Tuesday 6 May 2014

Man Wanted Outline

For those that might be interested, here is the original outline for Man Wanted.

Much of it is as the story panned out but you'll notice that the outline goes on past the point the story actually ended. Originally I wrote it as a straight transformation story, just exploring the different aspects of the change. As it turned out, Sangeeta became such a magnetic character that the romance between her and Geoff superseded everything else.

I decided to mix things up by introducing Billy and bringing the story to a climax earlier as I felt it would drag on and become repetative as originally planned.

Anyway, here you go. Comment below to let me know if you enjoy seeing this kind of thing.




A Woman in Need of a Man - Outline


Day One – Tuesday


Establish femininity of Alison

Establish doing up house and having difficulty

Out of work but inherited fixer upper. Can barely afford to do it up

Buys gender change ring 

Initial change

Short experimentation (fixes electricity) then changes back

Interacts with neighbour who is patronising. She is shy and overly compromising

Considers how she might have stood up to him if she’d been a man

Day Two – Wednesday


Frustration of not being able to do things

Second change

Enjoyment of doing work

Sets record straight with Mr Crabtree

Other neighbour, John, notices and congratulates him

Wants to interact with others

Goes out for a drink

Runs into John and they chat about Geoff doing up the house

Geoff leaves the back way and sees some national front yobs hassling an Indian woman

He intercedes but realises he’s bitten off more than he can chew

They beat him up as he fights them off but Sangeeta gets help from inside and a couple of men come out to chase off the skinheads

Sangeeta takes Geoff into the pub next door to buy him a drink of thanks

Day Three – Thursday


Wakes up next morning, shocked to have stayed male

Changes right back – still sports bra and panties from day before

Doesn’t feel right being female at first but feels more normal later

Goes out and has spa but feels impatient

Thinks about change

Gets nails done in Sangeeta’s beauty parlour

Goes shopping for clothes but ends up in men’s department

Buys double extra large clothes just in case she decides to change again

Goes home determined not to change again

Does work but finds it too difficult

Changes “just for a bit” and ends up staying that way for the rest of the day

Neighbour sees him working and offers him paid work following day

Invites him to pub to watch rugby

Gets changed and watches Six Nations rugby game at the pub with John and some other friends then sees Sangeeta again

She comments on his shirt

In the break she tells him that her business isn’t doing too well and that the Indian bloke, Rasheed, has come to Nockton Vale to stay with her

She’s told him she’s not interested but he just wants to be “friends”

Rasheed turns up

Geoff has a friendlyish talk with him

Sangeeta is flattered that she has Geoff to stand up for her

Geoff ends up snogging her

Feeling a crisis, Geoff changes back in the toilet but is trapped when she comes in looking for him – has to turn into a man again

Sangeeta recognises that he is tense and reassures him that she’s not expecting them to get married or anything. She just wants a bit of fun for now

Geoff uses that as a justification

They kiss again, more sweetly and it becomes a long and passionate snog

They leave together

Sangeeta stops at a convenience store on the way to get some secret things

They go back to the house

Sangeeta shaves Geoff, leaving a goatee

They shag

Day Four – Friday


Geoff wakes up from a deep sleep

Sangeeta has gone early, leaving a note.

She doesn’t have her uniform and has a meeting with the Tower Gates manager that morning

Geoff justifies staying a man because of the job today

Looks at documentation that has both his names down as owners

In the mail there is a bank statement with his male name but other stuff for Alison

There are some men’s clothes

Remembers the hair cream

There are now loads of men’s things in the bathroom cabinet

 

Does the plastering

 

They have a game of rugby

Gets another job offer from friend of neighbour

Talks over a beer and decides to set up business as a workman to keep the cash flowing in

 

Trades in car for a masculine van

 

Worries that it is going too far and changes back to Alison for the evening

 

Feels very uncomfortable as a woman

Rasheed comes round (followed them home the night before) to confront Geoff

 

He intimidates Alison

Alison wants to change but resists

 

