Research and development of my project.
For my media project, I so far managed to write a first draft of the story. The plot takes place in a small village and circles around the protagonist named Tom whose father just died. The story timeline takes place within a couple of days and consists of three parts; death, wake, and funeral. First of all one of the things I want to try with this story is using leitmotiv. I researched Susan Bell's book 'The artful edit (2008). Bell suggests searching out thematic symbols and gingerly sew them into a coherent, barely visible pattern. Laid in with a light touch, leitmotiv can act like a refrain that keeps bringing the reader back to your central theme. As for my story, I'm thinking to use the leitmotiv of a bottle cap that once screwed on the bottle would represent the end of a certain period within the character, perhaps a change. Here is a paragraph from my first draft, I will make sure to upload more in the next post. ...

Good work here - some good initial research and ideas
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