes. So I went back to the drawing board and have managed to slightly change the story to make it a lot more achievable in 10 minutes by making the story more about the writer and the meeting only lasting a couple of hours in one day. I also changed the main characters name to Eli as I noticed there was another story in the class with the main characters name being Sidney. My third change for "The Meeting" can be seen below.

 When Eli, a young writer in his early twenties struggling with writers block and trying to get his previous book off the ground, opens yet another rejection letter he hits rock bottom. Finding rescue at the bottom of the bottle, he stumbles around the high street of Rochester. On the verge of passing out on a bench Eli is approached by a girl in a pink hat who offers to help him home.

Eli wakes up the next morning in his bed with no recollection of how he got home or in bed for that matter. He finds a note saying “You’re welcome” which just adds to the mystery of how he got home. Hung-over he goes to a cafe and a girl in a pink hat catches his eye. Unable to recall where he knows this girl from he sits alone in the cafe. She sees Eli and walks over to him and introduces herself.

Throughout their meeting Eli and Alexis talk about how she helped Eli home the night before and tell each other stories about their lives, their past and what they want for their future. Such as Eli's writers block, Alexis’ car crash she was involved in when she was younger, Eli’s parents rejection of his writing career. As their meeting progresses and they get to know each other better. The story of Eli’s career is quickly develops in his head he suddenly realises that Alexis is his muse. Needing to immediately write it down Eli jumps from his seat in the cafe and kisses Alexis on the cheek and runs towards the door. When he gets outside he decides to takes a leap of faith and runs back into the cafe to ask Alexis out.