English Thesis Outline

I'm doing the fiction writing option for my senior thesis, which means rewriting and pulling together The End of Days. And I keep switching back and forth between school computers and my laptop, and forgetting my outlines, so I'm going to be sticking things here so I can keep track of them a little better.

( the end of days )

i. POV: Reed
ii. Reed-Tlazotzin
iii. Modern-day NYC

b. Two — Khatma meets Tsuya

i. POV: Tsuya
ii. Khatma-Tsuya
iii. Desert by a polluted ocean

c. Three — Reed and Tlazotzin meet Eiri

i. POV: Reed
ii. Eiri-Tlazotzin
iii. Rice paddies with thatched houses and ponies
iv. Eiri is hysterical

d. Four — Khatma and Tsuya meet Partim

i. POV: Partim
ii. Khatma-Partim
iii. TBD

e. Five — Violet wanders around

i. POV: Violet
ii. Original black; nuclear winter city; Iron Age hill fort

f. Six — Reed meets Violet and brings her back to Tlazotzin and Eiri

i. POV: Reed
ii. Reed-Violet; Eiri-Tlazotzin
iii. Towering futuristic steel city with huge AR-64s

g. Seven — Khatma and company travel and start to figure things out

i. POV: Khatma
ii. Khatma- Partim-Tsuya
iii. Cave system; city in the cliffs; Colorado River

h. Eight — The two parties meet

i. POV: Tlazotzin
ii. Khatma-Reed
iii. Medieval Tibetan monastery on a mountaintop

2. Floodplains

a. Nine — Travel and getting acquainted

i. POV: Partim
ii. Khatma-Reed; Khatma-Tlazotzin; Khatma-Partim-Tsuya; Eiri-Khatma; Partim-Violet
iii. TBD

b. Ten — Every world is empty and there’s a peripheral monster are you seeing a pattern?

i. POV: Eiri
ii. Eiri-Partim; Reed-Tlazotzin; Tlazotzin-Tsuya
iii. TBD

c. Eleven — All the emotions and everyone is taking them out on each other

i. POV: Violet
ii. Reed-Violet; Khatma-Reed; Eiri-Tlazotzin; Partim-Tsuya
iii. TBD

d. Twelve — All the emotions and everyone is taking them out on each other

i. POV: Reed
ii. Tsuya-Violet; Khatma-Partim; Reed-Tsuya
iii. TBD

e. Thirteen — Full-scale (exacerbated from petty) argument and feelings tornado

i. POV: Khatma
ii. Tlazotzin-Violet; Eiri-Violet; Tsuya; all the feelings
iii. Tropical Venice-type trading city

3. One hundred shining thresholds

a. Fourteen — Retreat to separate corners and failed attempts to calm things down

i. POV: Tsuya
ii. Khatma-Tsuya; Khatma-Partim; Khatma-Tlazotzin; Eiri-Violet
iii. Uninhabited island neighboring tropical Venice

b. Fifteen — Disaster in the form of the End of Days

i. POV: Tlazotzin
ii. Tlazotzin-Violet; Eiri-Khatma; Khatma-Reed-Violet
iii. Nile Delta with palace-pyramids

iv. Tlazotzin is trying to be better in a crisis and is ashamed when she isn’t

c. Sixteen — Separation: Tlazotzin, Eiri, Khatma and Tsuya

i. POV: Khatma
ii. Eiri-Tlazotzin; Khatma-Tlazotzin; Khatma-Tsuya; Tlazotzin-Tsuya
iii. TBD

d. Seventeen — Separation: Reed, Partim, and Violet

i. POV: Partim
ii. Partim-Reed; Partim-Violet; Reed-Violet
iii. TBD

e. Eighteen — Reunion: hunting the beast to the same world

i. POV: Reed
ii. All-to-group; Eiri-Violet; Tlazotzin-Violet; Khatma-Violet
iii. Isle of Skye

4. Twilight days

a. Nineteen — Traveling, hunting, trying to be appreciative and not repeat mistakes

i. POV: Eiri
ii. Eiri-Tlazotzin; Eiri-to-group; Violet-to-group
iii. TBD

b. Twenty — Traveling, encountering more disagreements and shifting towards twilight

i. POV: Tlazotzin
ii. Tlazotzin-Reed; Khatma-Reed; Tlazotzin-Khatma; Tlazotzin-Tsuya
iii. TBD

iv. This stretches out over an indeterminate period of time that could be five years or it could be twenty. During this time, they realize that they do not grow old or change. Gradually, they discover that their need to eat is growing less and less; they don’t become hungry, and it takes longer before they need to sleep

c. Twenty-one — Drawing closer to the beast, worlds freshly or about-to-be destroyed

i. POV: Khatma
ii. Khatma-Partim-Tsuya; Eiri-Partim; Khatma-Reed-Violet
iii. Chaucerian London; Neanderthal groups in Europe; ending in Kuélap

d. Twenty-two — The blue city with people

i. POV: Partim
ii. Partim-Tlazotzin; Partim-Violet; Eiri-Partim; Partim-to-group
iii. Golden plains and the blue city

5. The blue city

a. Twenty-three — Resting, preparing, and planning

i. POV: Violet
ii. Reed-Violet; Khatma-Violet; Tlazotzin-Violet
iii. The blue city

b. Twenty-four — Confrontation in the city

i. POV: Tlazotzin
ii. Eiri-Tlazotzin; Reed-Tsuya
iii. The blue city

c. Twenty-five — Confrontation in the maze

i. POV: Khatma
ii. Eiri-Khatma; Khatma-Partim; Tsuya-to-group
iii. The maze beneath the city

6. The belly of the beast

a. Twenty-six — Void

i. POV: Tsuya
ii. All-to-past; all-to-group

b. Twenty-seven — Light

i. POV: Partim
ii. All-to-group

7. The end of days

a. Twenty-eight — Epilogue

i. POV: Reed
ii. Reed-to-all; all-to-group
iii. The Ramshackle House