Creative Outlining.

I) Introduction
a) Meet paul at home
b) Meet Sally at home
c) Paul and Sally meet
d) Paul and Sally decide to have an adventure meeting friends along the way
e) Minor drama amongst the group ensues
f) The group overcomes difficulty to become a stronger unit.

II) Climax
a) Paul and sally get into trouble
b) Paul and sally with the help of their friends get out of trouble
c) The group finds their way home.

III) Conclussion
a) Paul and Sally return to their origins
b) Nothing much else has changed in their lives.
c) They lose touch with each other and die alone.

Paul is sitting at home on the couch watching television, it’s a dreary afternoon and he’s quite bored. Paul has been doing pretty much the same thing every day for the last month and he is thoroughly sick of it. Today something different will happen he decides! He gets up off of the couch, put on his pants and a coat and goes for a walk. He walks all over the town he lives in, uptown, downtown, midtown, even cross-town. He thinks that it’s pretty much exactly the same as it was last month when the desire to do something different came over him last.

Sally is doing yoga. Not out of any desire to get fit, or be healthy, but it is something that she knows how to do and it passes the time. After her yoga, she has a shower and gets her running clothes on. Sally always goes for a run after doing yoga because it makes her feel good. That’s pretty much her only motivation in life; feel good. Fortunately Sally is a nice person and the things that make her feel good are fairly harmless. Sally likes to run and eat good food, and work at her job, and give generously to her favourite charities.

At a corner street in this small town, right where midtown meets cross town, Paul is sitting on a conveniently placed park bench, watching people as they move past him. A girl that Paul thinks is quite attractive runs past, so he whistles at her. It is impulsive, and not the sort of thing that Paul normally does, but he cannot un-whistle at this girl.

Sally notices the boy on the park bench as she runs past, and when he whistles at her she is shocked. This rude person needs to learn that it is impolite to whistle suggestively at defenseless women who are running through the streets. She turns around and returns to Paul where she promptly slaps him across the face. “That what you get, you rude boy!” she says as he holds his cheek in pain.

“I’m sorry,” says Paul, “My name is Paul and I just think that you’re a very attractive lady and I didn’t know that you would slap me and I’m really sorry will you go for a walk with me tomorrow?” The words tumble out of Paul’s mouth too fast and Paul regrets them as soon as he says them, expecting at the very least a sound rejection, and possibly another slap.

Sally does not slap Paul, or even reject him, instead she says. “You can come for a run with me tomorrow if you like. If you are ever rude to me again, however, I will slap you again and we will not be friends. You can meet me here at eleven thirty in the morning.” Sally smiles a little bit and then continues running.
Paul is amazed that this has happened, and also somewhat concerned that he’s planning on going for a run with what appears to be a very fit person tomorrow. He is certain that he will be incredibly embarrassed in short order. He goes home to think about what he’s just done.

It is the next morning now; Paul is putting on his shoes and attempting to mentally prepare for the run that he, somewhat foolishly perhaps, agreed to. He knows that no matter how prepared he is mentally for this excursion, he is in no way physically prepared for it. “Fuck,” he says as he locks his apartment door behind him. “Fuck,” he says as he gets on the bus that will take him to his destination where midtown and crosstown meet; Where he is going to meet Sally.

“Fuck,” says Sally as she pulls herself to her feet. She has overstretched one of her yoga positions and something in her leg is now quite sore. Sally decides that it won’t be necessary to visit a doctor, and that a nice walk will help alleviate the discomfort. She leaves her apartment and heads out on her usual route.

As Sally approaches a particular corner she realizes that she is supposed to be running with the boy she met yesterday, Paul. She alters her course so that she will arrive on time. When she meets Paul he is pacing anxiously. He sees Sally and smiles, but it is quite obvious that he is expecting something bad to happen. He thinks that may have been a plot by Sally to humiliate him extra hard for his whistling the previous day. He has decided that she is going to laugh at him for actually showing up and perhaps slap him some more for being a silly moron. He is wrong of course. Sally sees Paul and smiles back. She approaches him and sits down on the bench near him. “I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to run with you today.” She says, and Paul winces in anticipation, “I’ve hurt myself doing yoga, how about we just walk instead.”

Paul is stunned, he had expected rejection outright and thought that even in the best case scenario he would have to do a lot of exercise before humiliating himself and eventually getting rejected anyways though possibly not beat up.

I got to about I) c) before I kind of faded out. Boo!