Writing Starter

Aliens have landed on Earth and have a takeover plan: they are going to disguise themselves to look like adorable 5-year-old children. And their most dangerous weapon? A death ray disguised as a lollypop.

The aliens kill all the humans because the humans are too stupid to notice that babies could be dangerous and there are so many aliens that they kill half the human population before anyone can even broadcast about the epidemic on the news. All human life dies and the aliens take over the world. The earth becomes the aliens habitat and the aliens decide they like to look like babies so the entire world is populated by babies which is cool except babies cant reach the top shelf so that becomes the biggest problems the aliens have to face ok bye India in 18.5 hours have a happy holiday season see you after break.

Writing Starter 59

In order to keep the population under control, the government gives away a drug called “Bliss.” As the name implies, the drug keeps everyone perfectly happy and content, virtually eliminating political unrest. It also lowers peoples’ lifespans, insuring that the planet never gets too crowded. When some people are reluctant to take the pills, the government simply dumps the drug into the water supply. A small group of rebels must search for uncontaminated water, so they can be clear-headed enough to challenge the government.

This it so much like Brave New World ugh. Okay but the rebels search for water, they have to fight off the elements, animals and avoid the governments watchful eye. Eventually they get the water they need and they figure out how to make that water the water everyone drinks and they overthrow the government yay the end

Writing Starter 58

Crime is finally eliminated through the simple procedure of broadcasting everyone’s lives on national television, 24 hours a day.

This sounds kind of like 1984. People would try to find a way to keep their lives private, and people would become paranoid and extremely unhappy. This system couldn't last very long at least in a society like the one we have today.

Writing Starter 57

In order to manufacture spider silk for industrial use, scientists genetically engineer gigantic “super spiders.” An industrial spy, looking for valuable information, breaks into the lab. To her horror, he soon finds herself surrounded by spiders the size of office furniture.

He doesn't. He attempts to fight the spiders, but their web entangles him and he cannot move any more. The spiders leave him tied in the web to spend the rest of his life unmoving and unsocial. He slowly goes crazy and eventually dies of dehydration.

SciFi Story

“Go, quickly. We must have like, the element of surprise on our side,” Princess Bratz ordered. With one sentence she unleashed the army of an entire civilization: Bratz World.

“The order has been sent. The Barbies won’t know what hit them,” Officer Bratzfield replied.

“Good, good,” said Princess Bratz, “Finally, Bratz World will have enough toys for like, every Bratz child. No one will be turned away. No child will be told, like I was, that there weren’t enough toys for them to have another. No more sacrifice.”

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Row by row, the army of Bratz marched closer and closer, each face identical, smiling, and made up. Inside Barbie Security Headquarters, sirens began blaring.

“Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Unidentified movement.”  

Lights flashed. The head military commander looked through his binoculars, towards the advancing army. “There’s at least twenty thousand of them, and there could be more. What do we do?”

His second in command responded gravely: “it’s clear we have only one choice. I must send the distress call.” With that he pushed a small red button, initiating a well-rehearsed country-wide call to arms.

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Ashley Jameson was painting her nails when the sirens erupted. “Oh crapnoodle,” she thought, “how am I supposed to go fight a war when my nails are wet?” She blew on them, pondering. “I guess I’ll just wait for them to dry. It’s probably like, just another drill, anyways.” She blew on them again.

About seven minutes later, when her nails were fully dry, she went into the half-bath on the second floor. She lifted up the matt laying in front of the sink, and knocked two and a half times. A door opened inward, revealing a pool of darkness and a barely visible slide. “We’ll, here we go,” she thought, as she slid down towards the darkness.

Seconds later she emerged in the military base. Other Barbies were running around frantically.

“Where is my cute soldier outfit??”

“I need to fix my hair!”

“Wait, do these camo pants make me look fat?”

Ashley was overwhelmed. Usually when she arrived at the base the military generals calmly took attendance, and then they all went back home. “What’s going on?” she asked a brunette, who was running by frantically.

“The Bratz army is attacking! We must fight back!”

“Oh crapnoodle,” said Ashley.

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Princess Bratz watched her army’s progress through a pink-rimmed fifty inch television screen. She sat on a purple plush armchair, her small poodle at her feet. Her poodle was playing with a yellow plush bunny toy. “Yes, Spookies, play with your bunny. Soon you will be able to have like, twenty bunnies, as soon as we take over the Barbies.”

“Ruff,” barked Spookies.

“Yes, yes, I know you’re excited. Come, look. Our army is like, almost there.” She picked up Spookies and showed him the TV. “Soon, my puppy, soon.”

