Snowflakers Forums

I knew a few other wordpress.comers are using the snowflake method for some of their novels. I’d like to share a new forum that is actually linked from Randy’s page somewhere. It’s a set of forums run by Iain. It’s not very active but it is very useful in getting a critque from other users of the method. It’s helping me through this process and is where all the revisions are coming from that I’m making.

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One Page Summary Revision 1

Harrow, world of fortune and prosperity, is coming into a new era. King XXXX is retiring his crown to his son, Tristan. Tristan is a good man, with differing views on the kingdom and the neighboring relationships than his father. Jaysin Plaer, leader of the Undercurrents, is working with the government of Trey, a neighboring nation to thrawt these changes that Prince Tristan will seek to make. Jaysin begins the search for a young mallable person to be his pawn.

Alexis has just started out alone in her career as an assassin in Trey. She seeks fame and forture, but the job market is sparce. She hears that Jaysin is looking for someone to do a job for him. The details are sketchy but Alexis seeks out the overlord and hopes to gain his favor and attain the job. As details come to Alexis she realizes the job is not what she actively seeks but continues on with the negotiations. She knows that if she does the job, bigger and more prestigious jobs will flock to her hand.

Alexis is given the job, Jaysin beleives she is just young enough to be molded into a fine pawn. The journey to Harrow is long but uneventful and Alexis has time to study the grounds and the information that she was given. Getting into the palace would be her first challenge. With effort she manages to make the princes chambers and get him out with out notice. Their journey would be long and hard.

Tristan finds himself in the hands of the kidnapper and knows he must escape. He knows its a ploy for the crown and seeks to remove himself from the situation as quickly as possible. The first night Tristan tries to escape while Alexis is sleeping. He only manages to get a little ways down the road before he is felled again. Alexis threatens to slit his throat and Tristan knows she is serious, he begins to think of another approach. As they travel Alexis and Tristan talk and Tristan finds a common demonimator between him and Alexis. He uses this to persuade her to let him go.

Before Alexis can let him go a stranger happens upon them. It wasn’t happenstance, he was sent by Jaysin. The stranger tries to kill both Alexis and Tristan but with a little bit of team work Tristan and Alexis dispatch their foe. Alexis informs Tristan that the threat on his life is now greater than before and that it will not stop unless something is done about the overall plan. Tristan agrees but for the time being it is imperative that Tristan get back to Harrow and be crowned King. Tristan brings Alexis with him in hopes that she might now help protect his life, now that they’ve come to an agreement. For now they are safe, Jaysin does not know his plan has failed.

Character Summaries Revision 2

Name: Alexis Dorina

Sentence: Alexis persuades her way into an aytpical job and finds herself at odds with what she must do and what she wants do.

Motivation (abstract): Alexis wishes to be well known among the undercurrents as a deadly assassin.

Goal (concrete): Alexis wants to bring Tristan back to Jaysin and gain prestige and fame from her peers.

Conflict: Alexis’ captive is persistent and has a way about him that she can’t help but like.

Epiphany: Alexis’ realizes that Jaysin’s plan is wrong and she should do the right thing even though it won’t get her want she wants professionally.

Paragraph: Alexis has finally struck out on her own and has been proclaimed an assassin by her peers. She persuades Trey’s renowned leader of the undercurrents to allow her to kidnap the Prince of Harrow, a job she wouldn’t normally take. Alexis Knows this will bring her fame and prestige. The capture of the prince goes according to plan, but on the journey back to Trey the unexpected happens. Prince Tristan works his way into her heart and changes her belief system. But before she can let the prince go, a bounty hunter finds them. Together they dispatch the man, but now their lives hang in jeopardy.

Name: Prince Tristan Aslyn of Harrow

Sentence: Tristan must escape the hands of his kidnapper before she turns him over to a horrible man.

Motivation (abstract): Tristan wants to be a great king.

Goal (concrete): Tristan needs to persuade his captor or escape her clutches if he wants to see his next birthday. Like it!

Conflict: Alexis is a beautiful woman with a fire about her but she is leading Tristan to a fate worse than death – not to be king.

Epiphany: Tristan realizes that not all people are good or evil, there is always a little of both in everyone.

Paragraph: Tristan is preparing to be King, he is months away from being crowned when he is kidnapped by a young woman. Tristan tries to escape the clutches of his kidnapper only to be thrawted on each attempt. Tristan must escape before his next birthday or the crown will go to another. He eventually persuades his kidnapper to let him go by appealing to her ambitious nature. However, before the ropes are cut completely they are attacked. Alexis assures him he can go, but his life is in immediate danger. Tristan brings Alexis back to the castle to keep her safe.

Name: Jaysin Plaer

Sentence: Jaysin’s plan to kidnap the Prince of Harrow goes afoul when his pawn doesn’t do the job.

Motivation (abstract): Jaysin wants fortune.

Goal (concrete): Jaysin needs the prince in his hand or dead, either will fuel his plans.

Conflict: Alexis falls for Tristan and won’t turn him over.

Epiphany: Jaysin finds that not all people can lead the criminal life even if their hearts are solid in the matter at the start.

Paragraph: As leader of the undercurrents in Trey, Jaysin is always seeking to profit from major issues. The crowning of neighboring kingdom of Harrow would dampen his foot hold in both kingdoms when the Prince takes over. Jaysin plans to kidnap the prince and ransom him off. After the deadline for the crowing has passed a man more to Jaysin’s liking and nature will take the throne. Jaysin hires Alexis, a reputed assassin, young and malleable to his way to do the job. Word reaches Jaysin that Alexis has fallen for the prince and he sends a bounty hunter after them. The mission is to kill them both.