Role in Story: Protagonist
Occupation: Wants to start a new business. Has been a social media success, worked with a Klout-like company. Is looking to build a new company.
Physical Description: Early 40s, blonde like somebody who was born blonde, very blonde as a kid grown up into highlights and dirty natural blonde now. She’s 5’10” with a face that still shows the cherubic child, the one that looked like a classic doll-like child at 3. She was born in Mexico, where her childhood self would occasionally stop people on the street. tempered by life, though. She was gorgeous at 20, but never thought of herself like that, so she didn’t use make-up, wasn’t big on dating.
Personality: The only one who didn’t understand how amazing Maura is, is Maura herself. She’s likely to linger in the background. She’ll let others lead the conversation. She’s brilliant. She was phi beta kappa at Stanford. She’s a natural mediator, comes from a large family, was often called on to help
Habits/Mannerisms: Maura waits for others to move, plays a background role, tends to sandbag a conversation by waiting in the background until the rime to move, and then she comes on strong and powerful if it’s about her areas of competence, or her child. She often lets others be right when it doesn’t matter.
Background: Raised in Palo Alto, youngest of five, very smart, phi beta kappa at Stanford. Her father John started a software company in Palo Alto. She saw the struggles, thought she’d never be an entrepreneur, but of course events led her there. She was an early helicopter child, very loyal to her parents. Maura’s fiery mother is Mexican, Angelina, a fireball, gorgeous when they met at Notre Dame.
Maura married Donald out of Stanford. He’d been a founder of a networking company, Netpower. He bowled her over, not just with limos and such, but with kindness, with intellect, he seemed the ideal suitor. The honeymoon was disappointing, as she dealt with his character, darkness, the real Donald. His love of Netpower, he wanted her to do the parenting, he’d never been affectionate, and their son was born with a disability called developmental dyspraxia. Maura felt steadily more alone as she developed her own life, he ended up as a revenge character.
Internal Conflicts: She deeply regrets marrying Donald because she felt dumb, deceived; but she loves her son. She struggles
External Conflicts: The main plot. Notes:
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