Year of writing 10

1/10/12

I love teaching creative writing. Especially to junior high school kids - there is no other time when a kid can go from "I don't have any ideas for a character" to "he's a gorilla who lost his forest when people built a mall, so he became bionic and now he uses his super strength to break in the mall every night and cause pandemonium." in like 5 minutes.

Other story/comic book character ideas from today:
The world's most stealthy ninja, who reveals herself to be a shy middle school girl.
An insane cupcake, bent on ruling the kitchen.
A werewolf gladiator, fighting to restore his freedom from captivity.
A graffiti writer who happens to be the son of the anti-graffiti task force commanding officer.
A mutated spider crossing guard, who can't understand why people don't like him (yeah, that says crossing guard).
A mild mannered father of two kids who has a terrible secret: he is an alien, sent to Earth to destroy it.
The most intelligent barnacle on earth, biding his time on the bottom of a whale.
A humanoid burrito superhero, whose weapon of choice is a jalepeno sword.
Chuck Norris. ( "come on," I said - "you can't just create somebody who already exists" )
OK then, Chuck Norris' bacon. Baaaaack from the deeaaaaaaad. (shrug, "ok, why not")
A sparkle eater. (this is by far the most intriguing character)
and.... wait for it....
Yo Mama. (applause)