First off,
let me apologize for not posting the next installment of “High” School on
Friday. I should have warned you that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and
there is always a distinct possibility that I would get distracted by it. And I
did.
Now back to
business as usual and that means I have a Writing Prod to share with you. The
next on my list is one that I call . . . Dream Guide. If you keep a dream
journal this will be easy. Write down the details of a dream you had and then
turn it into a story.
You
probably wouldn’t guess it, but this is a prompt that gives me significant
trouble. Yeah, weird huh? I’m the Story Man and I can turn just about anything
into a story – except my dreams. That’s because my dreams are too fragmented to
generate a reasonable plot from them. Besides, who wants a story about a
protagonist organizing objects in preparation for a move. Hmmm . . . or do you?
Charlie’s
Charm Closet
Last week
everything was fine. Charlie had friends, he had the run of the neighborhood,
and he had baseball. Then his parents suddenly announced that they were moving
and all of that went away.
They moved
to a small, creepy town with few children and no baseball team. Charlie
protested the move by boycotting the family, but that only earned him extra
chores. His parents assigned him the job of cleaning out the junk-filled closet
under the stairs. Then everything changes when Charlie realizes that this is a
magical closet filled with wondrous items. The relics disappear when taken out
of the closet and are replaced with something new.
Every day
becomes a new adventure for Charlie, until a mysterious real-estate agent shows
up at the house and explains that there has been a mistake and the family will
have to move. Charlie has seen this person before; she is on the cover of a
book in the closet. This is no real estate agent – this is the Dust Queen who will
use the relics to enslave the people of Earth.
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