day 21 required and bonus

Tuesday, Oct. 21

Required: Freestyle Brainstorm ▼



Spend at least fifteen minutes writing whatever ideas come to you about your plot, characters and setting.





Matilda wakes up and readies herself for Birch Valley Junior High School. She had been cramping for days, and things were changing all around her. The lights and electric around her seems to become out of control. A fifteen year old girl isn’t very happy when she tries to button her favorite pair of jeans to find that they will not latch around her swollen stomach. How could she have gained so much weight in just a week? She throws the pants against the wall, and the lights go out simultaneously.  “Stupid light blew!” she yells to her mother as she leaves her bedroom slamming the door hard behind her.

On her way out of the room, she notices that the light came back on. She still was unaware of what was going on around her. She was becoming hormonal. Her powers were in as much of a hectic mess as her emotions at this phrase. Closing the door, she realized that she forgot her brush on her bed. However when she tried to open the door it was locked. She had not locked it. She had just closed. “Crap, I am going to be late for the bus.” She shouted to Sarah. “I need a ride to school, Mom.” Matilda takes a penny from her pocket and succeeded in getting her hair brush.

Sarah waits for Matilda to come down from her room. She had noticed that her daughter was so emotional. She could feel the atmosphere grown chaotic when Matilda had a bad day, or the way the electronics in the house would react when she was depressed.

Matilda ran down the stairs. The television turns on and blasts from the living room. Sarah waves her hand toward the doorway and the sound stops.

“Matilda,” Sarah begins as they walk to Anna’s next door. Anna had a car. Due to the fact that Sarah never learned to drive, Anna was “the go to person” for transportation. “You know that you are a powerful young woman. You might not realize that it takes more effort during puberty to control your power.”

“I have not cast a spell for a long time. I have had tests, homecoming, and a report on the Colonel America due this Friday. I have not done anything with magick. I have thought about using a spell to make life a little easier.”

Sarah and Matilda reach Anna’s. Damion answers.

         

Bonus: Extended Brainstorm ▼



Add at least fifteen additional minutes to your freestyle brainstorming time.

Matilda lays on the cold OBGYN table. Her legs were in the strips, and her belly bare covered with KY-jelly. Damion holds her hand as the couple watch the monitor. Forgetting that she was wearing an uncomfortable gown, she notices something different on the computer screen. Damion must have noticed that there was something wrong the same time as his wife because he squeezed her hand.

“What’s that?” He dared to ask what Matilda had dared not to say. He pointed to two small fuzzy figures moving.

“Well, Mr. and Mrs. ___________________.” The Dr. Jerries smiles. “Listen closely. Do you hear it?”

“Hear?” Matilda was so nervous that she didn’t hear the calmness in the doctor’s voice.

“Two heart beats.” The room became quiet as all ears were honed in to try to make out two distinct beats from what sounded like drum beats. “There that is one. There is the other.” He points to the peanut-like images that was on the screen. “You are having two little girls.”

Damion looks at Matilda and kisses her. “I hope that they look as beautiful as you.” Both parents have tears in their eyes.