The Outline
1. Link back to who tagged you2. Share the Graphic on your blog3. Share the Outline on your post4. Share a detail you love about the season of summer into fall5. List at least 7 random/ specific things YOU love to read about in books, big or small6. Tag 7 people who would enjoy taking part/whose answers you are curious to read!
Here we go!
First off, it's no longer summer or fall, but one thing I love about the change of seasons when autumn finally hits here sometime in October is that my creativity takes a big boost!
Now for my seven specific little things I love in a book:
1
Escape from wrongful imprisonment
This sounds terrible, but I LOVE it when a character gets accused of a crime they didn't commit and gets sent to prison for it... and then escapes. Prison escapes in general are something I love a lot, but when it's from a prison sentence they didn't deserve? Gimme gimme gimme.
An example: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2
Band of brothers
If you give me a group of guys who are mostly unrelated but just act like brothers, look after each other like brothers, basically consider each other brothers -- I'm all over it.
An example: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
3
Surviving on a deserted island
Stories of having to survive using only what you have around you will always grab me. I love seeing how ingenious people can be, even fictional people.
A couple examples: The Black Stallion by Walter Farley, The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
4
Exploring abandoned spaces
I love abandoned spaces in general, and having characters explore or discover one in a book is always going to draw my attention!
An example: Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
5
A woman tries to seduce a guy, and he tells her to get lost
Is there anything more wonderful? And the harder she is trying to get him into bed, the more awesome it is when he refuses.
An example: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
6
Antagonistic opposites become friends
Friendships in fiction are usually more compelling to me than romances, and when you get two people who don't like each other and are nothing like each other, but then they have to work together and slowly become friends -- so, so good!
An example: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
7
Amnesia
Why is amnesia such a fun plot point? I don't even know why I love it, but I do. Maybe I've just forgotten why?
An example: The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
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