Writing Your Story

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  All right, writers, Are you ready to get going on

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  your story?

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  The first thing that you're gonna really need is a

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  plan. One way to attack this piece of writing is

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  to draw it.

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  Here is a sketch of my stripper superhero.

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  Uh, I'm gonna call her Earth girl.

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  I think, um, I have to think about what really

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  matters to her.

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  Maybe I think that what really matters to Herb is

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  single use plastics.

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  So I'm gonna write that on the top of my

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  page big letters, because it's really important to her.

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  And I'm gonna think about, like, why?

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  Why does this matter to her?

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  Well, maybe she was walking around, and then she saw

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  birds thinking that they had food and they were actually

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  beating their babies Plastic.

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  So would write on this bird's beating plastic.

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  Two babies.

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  That's terrible.

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  I can write that right on my paper just like

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  that. So we're ready to go, and it's a terrible

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  thing to have happen.

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  So she's got to be ready to fix this whole

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  thing. This makes her so mad that she is good.

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  She's vowing it's never gonna happen again.

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  She never wants to see that again.

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  That's what matters to her in her heart.

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  So I would write that never again, she said.

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  And I would write that right, right, pointing right at

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  her heart cause that's what matters to her.

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  And she's always thinking about ways to keep single use

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  plastics out of our environment.

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  So she swoops through her neighborhood, teaching about why these

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  things are dangerous so Herb means of fighting is teaching.

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  And so I would write that on my paper as

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  well. Let's see.

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  What is it, though, that scares her?

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  She's really gonna have something that it means something to

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  her. She's a She's a frightened of something that's her

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  motivating factor.

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  And I think that it's gonna be people thinking that

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  what they do doesn't matter.

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  So when people say to her, it doesn't matter.

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  That really bothers her and frightened, sir, because it does

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  matter, doesn't it?

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  Once you're done, then you have a sketch of your

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  person. But the thing is, I think it's kind of

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  lame to not have some colors, so I'm gonna go

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  ahead and color her because I want her to be

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  interesting. I think she's gonna be really fashionable with the

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  blue shirt in some red shorts.

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  And even though Edna Mode says no capes, I think

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  that she definitely needs a cape because she is Earth

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  girl. There needs to be a big green e on

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  it for Earth girl.

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  And let's see, she needs a face.

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  So draw a face on there and I think that

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  she needs tohave orange hair.

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  So color that in.

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  And as you can see, it doesn't need to be

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  perfect. I mean, look at her face.

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  It's totally okay, though.

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  This is a sketch.

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  And now I have a better idea in my head

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  of who Earth girl is.

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  Once I have all that I need to think of

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  the situation that I'm gonna put Earth girl in.

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  I need to think of a small moment story that

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  I can tell in my video.

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  One thing that you can do here is to make

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  a storyboard that looks like this, Um, what you're gonna

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  be doing in that is thinking How did you meet

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  Earth girl?

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  How does her problem come up?

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  What does she do to fight the problem?

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  And how does everything get resolved?

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  So I'm gonna go ahead and write that on mine.

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  Let's see, Maybe my story starts with her walking down

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  the streets and she sees a hot dog vendor.

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  And that hot dog vendor is selling hot dogs with

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  Styrofoam containers.

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  And those aren't really reusable.

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  It's had a hot dog in it, and they take

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  forever to biodegrade.

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  This is a terrible thing.

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  Um, let's see.

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  She thinks that this is unacceptable, obviously.

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  And so she swoops over to the hot dog cart

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  and she confronts the owner and she tells him, No,

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  um, this is not okay.

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  What do you doing, man?

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  You gotta knock it off.

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  And he's like, What's the big deal?

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  This is her biggest fear.

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  It doesn't matter what I do.

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  It's just I'm just one hot dog vendor.

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  This is a huge city.

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  There's all kinds of people selling all kinds of things.

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  I'm just one guy.

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  So she's gonna take him around the city.

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  So she takes the note, not the bus.

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  She has a cape.

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  She can fly clearly.

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  All right.

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  I had this bus idea, but that's no good.

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  We're gonna do this.

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  She's gonna fly around the city, and then she's gonna

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  show the hot dog guy, Um oh, of the people

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  all over the city and talk to him about what

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  would happen if everyone was using Styrofoam and what that

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  would look like.

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  And then he has a realization like, Oh, yeah, maybe

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  this is not something I should be doing.

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  And she helps him come up with the idea for

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  compostable paper wrappers.

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  And so he's able to keep his hot dogs clean

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  insanitary. But he's also able to not use the Styrofoam,

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  which was terrible.

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  Um, you can have some sketches in there, too.

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  And when you're done and you're good to go, you

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  have your storyboard.

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  The great thing about this story board is that this

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  didn't take me very long.

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  And if I have a change of heart, if I

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  think that I have a better idea, it's really easy

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  to cross something off into change it around.

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  It's not like I'm deleting my entire story.

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  I'm just switching an idea before I write the whole

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  thing. By creating a storyboard, I have a plan for

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  what my story is gonna look like.

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  Um, I mean, think about when I gave her superpowers.

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  That was easy to d'oh.

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  Um Once you have your plan, get going.

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  Writing your story.

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  And I cannot wait to see all the things that

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  you come up.