Sangeeta calls round and is suspicious of her, wanting to see Geoff

Alison says she’s Geoff’s sister

Rasheed says he’s been talking to Jasper Konig, the landlord of Sangeeta’s flat and shop. He has a couple lined up who he can charge more for so he’ll be happy if Sangeeta moves out right away. She could move back to London – her business is failing anyway

Angry he stuck his nose in, Sangeeta kicks out Rasheed who says he is going to tell her father

 

Alison is attracted to her but resists changing into Geoff

She tells Sangeeta to leave, saying Geoff has told her he’s not interested

Sangeeta is very upset but leaves mentioning something really bad happened to her today and she wanted to talk to Geoff about it

 

Alison is worried that she’s changing too much and decides not to wear the ring again

She feels awful about Sangeeta

Just before bed she desperately wants to put the ring on and have a wank. She misses her cock and knows it would make her feel better. Also things don’t bother her as much when she’s a man  (and she thinks she might go after Sangeeta and get her back – secretly wanting to)

She thinks about just putting it on for that but it afraid she won’t want to take it off if she does

Day Five – Saturday


Next day, Alison feels mostly feminine again apart from a brief missing of her penis when going to the loo

Realises she’s made a terrible mistake of the hair

Dresses as femininely as possible

Drives van, finding it weird

Goes into town and gravitates to Sangeeta’s parlour, wanting to apologise

Sangeeta is closing for lunch

Alison apologises and Sangeeta invites her to lunch

 

They have a lovely time together

They talk about her failing business and Rasheed

Sangeeta says she’s falling for Geoff but doesn’t know why he keeps pulling away

Alison is falling for Sangeeta too

Alison empties her handbag to find purse and puts ring on table

Near miss with ring – Sangeeta recognises it and almost puts it on – gets tingle

 

Rasheed turns up and puts the pressure on

Alison sticks up for Sangeeta

Sangeeta tells him to get lost

Rasheed refuses to go.

Her father is on his way to London by plane

Sangeeta has to go back to work

 

Alison goes home and fantasises about sex with Sangeeta as Geoff. It becomes sex with Sangeeta with her as Geoff

Realises she just wants to be with her. She doesn’t have a long term plan but she wants to see her again – as Geoff

 

Geoff calls Sangeeta to come round

She is angry about being messed around

He says he just wants to see her

 

Goes and works on Steve’s boiler, doing a great job

 

Cooks Sangeeta dinner

Geoff tells her he can’t commit but does really like her

Sangeeta tells him the manager of Tower Gates has upped the rent and she can’t stay afloat. She told him to go and fuck himself and hasn’t had a customer since. She thinks the business is over with. She might not bother opening again

Could Geoff stand up for her or suggest an alternative?

Sangeeta asks if she can stay over to avoid Rasheed  

Shags her

Day Six – Sunday


Invites Sangeeta to spend the day while he is working on the house, knowing it will stop him changing back

Spends time doing up car with money from plastering

Really enjoys being waited on

Takes Sangeeta out dancing

The dad’s still on his way. He will be in Nocton Vale tomorrow

Takes Sangeeta home, planning to drop her off but can’t resist going in

Shags her

Wonders if he’s doing the right thing

Changes back to Alison in the bathroom

Realises she still has her dick

Has to change back when Sangeeta knocks on the door

Tries to get away, afraid of how much more she’ll change but Sangeeta tries to persuade her to stay

She resists and leaves, changing back outside

Rasheed confronts her saying he thought he saw Geoff come out

He bullies her because he says she’s encouraging Sangeeta to reject him

Alison changes back to Geoff and beats him up

Sangeeta catches them and is angry at both of them

Geoff storms off

He doesn’t change back at home because he didn’t like feeling weak

Worries about keeping the cock but is afraid to take the ring off

Day Seven – Monday


Wakes up as a man (surprised – he’d planned to change back) and wants to change back but has to do job

Goes home at lunch and takes off ring

Still has cock and hairy belly

Phone rings – job related – guy pissed off he’s left half way through the day

Still talks like a man

Pretends to be Geoff

Gets off phone and realises it has to stop

Turns round – Rasheed is there

He says he knew it but didn’t believe it. Now he does

She begs him not to tell anyone but he sneers and leaves

She waits to see if she will change back to a woman but hours later she still hasn’t

