The Tween Detectives - Oct. Prep Month

October 1st, 2017 - Premise

Oct. 01: - Premise ▼

(1) Protagonist(s). Who is(are) your main character(s)?
(2) Flaw(s). What is(are) the protagonist's major flaw(s)?
(3) Goal(s). What does the protagonist want?
(4) Conflict(s). What is keeping them from their goal?
(5) Antagonist(s). Who or what is creating the conflict?
(6) Premise. Write a provocative one-sentence description of your story.
Example: "A young, mistreated orphan discovers he is a wizard and must face the evil villain Voldemort to fulfill his destiny."

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(1) Protagonist(s). Who is(are) your main character(s)?

There are four Tween Detectives. They include Rebecca Wingate, Nora Lancing, Brandon Grande, and Jasper Atkinson.

(2) Flaw(s). What is(are) the protagonist's major flaw(s)?

They have a lot of flaws. And they include curiosity, not giving up until they unmask the phony ghost or ghosts, not being afraid, and seeking out the danger in the pursuit of finding out what is really going on with the phony ghost or ghost.

(3) Goal(s). What does the protagonist want?

The Tween Detectives want to know what is really going on with The Mansion on Top of the Mountain. They know it’s not the real ghost that haunts there.

(4) Conflict(s). What is keeping them from their goal?

Visitors to one of the most popular haunted house, or in this case mansion, are disappearing. Where are they? Why is it only visitors? That’s just a couple of questions that The Tween Detectives want the answers to.

(5) Antagonist(s). Who or what is creating the conflict?

Whoever it is that is making these visitors disappear. And I’m not going to tell you that until the end of the novel.

(6) Premise. Write a provocative one-sentence description of your story.

Thousands of visitors come to Middletown KS for the tour of The Mansion on Top of the Mountain, especially during October, but this year those visitors are disappearing, and The Tween Detectives want to know why.