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ravensweptSo you know when you ask a little kid to tell you a story, and often it involves little more than just whatever they make up right then and there? That's the concept behind And Then.
Part story, part MST3K, part meta, AT would be a short children's book where anything can and will... make no sense. Ideally it would have lots of pictures, as part of the fun of the story would be seeing what's being told at the same time as things get changed due to story convience.
It would most likely start fairly simply, a young boy is asked to tell a story. So he starts simply, a boy on a farm. Who decides to become a hero. With his pet dog. Who is really a wolf. Who is really big enough to ride on. Because horses are for girls.
He decides to go slay a dragon. Because that's what heros do. And then the dragon comes to him!
A big green dragon?
It's not a green dragon. It's gold.
Why gold
Because. And they fight! And the dragon opens his mouth and-
Breathes fire.
No! A cannon appears! Because it's not a real dragon! It's a flying pirate ship that only looks like a dragon.
And so on and so forth. And yes, the idea would be that the "adult" being told said story interjects here and there just to question the train of logic of a five year old; the pictures, when not picturing the story, would be from our, the reader's, point of view, so we're looking down at our story teller from time to time.
Spoiler warning, if you really care enough, the ending would ideally be a non-ending. The whole things just builds and builds til it's a huge two-page or more spread of a epic battle of awesome until the kid just runs out of steam with,
"And then... and then... everything exploded.
...
BOOM!" with his hands up, laughing, running around and out the door. The last bit would have the kid leaning in from the door long enough to say "TheendI'mgonnaplayoutsidenow,okaybye."
Yeah. That's it. That's my latest story idea.
....
BOOM!
Part story, part MST3K, part meta, AT would be a short children's book where anything can and will... make no sense. Ideally it would have lots of pictures, as part of the fun of the story would be seeing what's being told at the same time as things get changed due to story convience.
It would most likely start fairly simply, a young boy is asked to tell a story. So he starts simply, a boy on a farm. Who decides to become a hero. With his pet dog. Who is really a wolf. Who is really big enough to ride on. Because horses are for girls.
He decides to go slay a dragon. Because that's what heros do. And then the dragon comes to him!
A big green dragon?
It's not a green dragon. It's gold.
Why gold
Because. And they fight! And the dragon opens his mouth and-
Breathes fire.
No! A cannon appears! Because it's not a real dragon! It's a flying pirate ship that only looks like a dragon.
And so on and so forth. And yes, the idea would be that the "adult" being told said story interjects here and there just to question the train of logic of a five year old; the pictures, when not picturing the story, would be from our, the reader's, point of view, so we're looking down at our story teller from time to time.
Spoiler warning, if you really care enough, the ending would ideally be a non-ending. The whole things just builds and builds til it's a huge two-page or more spread of a epic battle of awesome until the kid just runs out of steam with,
"And then... and then... everything exploded.
...
BOOM!" with his hands up, laughing, running around and out the door. The last bit would have the kid leaning in from the door long enough to say "TheendI'mgonnaplayoutsidenow,okaybye."
Yeah. That's it. That's my latest story idea.
....
BOOM!