She wants comfort and wants to call Sangeeta and see her but is afraid what might happen if she changes again

In the end she calls Sangeeta and talks with her man’s voice, pretending to be Geoff

Sangeeta’s dad has arrived in England. He wants her to meet him at the station next day at noon

She wants Geoff to come

Alison is evasive, not wanting to risk changing again 

Sangeeta realises something is wrong and suspects the worst, getting angry

Sangeeta demands to see Geoff that night but he has to refuse  

Sangeeta bursts into tears and puts the phone down, saying she is really confused

She really wants to put the ring back on and at least feel normal – go to Sangeeta – but she manages to resist

Sangeeta turns up – with Rasheed. She knows

Alison confirms it

They reconcile with the magic

Alison shows her cock to confirm

Rasheed sneers but Sangeeta tells him to piss off

(Rasheed needs to get some comeuppance later)

She asks if Alison still loves her

Alison says she wants to but she can’t

She really likes Sangeeta but she isn’t sure she can give up being a woman for her

Sangeeta leaves

Alison goes to bed, terrified she is going to be a freak or a man for the rest of her life

Day Eight – Tuesday


Next morning she is back to her normal self but still feels wrong being a woman

She’s tempted to put the ring back on but fears she will never want to change back to a woman if she does.

She goes through a thought process about that

There is little in the house of Alison’s now. She is clearly being erased from existence

Sangeeta calls and leaves a message saying she is leaving town with her dad at noon

Alison can’t pick up the phone because she will talk like a woman

She does anyway but makes it worse

She goes to throw the ring in the river but sees the train coming into the station and can’t go through with it

She realises she’s a much better person as a man with a good job and a loving girlfriend – that’s who she wants to be

She runs toward the train but realises she isn’t going to make it

She gets onto the station and races to climb aboard but can’t open the doors

The train leaves

It turns out Sangeeta got off and is on the platform

Alison says she wants to be with Sangeeta

Sangeeta says “Who’s asking?”

Alison changes into Geoff. “Me.”

They embrace and kiss

Alison Character Traits


Very flouncy

Feminine clothes

Always wears heels

Geoff Character Traits


Believes women are weaker and need protecting and aren’t as good as men

Slightly racist

Alison History


Grew up in Chauncy but grew to hate the town because there was something creepy about it – something insidious she couldn’t put her finger on

Moved to Peterborough to go to university and stayed there

Had a series of bad relationships where she felt used

She didn’t fall in love with any of them but really wanted to

Started dress-making business but struggled to get it going

Recession made it crumble

Was relieved when it stopped making money and she had to give it up because of the release of pressure

Sangeeta History


Sent to England as a teenager to stay with uncle and aunt because she “fell in love” with a boy from a lower caste

She actually went with him as a rejection of her parents’ culture

They gave her what she wanted

Moved out when she turned eighteen and worked her way through a beauty course

Decided to stand on her own no matter what

Her dad, via the uncle started putting pressure on her to marry an Indian man

She moved to Nockton Vale to avoid this

Since then they have put more and more pressure on her through her family and friends

Had a love affair with an English man who really messed her around, taking a lot of the shine off her adventure

Her business has been starting to fail and she’s been considering giving in and going back to London – maybe even back to India

4 comments:

  1. I like it. it is still at heart a romance. I guess the Alison/Geoff-Sangeeta connection was even more magnetic than you thought. :)

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    1. Yeah. This version laboured the point of whether she should swap back or not a bit too much. I didn't like the way she was blowing hot and cold so much with Sangeeta.

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  2. Did you write all this before you wrote the story itself? I've tried to do the same but in some cases the characters seem to go off at a tangent without my permission :)

    Robi

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    1. Yes I did pretty much. I added a bit of extra detail as I went on. The characters did take it in new directions. Billy didn't exist initially and Sangeeta ended up being bigger than planned.

      I would recommend reading How to Write the Blockbuster Novel by Al Zimmerman for advice on Outlining. It can't be beaten.

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