September 27, 2006

Some revision needed

Becky asked her fourth grade students to write a personal narrative story about an experience they’ve had. She’s returning this one for fleshing out, but I kinda like it as-is. In its entirety, then:

Me: Where are we going?
Aunt Robyn: Garden of the Gods.
Me: Yay! Woo Hoo!
Dan: I sort of remember the way.
car: vvrrooooom vrmmmm.

16 minutes later…
Grandpa: Well, here we are. Garden of the Gods. Oh, look! Our little climbing rock.
Me: Yoo-hoo. Yay.

21 seconds later…
Me: Top of the world!
Dan: Come with me.
Me: Wow! What a place!!!
Dan: I’ll show you my rock

20 minutes later…
Me: Wow!!! Cool!!!
Echo: Cool! Cool! Cool!
Me: Now that’s cool!
Dan: I know what’s cooler!

1 more hour later…
Me: Wow!
Dan: Ya Wow.
Me: So cooooool!!
Dan: Awesome! Yeaaa!

2 hours later…
Me: Finally all packed up!
Dan: Now that’s awfully long.

3 Hours later…
Me: Tohf! I’m sooooo tired!
Dan: Now the stove!

1 more hour later…
Me: Good! Toof! Let’s go inside and move stuff like sleeping bags, candles, food, and coal!

2 more hours later…
Me: Wow! That was long, Dan!
Dan: Yeah! Hey, let’s go inside.

The End.

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Clearly a budding screenwriter.  Good character development solely through dialogue.

See if Aaron Sorkin needs a writer.

“I kinda like it as-is.”

Same here.  I’m torn between whether it would also work as a comic or if it’s best left alone.  Probably best left alone.

Sorry, gotta go with Becky on this one. 
What is so “Wow.” “Ya Wow,” “So cooooool!!.” and “Awesome! Yeaaa!” about what Dan knows is “cooler”?  Even as a radio play this is pretty uninformative.  At least a “Look at that,” would be helpful.  And what sort of utterance is “Toof?”

Oh.  I assumed Toof was their dog.

I have an active imagination.

That reads like the Fifteen-Minute Troy.

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