Sunday, September 13, 2015

Style Brain Storming: Beauty Shop of the Gods

Topic: My storybook will be about drama in a beauty salon and spa for the Greek gods and goddeses. I want the stories to be told from all the character's point of view. I'd like for it to be a drama with all of them gossiping. I want to use characters like Psyche from Apuleius: Psyche's Beauty. Her story is the drama that my story is going to need. I would like to have the story to be based around the goddess Aphrodite, and her love affairs in the story of Aphrodite. I'll use the story of Adonis and Aphrodite to incorporate a mortals from Ovid's Metamorphoses. I want the story to be like if the reader was watching a reality television show. I believe I will be able to find enough stories on love and drama to fit in my story book.

1. Bibiliography:Apuleius: Psyche's Beauty , from The Golden Asse, Lucius Apuleius, Late 2nd century AD.
2. Bibilography: Ovid's Metamorphoses, from the Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline, 2000.

Possible Styles:
Character point of view: I like the idea of the story being told completely from the characters. From experience I connect to the story much better when I read. I feel like a lot more detail is going to coming directly from the characters. I want as much drama as possible while still making the story seem believable.
Television show: I can make this story seem like they are on a television show. The characters can begin in the beauty shop but end up taking it further to settler their drama on a show like Maury. Maury is all about drama, which is exactly what my story is going to need. The show can be told from Maury's point of view then it will end on his show.
The point of view of an observer: I think making this story come from someone who is unbiased and telling what they see would be classic. Being a sassy and smart mouth kind of person, the person or object speaking would have very sarcastic way of retelling what everyone is saying.
Commentators: I spend almost everyday watching sports. So why not have all the drama unfold in the beauty shop being told by two sport commentators. This will differ from the object point of view because that will be an insider of the shop that sees it every day. The commentator will be giving play by plays completely from the outside. As opposed to the insider in the shop that will just be adding in their comments to the characters.
A beauty shop. Source: Wikipedia

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