Short+Story+Brainstorm

1) Warm-up- Write non-stop for at least 5 minutes without worrying about what comes to mind.

CHICKEN. I love chicken like a lot a lot a lot. Have you ever eaten chicken with ketchup? I don’t like chicken with ketchup. Bbq sauce all the way man. Yes. I love chicken. Chicken..yummmmm. lol. Omg, it is 1:30. I like cows. Cows are black and White and they have spots but why? Why do cows have spots I don’t get it. Like, if I was a cow I would wanna have like stripes or something. Do brown cows make chocolate milk? Hmmm, do chickens drink milk? Do mommy chickens make milk? I don’t understand life. Or the world. Wow, the world is mad big for no reason. I don’t get it. Like, hey I am big and have water and land and I call myself earth. Oh Earth like Earth Science. I hated that class. Ew. No comment. No comment hahaha, I say that all the time and people get annoyed. Annoying people bug me. Like, really just shut your mouth no on wants to hear you talk. I love cheese. Not the holy kind though, I only eat holy kind at church. Haha, get it holy cheese. Hahaha. Just like I wear my holy jeans to church. HAHAHAHAH. I am jeusus friendly. Jeans, I just got some new jeans. I don’t know why though like summer or spring is coming soon so there is really no point. I will save them for next year. Wow, next year we are going to die. I forgot about that! December 21, 2012. DEAD! Better live it up now. Sam Reese is leaving me in a year L  I’m upset. Wow, I really hate people that are always mopy. Like forreal, get happy. I am always happy unless I have in a bad mood. Then I am not happy. Wow happy people are funny. I also, like zebra’s because they have funny patteren s on them. YAY ZEBRA’S. I love pizza and coke. That coke commercial with the polar bears makes me laugh every time! I forgot I tapped Pretty Little Liars. I gatta watch that when I get home. PLL is my show, don’t hate. So is Glee, and Law and Order SVU, and so is dance moms. Dannce mom’s! haha I love Chloes mom she always has something to say and that just cracks me up! Go dance mom’s! hahaha, I have dance tomorrow. RATS. Ew, rats are gross they are all dirty and stuff like take a bath buddy.Wow. 5 minutes is up and I realized how random I am. SOOO RANDOM!

2) Choose the theme, word, idea, character, or question that most intrigues you from what you wrote. The theme of dyeing in 2012 really caught my attention as I was rereading what I had typed.

3) Turn the intriguing idea into a sentence in the form “(Character) wants (Goal) because (Motivation), but (Conflict).” Example: "A sneaky mouse wants to learn magic because it will let him become king of the mice, but the magic books are hidden away."

“Philosophers was the world to end because then the Mayans predictions would be correct, but all the other predictions have been wrong that people till this day are coming up with.”

4) Ask “What if…?” questions to improve your one-sentence story idea. Your mission is to create a main character you love, a very important goal with an admirable motivation, and a conflict that will force significant character growth.

What if the world never ends? What if the Mayans were wrong all along? What if the philosophers would have never studied about the Mayans? What if people freak out over nothing?

5) Continue on to questions like “Who?”, “What?”, “Where?”, “When?”, “Why?”, and “How?” These should lead you to develop a setting, additional characters, and outcomes.

Who could possibly know what happened over 100,000 years ago, to know that the Mayans predicate this?

What is the ending?

Where did they find their clues?

When is all of the researching going to take place?

How did the philosophers come up with the other dates they predicted the world was going to end on?