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I have the second draft of a novel going the rounds with my beta readers, I'm currently working on another novel and I got the idea for yet another that I'm putting on the back burner until I'm done with the current project. Here's the synopsis I came up with for the project on the backburner.
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A man thought he found his one true love, settled down with her and had a child. That child’s mother dies after he’s grown up to become a young adult in high school. His father doesn’t think he’ll ever find someone that’s as perfect for him as his late wife but feels it’s his duty because his son needs a mother.
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The man is pleasantly surprised by the woman he finds and, like with his former wife, marries and has a kid. It was too good to be true, however, because the relationship falls apart only a couple years after they have their kid together. Throughout their relationship he neglected her child. He was too busy spoiling his first born because he couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to keep making up for the death of his mother.
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Following the divorce, the mother begins to shake her ex-husband down in regards to child support. He was too focused on his first born to notice the signs of abuse that presented themselves during their relationship. She hides her son’s cuts and bruises with her make-up when she sends him off to be with his father when it’s his time of the month. The rambunctious youth’s activity takes the cheap make-up off during his stay with his father and when he comes home the cuts and bruises are there clear as day. She calls in Child Protective Services to severely limit his visitation rights and to up the ante further for child support to pay for her son’s medical bills; she has no insurance. The courts even go so far as to garnish his wages to pay for the son he neglected.
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He looks at how financially dependent she is on him in raising their child and, against court orders, tries to play a bigger role in his kid’s life even if that means skating around the law as best he can to do so. He knows he didn’t do anything wrong and he feels he deserves a free pass to ignore court mandate. If he is going to be considered things ranging from an unfit father to a convict, he thinks he might as well live up to at least one of those monikers. Things really can’t get any worse, he thinks.
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In playing a bigger part in his other son’s life he begins to neglect his first born; no matter what the situation is, he just doesn’t have enough love to go around, it seems. Additionally, the mother’s crooked schemes are to support herself. Her kid lives nearly as bad as the dogs you see rescued on those shows on Animal Planet. In layman’s terms, she’s a gold digger. But she’s oh so much more.
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What happens when the spoiled favorite stops getting his way and the son that was neglected, still quite young, grows up with very conflicting messages? What will happen when he has a voice in matters and what will the repercussions be?
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Yesterday, I was just bouncing from Wikipedia page to Wikipedia page on subjects regarding things from kleptomania to catatonia and had an idea for the backburner project. Here it is.
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The son neglected by the mother ends up with borderline personality disorder. This seems a distinct possibility with the childhood trauma he experiences due to his mother's abusive, neglectful nature. The other son, previously spoiled, now neglected, ends up with schizoid personality disorder. This results from how his close personal relationships have gone before, with both his mother, dying when he was growing up, and his father, going from treating him like the center of his world to neglecting him. The nature of schizoid personality disorder, abstaining from close personal relationships, makes sense, given this, because by distancing himself in that manner he prevents himself from becoming hurt again.
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I feel that, based on my knowledge of these matters, this is believable, but I'm no expert so I was hoping I could get a second - and possibly third, fourth, et cetera - opinion on the matter. Also, because the synopsis was just a rough thing I wrote up when inspiration hit, if you see anything unbelievable or anything that might need reworking, tell me. Thank you.
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A man thought he found his one true love, settled down with her and had a child. That child’s mother dies after he’s grown up to become a young adult in high school. His father doesn’t think he’ll ever find someone that’s as perfect for him as his late wife but feels it’s his duty because his son needs a mother.
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The man is pleasantly surprised by the woman he finds and, like with his former wife, marries and has a kid. It was too good to be true, however, because the relationship falls apart only a couple years after they have their kid together. Throughout their relationship he neglected her child. He was too busy spoiling his first born because he couldn’t shake the feeling that he had to keep making up for the death of his mother.
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Following the divorce, the mother begins to shake her ex-husband down in regards to child support. He was too focused on his first born to notice the signs of abuse that presented themselves during their relationship. She hides her son’s cuts and bruises with her make-up when she sends him off to be with his father when it’s his time of the month. The rambunctious youth’s activity takes the cheap make-up off during his stay with his father and when he comes home the cuts and bruises are there clear as day. She calls in Child Protective Services to severely limit his visitation rights and to up the ante further for child support to pay for her son’s medical bills; she has no insurance. The courts even go so far as to garnish his wages to pay for the son he neglected.
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He looks at how financially dependent she is on him in raising their child and, against court orders, tries to play a bigger role in his kid’s life even if that means skating around the law as best he can to do so. He knows he didn’t do anything wrong and he feels he deserves a free pass to ignore court mandate. If he is going to be considered things ranging from an unfit father to a convict, he thinks he might as well live up to at least one of those monikers. Things really can’t get any worse, he thinks.
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In playing a bigger part in his other son’s life he begins to neglect his first born; no matter what the situation is, he just doesn’t have enough love to go around, it seems. Additionally, the mother’s crooked schemes are to support herself. Her kid lives nearly as bad as the dogs you see rescued on those shows on Animal Planet. In layman’s terms, she’s a gold digger. But she’s oh so much more.
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What happens when the spoiled favorite stops getting his way and the son that was neglected, still quite young, grows up with very conflicting messages? What will happen when he has a voice in matters and what will the repercussions be?
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Yesterday, I was just bouncing from Wikipedia page to Wikipedia page on subjects regarding things from kleptomania to catatonia and had an idea for the backburner project. Here it is.
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The son neglected by the mother ends up with borderline personality disorder. This seems a distinct possibility with the childhood trauma he experiences due to his mother's abusive, neglectful nature. The other son, previously spoiled, now neglected, ends up with schizoid personality disorder. This results from how his close personal relationships have gone before, with both his mother, dying when he was growing up, and his father, going from treating him like the center of his world to neglecting him. The nature of schizoid personality disorder, abstaining from close personal relationships, makes sense, given this, because by distancing himself in that manner he prevents himself from becoming hurt again.
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I feel that, based on my knowledge of these matters, this is believable, but I'm no expert so I was hoping I could get a second - and possibly third, fourth, et cetera - opinion on the matter. Also, because the synopsis was just a rough thing I wrote up when inspiration hit, if you see anything unbelievable or anything that might need reworking, tell me. Thank you.
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