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Ashley grabbed her weapon and took her place in row 26, 13 from the right. She solemnly turned to the Barbie next to her, a blonde named Ken, and said, “I don’t even know how to fight. What are we supposed to do? We do all these drills to get here, but no one ever told us like, what to do once we got here!”

Ken said, “we fight, I guess. Try not to die, and try to stop the Bratz.”

Ashley said, “what if we don’t?”

Ken said, “we die. I guess.” Ken wasn’t very smart.

“Move out!!” The order came from the front of the line. Ashley and Ken waited until the row in front of them started moving, and followed. They walked and walked and walked, and eventually murmurs of the Bratz and I see them! floated back from the front ranks.

“Oh crapnoodle,” said Ashley.

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Princess Bratz had just gotten out of her shower, when she heard a loud commotion in her TV room. She rushed over, only to see her army rushing towards the Barbie army, and the Barbies fighting back. Plastic, ever-smiling faces proceed to engage in mass murder. “Goooo team!” cheered Princess Bratz. Her lifelong dream of unlimited toys would finally become a reality as soon as her army won.

She turned to the picture of her parents kept on her coffee table, picked it up and whispered, “now who’s not important enough?”

Writing Starter 56

The teacher walked into his room, and unlocked the cabinet where he kept his robot. Much to his surprise, the cabinet was empty. He checked every knook and cranny in the entire room, but no robot. Finally he set out in search of his robot. He searched every mountain, every river, every whole and every house but he could not find his robot......

Writing Starter 55

Two people in a room find a box. They open it, and it lights up and begins making mysterious noises. They look closer, and notice a large egg is causing the mysterious sounds and lights. They grab the egg, and it shatters in their hands. Inside they find a little, baby dragon. Then the story turns into the same story line as that movie, how to train your dragon, and they and up training the dragon. The dragon  and the people become best friends and take over the world the end.

Writing Starter 54

A woman who sees ghosts checks herself into a mental health hospital, not realizing that the facility has been closed for almost 30 years. Describe what happens on the woman’s first night in the institution.

She gets attacked by various ghosts. There is one holding an ax, one who looks like her grandmother but obviously isn't, and even some animal ones. She goes totally crazy and runs out of the mental hospital screaming. She runs and runs until eventually she gets hit by a car and dies. The end. 

Writing Starter 53

I decide to keep the magic wand secret forever. I would use it to make myself invisible and see what other people say when I am not around. I would also use it to stop time so that I could sleep for a while.  Basically I would use it to make my life easier, like use it to summon a pile of bunnies or puppies I could cuddle, or use it to make a chocolate cake or whatever.

SciFi Brainstorm

Things to think about when writing fantasy/sci-fi/folktales 

1. Build your world. Chances are you're in another world or a slight variation on modern-day Earth.

What is the difference between your world and ours? Think about the class system, the way gender is treated and the religions throughout the world. Give two similarities and two differences between your charactersʼ world and the world you live in.

All my characters are barbies. They live in a barbie doll house type world, so everything is on a smaller scale. They generally look like humans, except they are all almost uniform looking. The world is controlled by the All-Powerful Barbie Queen. There is a rival world, filled with Bratz, attempting to take control of the land owned by the Barbies. Societies are generally similar to those of modern day Earth. There is no money or bartering system, everyone shares everything (so in a way its rather communist except there are so many things that no one is lacking in Barbie world). Bratz world is in need of resources, and this is the source of the worlds' conflicts. 

2. Don't make your characters all powerful. Give your characters weaknesses. Make them bad at something; make them underestimate people on a regular basis. Make them something other than immortal and all powerful, and your story will be more interesting.

Name one of your main characters and describe him/her/it.

Ashley: She has blonde hair, looks like a barbie, and is very preppy. She is a cheerleader. She is rich and successful but very helpless and has never had to learn any skill except cheering, cooking, and looking pretty. She is intelligent, but has not had to utilize her mind.

List two potential flaws in a main character you have in mind.

She is unexperienced at almost everything. She has an uncontrollable weakness when it comes to puppies.

3. Give your villains minds of their own. Give your villain a past, a future, friends, family, loved ones. etc. Give them a reason to be “evil”. Give them motivation, proper motivation that isn't 'just because'.

Name a possible villain in your story and describe him/her/it. In a few sentences, describe what made your villain evil.

Princess Bratz is a Bratz doll. She has brown hair, and is cunning. She inherited Bratz world from her family tree, and is in charge. As a child she never felt loved enough, and always wanted more toys than her parents would buy for her; this leads her to want to take all she can from Barbie world.

