Darkness Falls

Plot: Premise Revision (DF)

(1) Settings: Where does your story take place? North Texas near Fort Worth & Dallas. A small parenthesis is in Savannah, Georgia, during his college years. (from #15 - Settings List)

(2) Protagonist: Who is your main character? Rally Witts.
(2b) Flaw: What is the protagonist's major flaw? Pride. Living for self,
apart from the Lord.
(2c) Goal: What does the protagonist want to do? Rally wants to live his
whole life as the world's greatest artist, living in a mansion,
doing whatever he wants to do all day long because of his art.

(3) Conflict: What's keeping him from his goal? His blindness. Will blindness be his undoing or his greatest blessing?

(4) Antagonists: Who and what is creating the conflicts? The personality of Rally's 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Karen Tumech, turned him into a driven perfectionist. He was never satisfied with even his greatest level of success as a graphic artist. Blindness destroyed him every day, until he was met by Jesus Christ, the Lord. Becoming a Christian gave a better and greater level of sight than he had ever known before. His art was totally transformed, and he fell asleep in the Arms of Jesus as an artist forever.

(5) Resolution: How does it all turn out in the end? Rally & Jessie are transformed into Christians. They get married. They live the rest of their lives as artists, though what kind of artists, and how they make art will be discovered as I write the story.

(6) Theme: What is the theme and moral of the story? Living for Self starts well, but ends badly. Living for the Lord often starts badly, but it always ends well.

(7) Outline: The order of the outline/timeline points can be adjusted, but the main point is that Rally Witts started out life as a proud artist with amazing skills, who needed no one, but himself while sighted, but once he lost his sight, he came to the end of himself, realizing that Only the Lord can make any life truly valuable with giftings, that no human can see without the Vision of the Lord Himself.

Timeline:

1. Begin with the height of his career.
2. Show the disaster incident.
3. Flashback to beginning greatness & Destructive 2nd Grade.
4. Zoom forward to present day, highlighting Rally's rise to greatness.
5. Present Day: Depression and recovery
6. Reassessment of Life: What skills remain & what resources are available to Rally.
7. Transformation: Salvation & New Art in Sanctification
8. Aging & Foundation for Future Generations