Almost, part 1: "One way or the other"

At the end of the story, I decided to make Norman and Connie’s child be a girl. In pretty much all of the post-Psycho IV FanFics I’ve read, Norman has a son. I decided to spice it up and give him a daughter.

Sue's Corner, part 1: "It’s not me, it’s Sue"

I started this story because I thought it’d be funny to see how Sue would solve the world’s problems. I was mainly, obviously, inspired by “Sue’s Corner” on Glee. Just keep in mind that I wrote the chapters from the point-of-view of Sue Sylvester, and that I’m not normally that… Sue-ish. The whole story is written like “What would Sue say?”

Rules for Being a Horror Movie Character, part 1: "It’s all so cliché"

I came up with the idea of rules for surviving as a horror movie character one evening after one of my younger sister’s school choir concerts. We’d come home after it ended, and I saw a Turner Classic Movies channel special about Stephen King talking about the movies that influenced his writing style. At one point, he mentioned horror movie clichés, so I created my own list of these stereotypes and clichés and made them into a horror movie survival guide.

Fairvale, Part 15: "Forest chase"

There’s one scene I was going to put in Fairvale that didn’t end up making the cut. Toby was at McDonald’s and saw Duke, who chased Toby through the forest. It never made it into the story because I forgot the scene, and I realized that the forest wouldn’t match the geography of the town. A scene with Toby at a fast-food restaurant ended up being the tomato incident.

A Summer Story, or, The Lewis Story, Part 2: "The end"

I came up with the end of the story sometime between finishing section 8 and starting section 9. I thought it would be funny to put an unusual twist on the idea of the main character waking up to find that the whole story was just a dream.

A Summer Story, or, The Lewis Story, Part 1: "Anachronisms"

Sure, the story is ridiculous to begin with. One way I added to the insanity is to use anachronisms. I started writing the story in the summer of 2005, just before starting 8^th grade. Some of the people I added as characters are people I hadn’t met or heard of until high school. Situations or music I used in the story wouldn’t have happened until well after the story takes place, in the summer of 2006.

The Chronicles of Stuff, Part 1: "The inspiration"

I came up with the story when playing the Nintendo GameCube version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I was scrolling through the different levels on the Wardrobe menu when I remembered that I’d read that the pictures on the wardrobe were put on it by Professor Kirke to commemorate important events from The Magician’s Nephew. I decided to use the Wardrobe and other objects from Narnia to use as the narrators and inspiration for a series of poems and short stories.