Snowflake Method - Expanded Proposal/Summary

The next step in the Snowflake Method is to take the one-page synopsis and expand it to a four-page synopsis. Here is my take on expanding the first paragraph of the shorter synposis:

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Nick Aceret is a crime novelist with a penchant for creating characters who are more than they seem to be on the page. He doesn’t realize his characters have a tendency to become more than he created him to be. Take Millie – short for Millicent Marianna Freedman – for example. Who would have thought that a one-dimensional character who barely appeared in three scenes in one novel would have the audacity, let alone the ability, to force another author’s essence out of said author’s body and move her own essence in? Millie’s freedom from the character realm only lasted a few months, and the team from the Asylum for Miscreant Characters was able to return the author to her rightful body, but still – who’d have thought this type of situation was possible at all?

Keep in mind, Millie was one of dozens of less notable characters who existed for a few scenes here or there in Nick’s Diabolical Soul crime series. Nick also created Malcolm Price, the antagonist in the series, and Marlena Kevan, a character used as a foil for Malcolm until she was written off the page at the end of the third novel. Or so Nick thought. Marlena had actually developed over the course of the three novels to a point that Malcolm saw her as a serious threat, and influenced Nick to write her out of the series. Neither Nick nor Marlena realized what was happening to them due to Malcolm’s influence!

After the incident with Millie, Tracey Averdue, an agent with the Character Stabilization Unit at the Asylum, studied the flow of Nick’s series, noting where Malcolm had encouraged Millie’s delusions of grandeur as well as how he managed to get Marlena written off the page. Agent Averdue also discovered Malcolm’s plot to switch places with Nick and brought this to the attention of Mr. Von Schutzel, the director of the Asylum.

Mr. Von Schutzel attempted to gain Nick’s attention and inform him of Malcolm’s machinations, but to no avail. Nick was deep in the throes of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on this particular novel, hell, this particular series, and nothing was going to distract him from reaching that light! Nick put Von Schutzel’s voice in his head down to lack of sleep, overcaffeination, and finally letting go of the character who had been his bread and butter for the last ten years.