The Creative Process
It all started with Kelsey saying “Let's write a story about a kidnapping.”
Bella immediately jumped on the idea and they both started to brainstorm how this kidnapping should happen. Bella believed that the small, poor child should be kidnaped by a god, while Kelsey believed the child should be kidnaped by a less important character, the ninja, who worked for the god. This then threw both Bella and Kelsey into a spiral of thinking and spitting out ideas about what should happen to challenge their main hero through her journey. This continued on for quite a while until Kelsey proclaimed “What about our characters?”.
The two beautiful girls then started planning out the main character’s personality and her features with great ease, that is until they tried to figure out what the main character’s name was going to be. They visited multiple baby name websites trying to find the perfect name without any luck. That is until Bella had an amazing idea.
“Why don’t we use Ell?” Bella said to a very confused-looking Kelsey.
“Why in the world would we use Ell?” said Kelsey to a very excited Bella.
Bella then went on to explain that they should use Ell because of the fact they both had the letters “El” in their names.
“Like KELsey and BELLa,” said Bella, very proud of her idea. Kelsey loved the idea and that is how the name Ell Kane was born. Then, the girls needed a name for Ells' sidekick. Kelsey's boyfriend is named Dane Case and Bella's boyfriend is named Erik Taylor, so they combined the two names and Derik Tase was made. They also used some character traits from their boyfriends to develop the character of Derik. The girls then turned back to the baby name websites to figure out the gods' names. For the God of Children, they typed in "names that meant children" and found the name Essien. They could not believe there were actually names meaning 'child,' but they were pleased. They did the same for the God of Shadows and the Goddess of Love.
After they figured out all the characters, it was time to figure out the story. The first thing these lovely girls did was set up the structure of the story. They knew they needed to have their character go on a hero's journey. They decided that her call to adventure would be her sister's kidnapping. Her first helper would be a ninja expert, Derik. Her first challenge would be a physical encounter with a ninja. Her second challenge would be an emotional encounter with a ninja. This ninja would then become her helper. Her third challenge would be a frightening encounter with Itzal. He also becomes her helper in a way. Her final challenge would be a short battle with Essien. Then, she would gain a helper in Amara. Lastly, she would return with the elixir, Megan.
They also set up the guidelines on what a ninja can and can't do and how to kill them. They made separate websites to inform the reader about ninjas and said that Ell visited one of them. The websites tell two very different stories about ninjas. This is because there are always false myths. After this, all they had to do was write the story, but first they had to set up the main website.
The girls quickly decided that Kelsey was going to be the creator of the website because Bella had never worked on Weebly before while Kelsey ,on the other hand, had for a different school project. Kelsey quickly set up all the tabs the girls were going to need, while Bella was looking for all the pictures they were going to need. Bella believed that all the pictures should be themed black and white to represent the ninjas. She even chose one that was solid black and proclaimed "Look Kelsey! There are a million ninjas in this picture, you just can't see them!" Kelsey had a good laugh and decided to go along with Bella's crazy idea.
After the website was finished, it was time for the girls to go their separate ways. Kelsey was in charge of writing the story, while Bella was in charge of writing this, but just because they parted ways did not mean that they did not help each other out. Whenever one of the girls got writer's block one girl would helped the other out. After the two drop-dead gorgeous girls finished their parts, they emailed their link to their teacher with huge smiles on their faces, hoping that the smiles would last when they saw their grade *wink wink*. The two stunning girls then lived happily ever after! The end.
Bella immediately jumped on the idea and they both started to brainstorm how this kidnapping should happen. Bella believed that the small, poor child should be kidnaped by a god, while Kelsey believed the child should be kidnaped by a less important character, the ninja, who worked for the god. This then threw both Bella and Kelsey into a spiral of thinking and spitting out ideas about what should happen to challenge their main hero through her journey. This continued on for quite a while until Kelsey proclaimed “What about our characters?”.
The two beautiful girls then started planning out the main character’s personality and her features with great ease, that is until they tried to figure out what the main character’s name was going to be. They visited multiple baby name websites trying to find the perfect name without any luck. That is until Bella had an amazing idea.
“Why don’t we use Ell?” Bella said to a very confused-looking Kelsey.
“Why in the world would we use Ell?” said Kelsey to a very excited Bella.
Bella then went on to explain that they should use Ell because of the fact they both had the letters “El” in their names.
“Like KELsey and BELLa,” said Bella, very proud of her idea. Kelsey loved the idea and that is how the name Ell Kane was born. Then, the girls needed a name for Ells' sidekick. Kelsey's boyfriend is named Dane Case and Bella's boyfriend is named Erik Taylor, so they combined the two names and Derik Tase was made. They also used some character traits from their boyfriends to develop the character of Derik. The girls then turned back to the baby name websites to figure out the gods' names. For the God of Children, they typed in "names that meant children" and found the name Essien. They could not believe there were actually names meaning 'child,' but they were pleased. They did the same for the God of Shadows and the Goddess of Love.
After they figured out all the characters, it was time to figure out the story. The first thing these lovely girls did was set up the structure of the story. They knew they needed to have their character go on a hero's journey. They decided that her call to adventure would be her sister's kidnapping. Her first helper would be a ninja expert, Derik. Her first challenge would be a physical encounter with a ninja. Her second challenge would be an emotional encounter with a ninja. This ninja would then become her helper. Her third challenge would be a frightening encounter with Itzal. He also becomes her helper in a way. Her final challenge would be a short battle with Essien. Then, she would gain a helper in Amara. Lastly, she would return with the elixir, Megan.
They also set up the guidelines on what a ninja can and can't do and how to kill them. They made separate websites to inform the reader about ninjas and said that Ell visited one of them. The websites tell two very different stories about ninjas. This is because there are always false myths. After this, all they had to do was write the story, but first they had to set up the main website.
The girls quickly decided that Kelsey was going to be the creator of the website because Bella had never worked on Weebly before while Kelsey ,on the other hand, had for a different school project. Kelsey quickly set up all the tabs the girls were going to need, while Bella was looking for all the pictures they were going to need. Bella believed that all the pictures should be themed black and white to represent the ninjas. She even chose one that was solid black and proclaimed "Look Kelsey! There are a million ninjas in this picture, you just can't see them!" Kelsey had a good laugh and decided to go along with Bella's crazy idea.
After the website was finished, it was time for the girls to go their separate ways. Kelsey was in charge of writing the story, while Bella was in charge of writing this, but just because they parted ways did not mean that they did not help each other out. Whenever one of the girls got writer's block one girl would helped the other out. After the two drop-dead gorgeous girls finished their parts, they emailed their link to their teacher with huge smiles on their faces, hoping that the smiles would last when they saw their grade *wink wink*. The two stunning girls then lived happily ever after! The end.