4. Use unusual creatures. One possibility is to use creatures which are from actual mythology or that youʼve seen in films or read about in books but with a twist. The other possibility is to use creatures you make up.

Name a possible creature you could use and tell me what type of creature this is.

Is this creature good or evil and why?

Barbies and Bratz. Some are good and some are evil. Just think about how creepy it would be to be attacked by an army of constantly smiling, uniformly made, small plastic people. 

Writing Starter 52

She was having a great day at the mall until the jerk in front of her stopped suddenly. She was about to yell at him, when she noticed everyone was stopped. A flash of motion on the lower floor caught her attention. They stepped sideways out of the air, short gray people in gray clothes. She watched them lift a few young teens and some random children and carry them sideways into emptiness. Everyone began moving again, calmly. The parents of the children, the friends of the teens, acted as if the missing people had never existed. Suddenly she remembered she had always had a younger brother, until one day she never had one. She suddenly had a vivid flashback to her younger brother; he told her about this system which removed people, erasing them from the collective memory. These people were taken to be prisoners and participants in psychological experiments. She decided that something had to be done about this sick practice. She went about attempting to educate the masses. She incited an uprising which overthrew those in charge of this system. The End.

Writing Starter 51

 A young girl starts having recurring dreams about a dragon. In one of the dreams, the dragon says, “It’s time for you to meet your destiny.” The girl becomes obsessed by this dream and … goes out in search of her "destiny." She meets friends, foes, and funny coincidences along the way. In the end, she finds out that her "destiny" is to be a writer. Here we realize that this story is an autobiography and the main character is the author, who became a successful writer.

Children's Story

Mr. Fox and Mrs. Duck decided to go to the lake.

On their way, they ran into Mr. Butterfly.

“Hey guys, where ya goin’?” Asked Mr. Butterfly.

“To the lake! Would you like to come?” Said Mrs. Duck.

“I’d love to come, but why are you going now? It is going to rain,” Mr. Butterfly noted.

“But it’s sunny!” Said Mr. Fox.

Mr. Butterfly looked at the sky and said, “look! There’s a rainbow overhead!”

“Let’s go find the end of the rainbow! There is gold there!”

Mr. Fox, Mrs. Duck, and Mr. Butterfly went looking for the end of the rainbow.

On their way, they ran into an evil snake.

“Sssssssoooo… What bringsssss you three onto my territory?” the snake hissssed.

“Oh no! We’re so sorry, we were just passing through. Really, we mean no trouble,” promised Mrs. Duck.

“Sssssssuree. Thatssss what they all ssssssay. I sssshould bite you all,” the snake said.

Mr. Fox extended his paw. “Look, we didn’t mean to upset you. We’re trying to go to the end of this rainbow. Would you like to come with us?”

The snake was puzzled. No one had ever asked him to do anything with them! Everyone was afraid of him.

Mrs. Duck smiled and said, “yeah, it’d be fun! Come join us!”

The snake decided that maybe these three weren’t so bad. “Sssssureee, I’ll come. Letssss go find thissss rainbow!”

The four of them continued their journey, until they found the end of the rainbow. They dug and dug and dug, but no treasure?

“Hmmm,” mused Mr. Butterfly, “maybe the treasure isn’t gold. Maybe it’s something better?”

“Like what?” wondered Mr. Fox.

“Friendssssship,” said the snake.

THE END

Writing Starter 50

Farmer Duck was out checking on his farm, when he saw a bunny hopping down the row filled with peas.
"Stop!" Cried Farmer Duck.
"Pickin' peas, land on my knees, heard my momma callin' me," sang the bunny as he ate all of Farmer Duck's peas.

Writing Starter 48

A high school janitor struggles to defend the school against giant sewer alligators. Write the beginning of the story of his/her struggle, how it started and whether it is successful or not.

Beginning: While the janitor was cleaning up after school one day, he was attacked by a giant sewer alligator. More and more came out of the sewer, until it was the janitor versus 15 alligators. Luckily, he had many weapons, like the broom and toilet bowl cleaner.

It started: The alligators climbed out of the sewer while the janitor was at school.

Was it successful? Yes, the janitor defeated them, saving the school.

Writing Starter 48

The duck was sitting near a pond, when the monkey skated past. He stopped, and turned, and said "what's wrong, duck?" 
The duck turned and said "I'm afraid to go in the water"
The monkey asked why, and the duck explained, that his brother had been caught whilst swimming in a lake many years before.
The monkey smiled sadly and said, "you know, you can't go through life afraid of what will happen"
The duck frowned and said "but I am scared"
The monkey said, I think you can do it. He raised his hands behind the ducks back, and with one big push threw him into the water.
"See," said the monkey "you haven't died in the water. You're fine!"
The duck smiled and said, "hey, I guess sometimes you need a friend to help you take the hard steps in life."
The monkey smiled and skated off, while the duck swam about in the pond.

