Success Narratives
After having selected "umbrella" words to represent at least two dominant qualities/strengths (which you should allow to change as you proceed), you are to compose a list of as many successes that you can locate in your history. For at least five of these, write brief narrative sketches to indicate what happened (100-250 words, in-scene).
What makes a success narrative: a character-narrator encounters a significant challenge, and in some way (on account of some "strength") surmounts the challenge and produces a result. The result is usually positively charged, but to some degree it also contains a negatively charged element (the "bite"). From these sketches, you will select two narratives to develop further. One of which should, ideally, be relatively recent (having occurred in the past few years), and should reveal, in scene, the character narrator producing a result by virtue of some "quality" that remains unnamed.
The other success narrative should be of a significant moment of success anytime in your past.
Also present in the scene should be some corresponding flaw, called the "bite" of the quality/strength that produces success for the character narrator.
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