Creative+Writing

Before Writing
> See the page Character Development. > My story is set in present time, on an airplane in the air, somewhere on Earth. The mood is calm and boring, like most flights. > A door-to-door salesman offends an old Christian lady on a airplane. Chaos ensues.
 * 1) **List 5 positive consequences and 5 negative consequences.**
 * 2) Positive consequences:
 * 3) There would be less death, disease and suffering.
 * 4) If one person controlled the fountain, they could make a lot of money selling it.
 * 5) The person who discovered / invented the fountain would receive lots of fame (and potentially fortune.)
 * 6) It would be harder for diseases to spread, since everyone would have stronger immune systems.
 * 7) Everyone could work at very physical jobs.
 * 8) Negative consequences:
 * 9) If one person controlled the fountain, they may make it too expensive for some people to get, so only rich / privileged people would live forever.
 * 10) One country could use it to create an army of really young people, with many more young people then actually exist.
 * 11) It could lead to overpopulation of the earth, since less people would die.
 * 12) It could lead to lack of food or resources, since there would be too many people to feed / consume resources.
 * 13) One person could keep it to themselves, pretend they were a god, and many people would believe them because they never aged.
 * 14) **Describe your character.**
 * 1) **Describe the setting.**
 * 1) **What is the main conflict?**

Plot Outline
> Meanwhile, the flight attendants notify the captain that the salesman had created trouble. The captain recognizes the salesman's name and invites him into the cockpit, despite laws against it. > Meanwhile, another man pulls a bomb out of his carry on luggage, intending to blow up the plane for the cult he belongs to. He walks up to a cabin door where nobody can see him except the lady, who is also there (there are no flight attendants around because they are all taking care of the salesman at the front of the plane) and starts to set his bomb off. > Meanwhile, the air pressure is changed when the lady opens the pressurized cabin door, and the oxygen masks fall from the ceiling. Everyone is freaking out in the cabin. The lady just stands there, contemplating life. > Meanwhile, the salesman enters the cockpit to visit the pilot. They begin to talk when the salesman spills some of his water on the cabin lights control and the cabin lights go off. The flight attendants now think the salesman is a danger to everyone and physically force him out of the cockpit and begin carrying him to the back of the plane, where they keep the handcuffs. > Meanwhile, everyone in the cabin thinks the plane is crashing. When the salesman comes out of cockpit, people assume he started the crash and start yelling "terrorist!" > Meanwhile, the actual terrorist hears everyone yelling "terrorist". He thinks they are referring to him and in his shock of being caught he drops bomb out the open cabin door. > Meanwhile, the lady is preparing to jump. Suddenly, the bomb the terrorist dropped out of the door explodes, lighting up the whole sky. The lady, not knowing it is a bomb, thinks this is a sign from God and goes back to being religious. She closes the door and just stands there with a dumbstruck expression on her face. > Meanwhile, the captain announces over the announcement system that everything is fine. He states that we are not crashing, and that we were just having technical difficulties - no terrorists. He asks everyone to return to their seats. Everyone (including the lady, and the terrorist) sit back down in their seats. There is a moment of calmness and silence. Then, over the announcement system, the captain adds that also, there''s a storm at the airport, and landing has been delayed for 6 hours. Chaos ensues, but the story ends here.
 * 1) On a plane, a "snake oil salesman" and an old, very religious lady are sitting beside each other.
 * 2) The flight attendant announces that you are now allowed to unbuckle your seatbelt.
 * 3) The salesman immediately stands up in the middle of the aisle and starts trying to sell "magical water" from the fountain of youth to the other passengers. The water is obviously fake and the labels look like they were just taped on to some brand name bottled water.
 * 4) The lady who sat beside him says she does not need it because she knows that the Lord will let her live as long as she needs to. The salesman starts off on a rant about how Christian-ism is not real and there is lots of proof that it is not real. The lady is obviously offended.
 * 5) The flight attendant has now noticed and tells the salesman to stop. The salesman ignores her and continues on his rant. Multiple flight attendants pick up the salesman and bring him to the front of the plane.
 * 6) Meanwhile, the lady has been changed by the salesman's rant and abandons Christianity. She thinks that her whole life devoted to church was useless and that she wasted it. She becomes very depressed. She walks up to the nearest cabin door and opens it, thinking of jumping to commit suicide.

After Writing
> //The main character suddenly converts from a Christian to an atheist during the story, but converts back before the end. In all other aspects, she does not change at all.// > //One use of irony in the story is when the terrorist attempts to blow up the plane, killing many people, but instead creates the explosion in the sky that actually saves one person from killing themselves.// > //I could not find any symbols used in the story.// > //The theme of the story is entertainment; since there is no moral of this story, and nothing of any real emotional significance happens in the story, it's only goal is to entertain.//
 * 1) **How does the main character change over the course of the story?**
 * 1) **Describe the use of irony in your story.**
 * 1) **What symbols are present in your story?**
 * 1) **What is the theme of your story?**