Writing Starter 47

Clarence the cow was fast asleep. He was dreaming about lying in a field of hay. That was his favorite kind of dream. Just then, in his dream, a huge black cloud drifted in the sky above him. He looked up and stared at the cloud for a few seconds. That’s when he realized that it wasn’t a cloud and it wasn’t a dream. It was a person dressed as a cloud. They had a knife. They advanced slowly towards Clarence, raising the knife above him. Clarence trembled in his cow-knickers. He screamed. The person dressed as a cloud brought the knife down on Clarence. Blood spurted everywhere. The person dressed like a cloud looked up, and barely audibly whispered, "that's for having a stupid name. Goodbye, Clarence." The End.

Writing Starter 46

Opens in a pet store
We see an old guy, with white hair, laughing to himself while mixing a liquid mixture in a caldron.

Guy: he he he (to himself)

The liquid begins to bubble

Guy: My greatest creation yet

The liquid begins to steam

Guy: I am a genius

The liquid begins to swirl around, creating different shapes

Guy: Yes, my precious. Grow. You will help me take over the world.

The liquid begins to circle around the guy

Guy: Yes, my pet.

Writing Starter 45

M= Molly
D= Dan
L= Lucy

M: *stretches*
L: Molly get up! It's Christmas!
M: 5 move minutes...
D: GUYS GET UP?
M: NO
D: BUT ITS CHRISTMAS
L: Molly is tired
M: Molly is very tired
D: Guys. It's Christmas. Wake up. *jumps on beds*
M: Fine
L: Let's open presents!

* walk down stairs*

M: The snow is pink!
L: That is so weird. What....
D: It looks like cotton candy!
L: That's not possible...
M: Or is it...?

Play FINAL DRAFT

The Man’s Gift ; The Woman’s Ashes

Characters:

Annabelle Kingsley: Brown hair, green eyes. 17 year old female. Attends Pinetree High School. She is pretty, and preppy looking. Soccer player. Intellectual. Obsessed with poetry and Tumblr. Good at school yet not very interested in academics.

Emily: Bright red hair, brown eyes. 17 year old female. Attends Pinetree High School. She is pretty and eccentric. Has two tattoos. Doesn’t play any sports. Obsessed with listening to music and with British TV shows. Has awful grades but is intelligent.

Shane Anderson: Blonde hair, blue eyes. 18 year old male. Attends Lakeview High School. Muscular and fit. Plays football and soccer. Popular. Not a very interesting dude.

Drunk Dude: Tall, with curly brown hair and freckles. Is drunk.

Dylan: As you wish.

Judge: As you wish.

Juror: Male.

Shane’s Lawyer: Male.

(Seen but with no lines)

Court Worker: As you wish.

Annabelle’s Lawyer: Female.

Scene opens with Annabelle in Annabelle’s bedroom. Emily enters as if she has just taken a shower. Both girls are getting dressed and doing makeup. (Room must have a bed, should also have a dresser with a mirror).

Emily: (holding two bras, wrapped in a towel as if she just got out of the shower) Push up bra or no?

Annabelle: (applying makeup, doesn’t look up) Do it.

Emily: Are you sure? I feel like it looks like I’m trying too hard.

Annabelle: Dude, you look fine. Stop worrying..

Emily: Do you think any cute boys will be there?

Annabelle: I don’t know, probably. Thats why I like partying with Lakeview kids. They have way hotter guys than we do at Pinetree.

Emily: So true. I really just want to make out with a boy. It’s been like, two months.

Annabelle: Oh my god same. (flops onto bed) Ugh, I just want a boyfriend.

Emily: Stop whining, just go for it. You always back out whenever a guy shows any interest. Remember that guy Shane we met last weekend? He was totally into you and you just blew him off.

Annabelle: Whatever. I’m actually going to do something tonight.

Emily: We’ll see about that. (Looks at clock) K it’s 10. You ready?

Annabelle: Yeah. Are you driving?

Emily: Yeah my parents gave me gas money for once. I can drive.

(Girls exit room. Scene ends)

Scene opens with Annabelle and Emily walking up to a (moderately fancy) house. Music is audible and the audience can see a couple kissing against a tree, although it is mostly dark out.

Drunk Dude: (holding a red solo cup) Hey. (in the general direction of the two girls) What’s your name?

