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Ellis (ellsson) wrote in weddedplot,
@ 2011-11-09 12:44:00

This is Ellis Brayson, recently turned 30 and one half of a dating premade.

Originally from London, she came to New York with big dreams and ended up homeless for a while after a very bad breakup. While trying to pull herself back together she started writing sort of a tongue-in-cheek book about romance. She started posting bits of it online and got a publishing offer and it turned into an amazing best seller. It was only a one time thing, she just never had a second book in her, but in the meantime it launched her career as an advice and lifestyle columnist. I'm not sure yet if it's with a paper or a magazine.

Now she lives in Manhattan and is one of those women who's always working. Even if she's just getting groceries she's got a Moleskin out, scribbling notes on couples she stumbles across. She also writes a bit of lifestyle stuff so she attends the occasional party or event. She's a little critical of men, because of said breakup mentioned above, and she's got a fairly sharp tell-it-like-it-is tongue, although she can be genuinely sweet. She's easy to get along with and doesn't really care for being alone.

She needs everything except the ex and the boyfriend (both are the same guy and will be coming along shortly). I figure she didn't date much after the breakup, made one other ex, but she'd have been around the city to have made a few good friends, maybe she's got some family around? Part of her bio is in her journal. I'm still working on her a bit.

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	jilla 2011-11-09 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	We have to figure out something because SEB = so much stinking love. The only concern I have is that Jill is the age difference, but we can make it work? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-09 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	How old is she? I'm sure we can figure something out. What does she do? Maybe they've run across each other 'at work' or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jilla
2011-11-09 11:37 pm UTC (link)

Jill is a 19 year old college dropout who just moved back home from UCLA. Right now she's jobless, but she'll eventually start picking up a few hours at her mother's bakery/cafe. That might be a potential link. Maybe Ellis sometimes takes up residence there to write? Jill wouldn't be shy about approaching her and to put it mildly, demand to know what she's writing. It might very likely give you links to Jill's mother ~robyne and her fiance ~krenard as well. Kal at least is closer to her age.

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	ellsson 2011-11-09 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	The would work. El likes to people watch, observe, and all that cliche stuff. Plus she's a fan of a nice tea and pastry. I can see her sort of identifying with Jill, being young and sort of wandering right now because El was homeless for a bit, not the same thing, but, it's something to relate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jilla 2011-11-10 12:10 am UTC (link)
	That sounds great to me. Jill feels homeless? lol She's living at home with her mother and after a year of independence, it's kind of hard readjusting even if she does have a lot of freedom. I really think she'll find Ellis fascinating. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-10 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Ha, no. I'm on my phone and lost a while chunk of my message there to autocorrect/thumbs. I meant because she's young, starting new things, etc etc, Ellis will like her and sort of take to her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jilla 2011-11-10 01:14 am UTC (link)
	Gotta love auto correct. Sounds like we have a winner. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lsom 2011-11-09 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	I can offer a fellow writer. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-09 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	Great! What does he write? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lsom 2011-11-09 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	Fiction: Kind of Jonathan Franzen meets Ian McEwan meets a Canaidan Julian Barnes. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-09 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	El did publish a fiction book, which got her career as a columnist rolling, maybe they had the same editor? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lsom 2011-11-09 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	Works for me! I'm looking to find someone to fill him, so maybe we'll get lucky and you'll get a line with that as well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-10 12:02 am UTC (link)
	Great! I love your choice of PB, by the way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lsom 2011-11-10 12:07 am UTC (link)
	thank you :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pera 2011-11-10 03:49 am UTC (link)
	not really sure how they'd know one another but i'd be happy to offer pera up for a line. she's 35 and a night club manager, a rather social type so they could have met just about anywhere. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-10 03:52 am UTC (link)
	El has to do industry 'events' and all that, so it's possible that there was something at the club? El is actually really friendly, so they could have hit it off. Easily. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pera 2011-11-10 04:00 am UTC (link)
	sure, that would work out great. so we could say they've met and chatted a bit, and maybe they've run into one another a couple other times so they're at least on the friendly acquaintance level. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ellsson 2011-11-10 04:03 am UTC (link)
	That's perfect. (Reply to this) (Parent)