Week 1 : How to create an initial outline?
Step 1 Write down Ideas
1. A girl who easily falls for the first guy who says I love you
2. She comes from a too protective family
3. Fights for her independence from family.
4. Has learn how to be independent while looking after 3 kids
Step 2 Draw the plot
Maggy is a lovely girl who grew up sheltered by her family, and she is bubbly friendly and too trusting.
Her mother Mary grew up an orphan, so she loved her children too much and kept Maggy and her siblings too close. Only allowing them to play with each other.
As Maggy grew up, saw the lives of her school friends and wanted to live the same as other children. By asking her parents to loosen their hold on her a little.
At university she ended up moving from relationship to relationship and having 3 kids from 3 different fathers.
Now she has to take care of the kids while making her own way in the world.
Step 3
Scene 1 Maggy's departure
Everyone is happy that Maggy will be going to university accept her mother. Her father is planning a barbecue and inviting their extended family to celebrate Maggy's achievement. Maggy's mother keeps on lamenting about who's gonna take care of Maggy once she goes to university.
Scene 2 Living life at University
Maggy focuses on her studies but also tries to be social like all the other students. By going to parties with her roommate, getting a boyfriend and learning how to play like an adult. Trying to keep her independence with her mother always on the phone wanting to know every detail of her life.
Step 3 Back home with babies
Maggy didnt get to finish her first year at school as she got pregnant and had to come back home. She struggles but tries again with another university but comes back with another child. Maggy's mother worried about her child makes her stay at home for good. Then she has last child, moves out and tries to make the single mom thing work for her.