Alessandro is a writer. However, he seems not to be able to finish any of his manuscripts. Instead, he works as a freelance ghostwriter for blogs and newspapers. On a night out with Andrea, his best friend, he stumbled upon Natalia and his everlasting first love Giulia, with whom he had only platonic love. After a night spent together, the four decided to embark on a journey across Italy, Spain, and Morocco. It is a story of glorious love, a disastrous one with the inner self, life, death. It is a journey to rediscovering an authentic self.
The Antagonist Plots the Point
The Antagonist of the story is Alessandro’s self-doubt, fueled by an antagonist relationship with his father, a loving, inspiring yet short relationship with his younger brother, and an unreached but hopeful love relationship with Giulia.
At every unfinished manuscript, Alessandro finds that his imposter syndrome made him doubt his characters, the ones he created. It seems like they were lying to him. And then the stories died in monotony and self-doubt.
After every almost-finished novel, there was a period of an identity crisis, looking for answers. Those periods always lasted three stages. An “he is the victim" period was the worst. He felt like everything that happened to him was terrible, like he had some black eye magic cast on his aura. It was followed by a period of self-discovery, where latent passions reemerged among new ones. He would devour self-improvement and self-esteem books in this stage, only to forget about their newly acquired knowledge short after. And finally, the third stage was what he called "The New Life,”; full of promises of new beginnings, of new Septembers. Usually, he starts a new novel during this period, only to find himself to stage one, a few months along the road.
Conjuring your breakout title
Unfinished Manuscripts
New Septembers
She saw me crying
Comparables
Genre - Fiction/Romantic Novels
Colleen Hoover
Matt Haig
Primary Conflict
An aspiring writer searching for his inner self, navigating the childhood dramas of loss, death, and feeling of unworthiness while chasing the love of his life, who thought was missed forever, in a lifetime journey across four cities with four lifelong friends.
Other matters of conflict: two more levels
1st Level - Inner conflict.
Alessandro became a crowd-pleaser, afraid of confrontation and putting his works in the world. Primarily due to the toxic relationship with his father.
2nd Level - External Conflict
Every character develops and eventually finds the cathartic moment that resolves other issues, like the loss of job and security, the stigma around same-sex relationships, etc.
Defining the setting
The story takes place in various locations worldwide, from Verona to Seville, from Morocco to Los Angeles.
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Story Statement
Alessandro is a writer. However, he seems not to be able to finish any of his manuscripts. Instead, he works as a freelance ghostwriter for blogs and newspapers. On a night out with Andrea, his best friend, he stumbled upon Natalia and his everlasting first love Giulia, with whom he had only platonic love. After a night spent together, the four decided to embark on a journey across Italy, Spain, and Morocco. It is a story of glorious love, a disastrous one with the inner self, life, death. It is a journey to rediscovering an authentic self.
The Antagonist Plots the Point
The Antagonist of the story is Alessandro’s self-doubt, fueled by an antagonist relationship with his father, a loving, inspiring yet short relationship with his younger brother, and an unreached but hopeful love relationship with Giulia.
At every unfinished manuscript, Alessandro finds that his imposter syndrome made him doubt his characters, the ones he created. It seems like they were lying to him. And then the stories died in monotony and self-doubt.
After every almost-finished novel, there was a period of an identity crisis, looking for answers. Those periods always lasted three stages. An “he is the victim" period was the worst. He felt like everything that happened to him was terrible, like he had some black eye magic cast on his aura. It was followed by a period of self-discovery, where latent passions reemerged among new ones. He would devour self-improvement and self-esteem books in this stage, only to forget about their newly acquired knowledge short after. And finally, the third stage was what he called "The New Life,”; full of promises of new beginnings, of new Septembers. Usually, he starts a new novel during this period, only to find himself to stage one, a few months along the road.
Conjuring your breakout title
Unfinished Manuscripts
New Septembers
She saw me crying
Comparables
Genre - Fiction/Romantic Novels
Colleen Hoover
Matt Haig
Primary Conflict
An aspiring writer searching for his inner self, navigating the childhood dramas of loss, death, and feeling of unworthiness while chasing the love of his life, who thought was missed forever, in a lifetime journey across four cities with four lifelong friends.
Other matters of conflict: two more levels
1st Level - Inner conflict.
Alessandro became a crowd-pleaser, afraid of confrontation and putting his works in the world. Primarily due to the toxic relationship with his father.
2nd Level - External Conflict
Every character develops and eventually finds the cathartic moment that resolves other issues, like the loss of job and security, the stigma around same-sex relationships, etc.
Defining the setting
The story takes place in various locations worldwide, from Verona to Seville, from Morocco to Los Angeles.