Düsselwriters

Welcome to this collaborative writing session! Are you ready to be surprised and develope stories in a unexpected way? Then release your imagination, take your favourite writing gear and join us!

As starting point we will use a trio of characters that we defined in our first meeting:
Kimchi (isolated young boy who lives alone in a flat)
Kale (young girl who has a deep knowledge about the neighborhood)
Ponytail (evil mysterious man)

This trio of characters may fit with the Karpman drama triangle, a structure present in many different type of stories like fairy tales, but also in modern ones like Elantris (Raoden, Sarene, Hrathen), neverending story (Atreyu, the empress, the nothing), the princess bride (Westley, Buttercup, Humperdinck)… also is present videogames like Legend of Zelda (Link, Zelda, Ganon). It is present in many cultures like romanian folklore (fat frumos, Ileana Cosânzeană, Balaur).

The agenda will be:
1. Presentation of the participants
2. Brief introduction to the workshop mechanics
3. Introduction to the characters and collaborative definition of the relationships and the goals
4. Write three chapters individually (introduction - middle - end)
5. In parallel the workshop leader will compose another story with all the points in common from the individual ones.
6. Share experience and feedback

There will be a fee of 2 euros to cover Meetup expenses.

Welcome to this collaborative writing session! Are you ready to be surprised and develope stories in a unexpected way? Then release your imagination, take your favourite writing gear and join us!

As starting point we will use the input defined in a previous meeting:
Lauriel's hotel:
Lauriel is a young woman, she manage the family hotel which had several generations

The agenda will be:
1. Presentation of the participants
2. Brief introduction to the workshop mechanics
3. Introduction to Lauriel's hotel story.
4. Write three chapters individually (introduction - middle - end). After each chapter, we will summarize the common ideas and will define the conflict for the next chapter.
5. Share experience and feedback

This is the introduction to write the first chapter. The requirements are to use the characters, the hotel plot and solve the conflict betwen Lauriel and the twins regarding the hotel property.

For any question, do not hesitate to write a message in the event or to me directly.

Lauriel, a young woman manages the family hotel—a legacy passed down from generation to generation—now serving as its head following her father's death. She runs it impeccably, upholding the family's Latin traditions by strictly enforcing the rules and paying meticulous attention to every detail. For her, receiving praise is of great importance, as is feeling in harmony with the spiritual realm. She is a believer in spiritualism and in the connection with the afterlife.
She wears glasses but she feels insecure about, so she takes them out quite often when she doesn't need them. She wants to look nice and even if she is fully aware of how she is, she needs to receive compliments to increase her selfsteam.
On the eve of the Day of the Dead, two men—Tonil (good looking, arrogant, focused on social media influencer-wannabe, esceptial about everything he cannot see) and David (insecure chubby guy who tries to follow and imitate Tonil but with good heart, superstitious, scared of consequences) —arrive at the reception desk. They are twin brothers who turn out to be the sons her father fathered with another woman before he was with her mother. They claim the hotel's ownership, and the lawyers for both parties reach an agreement regarding the transfer of the business, subject to certain conditions.

There will be a fee of 2 euros to cover Meetup expenses.