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A Mary Sue version of me with a plotbunny.
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Title: Fortune Cookie Bridge
Genre: Fiction. I'd hate for it to be YA, but what else could I write?
Other important characters: 6
Cool fixed background on website: in place
Last year: Won, around 52k with 2 days to spare. Didn't finish novel.
Went nearly insane? Yes. Around week 2.
Mental/emotional breakdown so far? One
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MC Emilie Zhou.
Narrator of story (first person) Traits: Intellectual, sarcastic, stoic, curious Likes: People-watching, tennis, Italian food, learning about China and Chinese Dislikes: Kevin (at times), romantic idealism Quirks: unconsciously cuts off any of Sean's attempts at real conversation, doesn't even consider the fact that he might like her |
Emilie's younger brother Kevin
Traits: nerdy Things that he enjoys: spouting various facts about robots, anything Japanese What he doesn't like: Being Chinese Quirk: thinks that China is stupid and that everything cool is in Japan, takes any and every opportunity to lecture about robots |
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Emilie's friend Jennifer Li
Traits: romantic idealist, really good at Chinese, independent, smart Things that she enjoys: playing violin, reading chick lit, watching Chinese and Korean TV dramas Quirks: Pursues romance, and sees it in people when they're in love and even when they're not, complete opposite of Emilie |
Jennifer Li's brother Sean
Traits: athletic, good looking Other: 18, can speak Chinese very well, but can't write or read it, likes Emilie, heading to college in the fall What he doesn't know: that he has no chance with Emilie because she's emotionless and will never understand that he likes her |
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Dmitri Volkov
Traits: Other:
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Katarina Anderson
Emilie's best friend in America Goes by "Kat" Traits: intellectual- ranges from genius to eccentric, orange hair that's messy, but not in an unattractice way, opinionated Other: adds the word "sexy" under the definition of "nerd", breaks boys' hearts for fun and profit
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