Things to consider

1. Are there enough details when simply describing the place?

a. I describe the place but not in great detail, so I could elaborate on the description of the place throughout my story.

2. How do you establish yourself as credible as an authority worth listening to?

a. My story starts with me performing on this stage for the very first time and how I recall sitting in the audience as a child and have developed to this perform here. Throughout the story I gain credibility the more I continue to perform on the stage.

3. How do you move the discussion of a place into a new and unique area? Is it the same ol same ol.

a. Since I perform on the stage different years and with many different people I feel that it’s the people that make the place new and unique each time I revisit it throughout the story.

4. What do we need to know about the intended audience?

a. The audience is broad. This is mainly a story that reflects on my time in this place and I feel that the moments that I have to share can be relatable to anyone who has a place with very personal, emotional memories like this one.

5. What values do you assume your readers have? How are you tapping into it with your place?

a. I hope that my readers would have a sense of nostalgia within them. The audience ideally should be able to appreciate the past events in their life and recognize how fast time flies. I assume they also understand how a place can be special enough to develop a person.

Character Development:

Full Name: Rachel Selena Surgent

Gender: Female

Age and Date of Birth (as your story does not need to have a contemporary setting): October

28, 1998 (age 15 and 18)

Birth City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Parent’s Names: Jeff and Diana

Siblings: none

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Pets: one dog, Java

Education: High School

Favorite Movie: American in Paris (1952)

Favorite TV Show: Fixer Upper

Favorite Book: The Things They Carried (1990)

Favorite Food: Anything Pasta

Favorite Day of the Week: Saturday

Favorite Hobby: Dance

Favorite Drink: Vanilla Coke

Favorite Artist/Band: Frank Sinatra

Favorite Song: “The Way You Look Tonight”- Frank Sinatra

Favorite Halloween Costume (if s/he celebrated Halloween): never enjoyed celebrating

Halloween because it overshadowed her birthday.

Religious affiliation: Methodist Christian

Political affiliation: Conservative

Love interest(s): none for the purpose of this story

Physical Description: 5’2, slim, with particularly small hands, pale skin.

Eye Color: light blue

Hair Color and Style: medium brown, naturally wavy/curly but often wears it straight, very long

(waist length)

Height: 5’2

Weight: 104 lbs

Skin Tone: Pale

Facial Description (does s/he have a unique nose, forehead, eyes, ears, lips,

ect.?): She has very brilliant blue eyes, often wears a red lip which makes her lips look fuller.

Clothes (what s/he is wearing or usually wears): often dresses nice, wears dresses, nice blouses.

Never wore a pair of sweatpants to school for her entire 4 years of high school

Other Physical Characteristics (booty, busty, muscular, corpulent, scrawny,

disproportioned, ect.): She’s stick thin, with a flat butt, kinda has a bust that makes her look

slightly disproportionate but whatever, is often told she needs to eat a few burgers.

Defining Moments

The one childhood instance—good or bad—that indelibly affects who this

character is now: Going to the Benedum theater as a young child and watching the performers knowing she would love to do that too one day. Or Her very first dance recital, age 3, going up on stage and her personality unfolds, highly energetic, enjoys performing in front of large crowds, having a personality for the stage.

The character’s proudest moment: Being nominated for 10 Kelly’s and winning 6 (a school

record) twice during her duration of High School and being part of school history.

The character’s most embarrassing moment: During her senior year show, she had a very rapid

quick change (with poor quick-change artists) that also required a wig for the following

scene. For the final dress rehearsal/senior citizen night, she went out on stage for her scene missing one shoe, skirt backwards and her wig came off during her exit.

The character’s career goals of future aspirations/ambitions: Retiring from the stage, she now

wants to pursue finance and then move onto law school, hopefully entering coporate or

entertainment law.

Whom the character would most like to have dinner with (past or present)

and why: Frank Sinatra because he is an amazing artist and she had the biggest crush on him

when she was 7 (and kinda still does now). Or Gene Kelly because he is a major influence in her dance career and one of her favorite actors in her favorite movies. Additionally, he is from her hometown of Pittsburgh and she feels that they would get along well.

Three adjectives the character would use to describe him/herself:

1. Energetic

2. Optimistic

3. Caring (mom-like?)