Annabelle: Annabelle. This is Emily.

Drunk Dude: (slightly slurring) Annabelle. (shakes her hand) Welcome to my party!

Emily: Thanks! (grabs Annabelle’s arm and navigates around Drunk Dude into the house)

Annabelle: He was kinda cute

Emily: Ew no. He’s way too skinny for you.

Annabelle: Shut up! I do not like fat guys!

Emily: Whatever you say. Let’s get something to drink.

Annabelle: I just want to dance!

Emily: (annoyed) Come get something to drink with me! You know I hate dancing. You can dance after we find me a cute boy to hang out with.

Annabelle: (slightly annoyed) Fine.

(The two girls get drinks from a keg in the kitchen)

Annabelle: Here, you can go hang out with Dylan. He likes you. I’m gonna go do something actually fun instead of standing around in a corner like you want to do. (pushes through the crowd to a dark room, obviously meant for dancing. As she enters through the doorway, Shane notices her)

Shane: Annabelle. Hey.

Annabelle: Hey Shane! What’s up?

Shane: Not much. (grabs her waist) Do you want to dance?

Annabelle: Yeah. (chugs contents of her cup. Shane grabs her hand and leads her to the center of the room. They dance for a few minutes. Shane pulls a fifth of vodka out of his back pocket).

Shane: Here, have some. (hands it to Annabelle, she drinks)

(The two continue dancing and Shane continues to get Annabelle drunk, without ever drinking himself).

Annabelle: (turning to face him, wrapping her hands around his neck. There is a slightly noticeable slur to her words) You’re so cute.

Shane: (Laughs slightly) Thanks babe. (The two kiss. Shane leads Annabelle to a room across the hall. He locks the door. They continue kissing and end up on the bed in the room)

Annabelle: (Takes a drink of vodka. Slurring slightly more as she speaks) Look, Shane, you’re awesome and really hot but I don’t want to do this.

Shane: Do what, baby?

Annabelle: (laughs nervously) I don’t know, haha. I just want…

Shane: Hey, hey. It’s okay. We’ll take it slow. Whatever you want babe. (kisses her lightly) Let’s turn the TV on.

Annabelle: Haha, okay.

Shane: Here, let’s play “ten fingers.” If you put your finger down you have to take a shot.

Annabelle: Okayyy.

Shane: Do you want to go first?

Annabelle: No, you. It was your idea.

Shane: Okay. Never have I ever kissed a guy.

Annabelle: That is so cheap! You knew I’d done that! (drinks) Okay fine, never have I ever been to Germany.

Shane: Nope. Never have I ever wore makeup.

Annabelle: You do stupid ones. (Drinks) I’m tired. Can we go to sleep? (passes out)

Shane: Sure.

(The audience sees that Annabelle passes out on the bed, and we see Shane begin to undress her before the scene ends by a fade to black)

Scene opens in a court room. Shane is the defendant. Emily is sitting behind Annabelle, she is slightly crying.

Shane’s Lawyer: The defense calls Annabelle Kingsley to the stand.

(Annabelle goes to the witness stand)

Judge: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Annabelle: Yes.

Shane’s Lawyer: Okay. Annabelle. On the night in question, is it true that you were flirting with the defendant, dancing with him, kissing him, and that you willingly went into a private room with him, before the alleged “rape”?

Annabelle: Yes, but--

Shane’s Lawyer: So would it be fair to say that your actions may have suggested to the defendant that you wanted to engage in sexual activities?

Annabelle: Well-

Shane’s Lawyer: Could it also be fair to say that you are prosecuting my client in an attempt to excuse your own provocative behavior?

Annabelle: What?

Shane’s Lawyer: You are ashamed of your actions and that you wanted to have sex with my client, so you are prosecuting him to take the blame off yourself.

Annabelle: How is this my fault?

Shane’s Lawyer: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, please note that the witness has not refuted these claims. Do not convict a man who simply was responding to the cues provided to him by this witness. He did not “rape” Miss Kingsley, instead he is the victim of a woman who is using the judicial system to excuse her own slutty behavior.

Annabelle: Wait, no, you can’t say that. You have to listen to me

Shane’s Lawyer: No further questions

Annabelle: What?

Shane’s Lawyer: No further questions. Step down Miss Kingsley.

Scene opens again in the court room.

Judge: Has the jury reached a verdict?

Juror: We have, your honor.

(Court worker takes piece of paper to judge, she reads it.)

Judge: In the case of Annabelle Kingsley versus Shane Anderson, with the charge of rape in the second degree, how does the jury find the defendant?

Juror: We find the defendant not guilty, your honor.

The End