DADDY: I’m writing a story. It’s for something called nanowrimo.
M: What’s your story about?
D: Two brothers. One needs the other’s help with something. I’m just starting out. Want to help?
M: Okay. How about one brother needs the other’s help to go back to when people went to the moon. Like time travel.
D: That’s... That’s actually better than what I was thinking. How about I help you write your own story?
M: Okay. One brother and one sister. The brother needs help from his sister to use the time machine to go back into the time when people went to the moon. Because astronauts don’t go to the moon anymore today. When did people go, I mean when was the last time people went to the moon?
D: I’m not sure. Before I was born, anyway. Want me to look it up?
M: Yes.
D: Looks like it was 1972.
M: Okay, they had to go back to then. To one nine seven two.
D: What should we name the brother?
M: I’m thinking Mike. Like you. I like it.
D: Okay I like that too. How about the sister?
M: I think we should name the sister… what do you think?
D: Monkeyface.
M: No, not Monkeyface. I think we should name her Magenta.
D: So why are they going to the moon?
M: To discover Commander Zoom. You know, the guy from the song. From the birthday song. I think that’s a good idea.
D: I love it. You should come up with your own hero though. Someone already wrote Commander Zoom. What’s your story? Who is Mike and Magenta’s Commander Zoom?
M: Okay, how about Zoonth? She’s a good guy and she lives on the moon. It’s a girl. She’s Commander Zoom’s wife! They need Zoonth to go to Mars and fix Curiosity because Mike and Magenta can’t go on Mars, but Zoonth can.
D: How do they know about Zoonth?
M: They looked her up on the computer. People can’t go to Mars and they need to help Curiosity on Mars, so they looked on the computer for ideas and they found out about Zoonth.
D: Okay, are you ready to write the story?
M: Yes, here it is:
TIME TRAVELING SISTER AND BROTHER
by Maeve Garvey
Once upon a time, there were two grown-ups that were sister and brother. One was a lawyer and had to travel back in time. And the sister was a nurse. The lawyer never ever needed help in his entire life. But THIS time he needed help to travel back when people were on the moon in 1972. He did not know how to go back that far. In fact, he never went farther than that. But the sister did because sometimes she had to travel back with the sick people so some people in the olden days can help. And she went back farther than her brother so she knew how to work the time machine.
But sometimes they had a fight because they had to use the same time machine. Some bad guys broke all the time machines and there was only one left in the whole world because the brother and sister hid it. They had the last ever time machine.
Before all of that, everyone had time machines. Some families had two time machines. One day bad guys came and took them all except Mike and Magenta hid one of their time machines and the bad guys didn’t know they had two time machines.
The bad guys were named Boovi, Noovi and Shoovi. They all have different powers. Boovi had the power to make it rain. Noovi could
M: Daddy, mom is calling me. Stop now and we can finish it tomorrow, okay?
D: To be continued…
This is so much better than anything I've ever written.
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