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- Kai: We're going to brainstorm all the elements of a story.
Setting, characters, and plot.
Remember, every idea is a good idea.
And every idea can be revised.
We're going to brainstorm where the story takes place,
who is in the story, and what even happens in the story.
We want lots of options, and we can always change it later.
Follow along with us and then try it with your classmates.
? Brainstorming, we're gonna start brainstorming ?
ideas for a story.
We're going to start with settings.
Let's imagine other places we would wanna go
and live and visit.
- 1996 New York. - New York City, 1996.
- Yes. - And it's light,
light, and it's light in space.
- Kai: Light in space. - Sheperd: Light in space.
It's light, like how these are lights,
or like it's lightweight in space?
- Um, it's um, like, it's like the outside.
And the stars are black.
- Oh, and the stars are, oh! - Group: Oh!
- Kai: Reverse, okay. - Uh-huh, I like it.
Hildy. - There's, like, a pizza place,
but instead of Papa John's, it's Mama, um, Jolene's.
[all laughing]
- Mama Jolene's Pizza! - Yeah.
- Sheperd: Even better ingredients, even better pizza,
Mama Jolene's. - Mama Jolene's.
- Before we get started, I want to challenge you
to come up with original characters.
Do we know what original means? - Group: Yes.
- Yes, it means it comes from our own brains
and not something else.
Is SpongeBob an original character,
if I said my character's SpongeBob?
- Group: No! - What about SqueegeeOb?
- Is SqueegeeOb an original character?
- Group: Yeah! - Oh, brilliant, excellent.
All right, now I wanna see hands.
- Corbin, can you start us off, please?
- Um, like a water and a fire dude?
- Sheperd: [gasps] A water and a--
like at the same time? - Yeah.
- Sheperd: Like he's water and fire dude?
- Yeah. - Sheperd: Ooh, steamy.
- It's a tree named Jeffrey
who, by night, becomes a bush who can shoot thorns.
- A dryad gone crazy.
- They're long-lost twins.
Their names and Dez and Zed.
- How'd they get lost?
- They're originally both born on Jupiter,
but then they both climbed into escape pods
to different planets. - Whoa!
- Kai: Next is plot.
What happens in these stories?
Yes, please, start us off.
- There's this place called Mama Jolene's Pizza,
and then this hooded guy walks in.
- Thorin should be, like, the bad guy in that.
- Dawry: Okay, okay. - Kai: Yeah, so we have,
Once upon a time at Mama Jolene's Pizza
in reverse space, Thorin the dryad walks in, a cloak, period.
Every day.
What does Thorin do every day at Mama Jolene's?
- Uh, he orders, uh, a Big Mac. - Kai: Yes.
- I was just gonna say that! [laughing]
- Kai: I...incredible.
- One day, like, the cloaked guy, like,
doesn't wanna be evil anymore, or something like that?
But, like, no one, like, knows that he doesn't wanna be evil,
so they still all think that he's evil.
- And because of that,
Dez goes to Mama Jolene's Pizza Place
and sees a cloaked person and gets scared.
- Maybe because of that, Thorin chases them, saying,
"I'm not evil, I'm not evil!"
- Maybe to end out the story, maybe it should say, like,
"Ever since that day, they stopped being evil,
and create the froyo pizza together."
- Kai: Yes, nailed it!
And then there's probably gonna be more,
so let's just end it with, - In unison: To be continued!
- Kai: All right, places!
Action.
- Once upon a time, at Mama Jolene's Pizza
in reverse space, Thorin the dryad walks in
in a dark cloak.
Every day, Thorin orders a Big Mac.
Next door, in the froyo place,
Jeff the tree, also known as Jefftree,
eats froyo with Percy Jackson,
who is secretly enemies with Thorin.
One day, Thorin decides not to be evil anymore.
But no one knows that.
Because of that, Dez goes into MJ's,
also known as Mama Jolene's, and sees Thorin, gets scared,
and runs into the froyo and sees Zed,
her long-lost twin!
[all laughing]
Because of that, Thorin chases them, saying,
- "I'm not evil!"
- And they all apologized to Thorin and start being nice.
Ever since that day,
they decide to stop competing at being evil
and create froyo pizza together.
To be continued.
- Kai: Yes. [applauding]
[group chatting] No, it's beautiful.