The Dioramist
Logline
The titular character in Eric Keegan’s The Dioramist is in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. When a friend suggests that he begin writing down his inner thoughts, hopes, and dreams, our hero sets off on an adventure that shows him a new passion in life.
Genre
Funny,Drama
Short Summary
The unnamed protagonist takes to his creative writing and begins making it just as much a priority as his career in writing for the local newspaper. With his stream-of-consciousness style, he bleeds wandering thoughts onto the blank page and sets up his own form of self-therapy.
The Dioramist is no longer reeling from his war-torn relationship and creative struggles. He uses this journal to thrust himself into a life of less questionable uncertainty and more real life exposure.
Setting
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
Based on a True Story
No
Plot - Premise
Internal Journey/Rebirth
Plot - Other Elements
Coming of Age
Mature Audience Themes
Information not completed
Main Character Details
Name: Wesley Shipp (unnamed until the very end of story)
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Aspiring,Adventurous,Selfless,Engaging,Funny,Romantic,Sophisticated,Underdog
Additional Character Details
Name: Elizian
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Role: Antagonist
Key Traits: Aggressive,Complex,Blunt,Empathetic,Outspoken,Romantic
Additional Character Details
Name: Janja Coerberg
Age: Sixties
Gender: Female
Role: mentor
Key Traits: Masculine,Badass,Confident,Engaging
Additional Character Details
The author has not yet written this
Development Pitch
The Dioramist, while fictional, does portray some aspects of my own life and the novel in and of itself was the end result of my own creative struggles. I guess you could say that there's a bit of irony behind it all. It's a swift, light-on-your-feet type journey that has no beginning, middle, or end. Each journal entry is a fragmented vignette that could be broadcast out even further if transcribed into a visual format. I wrote the manuscript almost like I was writing a screenplay, but without following any of the actual guidelines. Most coming-of-age stories revolve around characters that are just out of high school or are getting ready to graduate. Today's generations, known wholesomely as the boomerang generations, usually don't begin to piece things together until their mid-twenties. Far different from what our parents and their parents were thrust into after high school. What we see in this story is a love-struck unnamed protagonist who can't let go of two things: his wandering, inky typewriter thoughts and the woman he loves who he never really had to begin with. The conclusion of the tale doesn't end with any finite validation that the hero rides off into the eternal sunset with his serendipitous lass, or the promise of a writing career, or much of anything really. It merely ends with the one thing that people of a certain any-something age all want and desire...the proverbial road map that will get them to the next life chapter locale.