My story..

Ame

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Hope you like it. Yes I know the main concept has been stolen, but I changed it to give a more dramatic feel which I think can help you give a real understanding to the psychology to the characters, and really increases the climax of the ending. Enjoy.



Once apon a time in the early 17th century there was a small orphoned peasent who had a balloon which was given to him by his late uncle as a dying wish which was conjured into existance for the purpose of my story, and this and nothing more.

One dark autumn day he lost the balloon in a series of tornados, thunderstorms and very very bad sneeze fits from his orphoned sister who had some very bad form of influenza!

He ventured far and wide in search for his only companion - the balloon.

Was it behind the retarded rhino? He took a quick glance. No.

Was it in the crocodiles mouth? He asked an adult for help, like if he was using a pair of scissors to cut something, which states that you need an adult to help you to cut the something mentioned. The adult opened the tame crocodiles mouth, and noticed in the dark cavernous depths, the non-existance of the balloon. Nope it wasn't there.

Was it behind the giraffe? Once again the adventerous child ran around the murderous giraffe and saw no sign of his belloved balloon. No it wasn't there either.

Was it in the evil tigers lair? The details of this expedition into the evil tigers lair is too graphic and gory to mention, and you are not allowed to know until the age of 75 the full details. In short: itt wasn't there either!

In failure, he decided to give up, when miracously he spotted a monkey playing games in a tree. He looked up the tree, and oh look! The monkey has it up the tree.

They all drank lemonade and lived happily ever after.

The end.
 

septic

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What sort of balloon was it? Was it one of those fancy animal or heart shaped ones with the fancy ribbon, or was it just an ordinary party balloon that they sell in Pound Land for a bag of fifty?

PS. I knew the monkey had it.....Always the fucking monkey.
I'm tired....Night :(
 

Ame

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septic said:
What sort of balloon was it? Was it one of those fancy animal or heart shaped ones with the fancy ribbon, or was it just an ordinary party balloon that they sell in Pound Land for a bag of fifty?

PS. I knew the monkey had it.....Always the fucking monkey.
I'm tired....Night :(
This was my first draft, so I'm always open to comments and suggestions on how to improve it such as additional descriptive information on the characters or objects mentioned throughout.
 

Outlander

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whats point of all this?

edit: oh its a poor mans version of the childrens book they made in Black Books :p
 

Ame

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Outlander said:
whats point of all this?

edit: oh its a poor mans version of the childrens book they made in Black Books :p
"Yes I know the main concept has been stolen"

I made it a bit more enjoyable for the older readers.

But it sucks imo. Felt like a good idea at the time.
 

Job

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Not bad
you left the reader on the 'end of a piece of string' for a bit, then the whole thing blew up into a nice shape, but after the knotty plot was untied it all went a bit deflated.
It needed a sharp incision of something to help it go off with a bang.
 

Ezteq

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tbh its sweet but you need some really good funny art work to go alongside the story, dont give up though and sod the thing of "this might e familiar" nearly all childrens books are a bit plagerised(sp?) but its the presentation that counts, not joking though get some illustrations, dont know what your like at drawing but it doesnt have to be perfect just that i always find pictures compliment funny short stories a lot more than extra words which are used as padding.

keep it up though dont get all "oh its pants" cos its not.

so there.
 

Ame

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Ezteq said:
tbh its sweet but you need some really good funny art work to go alongside the story, dont give up though and sod the thing of "this might e familiar" nearly all childrens books are a bit plagerised(sp?) but its the presentation that counts, not joking though get some illustrations, dont know what your like at drawing but it doesnt have to be perfect just that i always find pictures compliment funny short stories a lot more than extra words which are used as padding.

keep it up though dont get all "oh its pants" cos its not.

so there.
Paint-produced stick images INC
 

Ame

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noblok said:
This one's even worse than stick images, but what the hell... you guessed it, it's artpad
Excellent. I feel like releasing this to Hollywood as a new movie or something. Else writing a trilogy on this boy's life.

Still need to get past draft 1 on this stupid first book though :D. Think I'm going to add a cliffhanger at the end, and a weird twist where you find out the orphoned sister is actually his mother in disguise!
 

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Afran said:
I don't get it :(

I don't even get if there's anything to get...

Either
(a) its fiendishly clever alegorical symbolism encompassing pre-homeric themes against the backdrop of man's inhumanity to man

(b) or....its utter bollocks.

:D
 

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Lamp said:
I don't even get if there's anything to get...

Either
(a) its fiendishly clever alegorical symbolism encompassing pre-homeric themes against the backdrop of man's inhumanity to man

(b) or....its utter bollocks.

:D
How does a) relate to my story in any way? :x

Its about a kid, who looses a balloon. He then looks for it, and with an ironic break of tradition, he finds it.
 

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