| Title: R&r Author: A.D. Nicholas Bundt Author's E-mail: [email protected] Current Word Count: 48,628 (Only complete chapters counted) Current Page Count: 93 (single spaced, 12 font) Summary: R&r is a story about a person named Derek Baum, who unwillingly crashes in on two females at their home. Bleeding to death and roughed up beyond anything the girls have seen, the roommates are kind enough (or forced) to take him in. As Derek slowly recovers, the girls, Ellie Thompson and Wren Lydel, start to wonder about their guest. Why are the police after him? Why did he choose their house? Why can he not remember what happened to him a few days before? When will he leave? Planned length: 51 Chapters (550 pages) About the project: Written by Nicholas Bundt, founder of A.D. Writing, R&r is a comedy/drama. R&r is a project built from the smallest amount of pre-production process possible. The idea behind the lack of planning was to bring out the characters and not having to adhere to a solid path. Life is unpredictable, and so should the tone, actions, and dialogue of the characters. The novel was planned as a slice-of-life drama, but it quickly turned into a more stylized work. I would like to say R&r was not inspired by the manga series Love Hina, but that would be lying. Love Hina taught me that a romantic comedy can be just as absorbing and entertaining as anything else, regardless of how thorough the plot is or is not, or the characters real or absurb. Love Hina inspired me to create something entertaining and absorbing, where people cared for the characters and the audience was on the same journey the characters were on. A story that put readers on edge and wanting everything to turn out great in the end. Thus R&r started. Though, R&r was not fully created from that inspiration. It also is an elaboration on a short story concept that I created a long time ago. The concept involved two guys and a girl that kept coming over to their home. Obviously, R&r became only loosely based on that story. I may write that story later... R&r follows the format of all A.D. Writing works. The format allows a reader to read one chapter a week/day/year/whatnot and still have an entertaining story within that chapter. Included with each chapter is a preview for next chapter and recap of last chapter. Each chapter plans to have a small story arc to it and hopefully constructed to stand decently on its own. Though I know some chapters will stand alone better than others (Ex. Chapter 1 being able to stand alone better than Chapter 2), the arc in each and every chapter will hopefully make them no so dependant on the last chapter. (Ex. Chapter 1 has the "Who is the man that hit Wren" and "Cheering Wren up" arcs, while Chapter 2 has the "Three segments style" and "The stranger recalling his side of the story" arcs. Chapter 1's arcs give Chapter 1 the ability to act more like a short story than Chapter 2 does) So, each chapter will be entertaining to read in and of themselves. Plus, not only one chapter will have an arc to it, I'll have multiple chapter story arcs as well (Ex. "Where Wren's business cards went"). This'll give readers that draw-in as well quick satisfaction when the arcs end, before the main plot climaxes. Hopefully, sluggish readers will be pulled to the end of the novel better than just promising or eluding to a strong main climax. So, multiple chapters will be able to be read weekly that tells a story while adding to the overall plot. When a new reader comes into the story 20 chapters in, they have a way to catch up quickly than read one chapter a day. When multiple chapters are finished, someone can read multiple chapters at once and skip the recap and preview, viewing the novel as a seamless novel. Overall, the format is a novel that can be read as its being written. R&r's 51 chapters will span two years of story time. The title is open to interpretation. The characters will not get much R&r, so the obvious meaning is less ideal. The title's image has some clairification, but there are two meanings to that phrase as well. Enjoy! ^.^ The characters are a personality mix of my friends, my family, and myself. 
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Floor plans    *Not to scale* • Emphasized words are italicized. • Though dialogue is italicized."And placed in quotations." • Characters that are not present within the narrative speak in italics. • Dates and time changes are italicized. • Dialogue that is said under one's breath, -man, this is crazy- is both italicized and have dashes at the beginning and end of the statement. < Top>
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