Exercise for Edition-3

Plot :  Leo

Judges: Radha Sawana, Medha Kapoor & Leo

Exercise:

The story is about a married couple nearing their second anniversary, Deepak and Sandhya, who love each other a lot.

Deepak is a politician, who is tipped to be a minister once he wins the elections from his constituency. He is running a clean campaign, going to the localities in the constituency and asking for what they need, how they can be helped etc. and not just making blank promises. During one of the campaigns, he finds out that Sandhya was a patient at the mental home in the locality, which was hidden from him before the wedding.

Sandhya is the silent supportive wife, who is happy with the rich, luxurious life that she is having. One day, she finds a photograph of Deepak with another woman in a romantic pose. She is livid and her past anger and mental illness start to resurface, but being the loving wife, she is unsure what to do. What if the photograph was taken before her marriage or if someone is blackmailing him?

In alternating scenes, written in both Sandhya and Deepak's voice in first person, the challenge is to set the story, bring out their thoughts, their love for each other and dilemma in deciding what to do. 

Whatever way the story flows, it must end in a final scene written in third person, where Deepak and Sandhya are there together, and are talking.
 

Rules for Exercise 3:

1. Till the final scene, the point of view must alternate in scenes. i.e. if you are doing first person from Sandhya's POV in scene 1, it must be Deepak's POV in scene 2, Sandhya's POV in scene 3 etc. The final scene must be in a third person POV.

2. No major characters other than Sandhya and Deepak must be present in the storyline.

3. The story should not have any loose ends when it concludes

4. Word range: 2500 to 4000 words.

General ground rules:

1. The entry has to be sent by e-mail to the workshop e-mail id posted on FB along with Exercise declaration. 

2. The entry should be in the body of the mail. Do not send as attachment.

3. The body of the mail should contain (in order): Title of story, Author Name, Author Intro, Story. If an entry is not complete in all respects it shall not be considered a valid entry.

4. The post shall be carried in this blog. You are required to post in your blog either a link to your post on this blog or your entire post with a link to your post on this blog and give accreditation to Leo for the plot line. Once your entry is put up, the link to your entry shall be put up on the Indifiction group in FB – and within 48 hours of the link being put up on FB, you are requested to post in your blog and intimate the post link on FB. Otherwise, your entry shall be taken down from the blog.

5. The judges’ decision shall be final and the winners will be required to give the plot line, critique every entry as well as declare the winners of the next edition (Exercise 4). The judges of the previous edition – Sandeep, Deepa and Indolent - shall not be declared as winners in this edition even if their entries happen to be the best. This is in order to ensure that the load of judging does not fall disproportionately on a few.

6. Though it is not obligatory, we do request everyone to take the time to read and give constructive criticism on as many posts as they can possibly manage.

Timelines for Exercise 3:

Exercise 3 begins: Saturday, 17th November 2012

Exercise 3 concludes: Sunday, 16th December 2012, 11:59PM

Exercise 3 results/judges comments: Sunday, 23rd December 2012

Exercise 4 begins: Sunday 30th December 2012