Injung's Short Story Proposal

Exposition: the main character is a middle aged man named Jonathon Twain. He's living alone in the city working as an  under-payed computer programmer, who has a love for music.

Inciting Incident: one day he decides he is fed up and quits his job.

Rising Action: without anywhere else to go decides to pursue his dream of becoming a great musician. this proves rather difficult because he has done nothing his entire life, but sit a desk with a computer. without enough money to go to a music school or get music lessons for an instrument he uses his savings to purchase a piano. he uses his computer to help teach himself how to play while he finds another job, because he is shamed to return to his last job, as a free lancer who helps fix computers since he must lay rent. he works dilligently at practicing the piano and decides to enter a piano contest. when he enters he is dismayed to see that his competition are mere 15 year olds, but soon finds out that this may be incredibly hard after he hears the first contestant.

Climax: he wins the competition out of sheer will power as he tries his hardest to succeed.

Falling Action: he decides that this life is what he wishes to pursue so he takes his amateur winnings and moves to Paris and resumes his quest to master piano.

Resolution: although he works quite hard he never makes himself well known and marries at 35 a french girl.