[SleepingDragon]: 268.Novel Writing Workshop.Statement Sheet

The genre of the novel I am creating is...

Mainstream- Humour/satire

Target length 65,000 -100,000 words
Manuscript legnth = 260-400 pages

Lead- Patrick Sullivan (Name subject to change) Late twenties-early thirties. Is overweight.

Crisis- After veiwing an infomercial for a 'total gym workout machine', (hosted by famous couple Clive Morris and Trixie Bricker), fat couple Patrick and his wife Samantha joke that they want those bodies. Stumbling into a shop who deals in ancient artifacts, they inadvertantly 'buy' themselves a wish. Thinking this is a joke, they wish for the bodies of Clive Morris and Trixie Bricker. They awake the next morning to find out they do indeed have the new bodies but that they have switched genders!

Goal- The obvious goal here is for the pair to get their wishes 'fixed' or to get get changed back, since both are now without jobs (no one recognizes them and no one on earth is going to believe what happened.)This is complicated by the fact that the shop where they saw the artifact is not only now closed, but appears as an abandon building. *Gasp* It seems it was never there to begin with. Somehow, they have to find that salesman who sold them the wishes! In the meantime they have to find a way to survive and adjust to the changes in thier lives.