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Topic: New Story Ideas - Break a Smurf; The Secret Life of Dreamy Smurf :)
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Richrod Smurf
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posted 12-22-2013 10:58 PM
For the past few weeks I've been busy with jobs with temp agencies, filling out college applications for master's degrees in creative writing, and assembling my first e-book, "Smurf Samplers". The latter will be available shortly.
In the meantime, here are a few more story ideas that came to me today after church and during dinner:
Break a Smurf! Papa Smurf tries to reach a bit too far for a book on the tip-top shelf of his library while holding on to a ladder, then falls down and the entire bookshelf falls on him. He's laid up in bed for several weeks with a broken leg and a nasty bump on the head. Smurfette, Papa's second-in-command, assumes interim leadership of the Smurfs on his behalf until he recovers. Everything runs smurfily until some Smurfs start complaining Smurfette doesn't do things the way Papa usually does--delegating Papa's duties to others instead of taking them on herself, not addressing others as "my little Smurfs" but as "you guys" instead, etc. The comparisons to Papa are really bugging her, and Papa finally has to roll out of bed in a wheelchair and rebuke his little Smurfs for not recognizing that Smurfette may not lead like he does, but she gets the same smurfy results. His leg mends and ultimately resumes his leadership role.
One gag is that when even best friend Vexy is complaining about how she does things, Smurfette cuts her short by pointing to her red leadership hat and calmy answering "Vexy... talk to the hat. If it ain't broke, don't smurf it." ![[Smurfette]](graemlins/smurfette.gif)
The Secret Life of Dreamy Smurf: He is always daydreaming of going on fantastic adventures, but Dreamy Smurf inspires and fires the imagination of everysmurf in the village. However, he often is so lost in his fantasies that he doesn't get any real-world work done. Papa, Grandpa and Nanny gently nudge him into balancing his priorities, but other Smurfs are a little more blunt. But when Gargamel and Azrael close in on finding the Smurf Village, Dreamy acts out in real life a swashbuckling fantasy that rallies the Smurfs and sends Gargy and cat on a wild diversion, saving our friends and their village. Dreamy's silly fantasy became a real lifesaver. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
And here's an extra:
Welcome Home, Cousin Jett: A deliberate deviation in the comic book story of the usually evil Grey Smurfs. In my fan stories they are the cousins of the Smurf Village family, albeit with a slight mean streak.
After meeting other female Smurfs in her visits to Smurf Village, the Grey Smurfette (nicknamed Cousin Jett for her jet-black hair) feels very lonely as the only girl in Smurfburg, the Grey Smurf village, and deeply longs to live with her female cousins in their village. With the blessing and encouragement of the Great Chief (the Grey Smurf leader), Jett leaves Smurfburg and moves to Smurf Village, where she is welcomed with open arms as a beloved cousin.
But it's always hard when you move to new places and things, and as much as she loves being around more smurfettes, Jett begins to miss her old home when some Smurfs make fun of her grey pupils and treat her harshly for the nasty reputation Grey Smurfs have. Vexy and Smurfette offer attentive ears and understanding hearts for their homesick cousin, and some unusual advice from Narrator Smurf based on a story he read gives Jett the strength and hope to stick it out and learn to love her new home.
Any thoughts?
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Vexy is still my favorite Smurf. Tomboys need love, too. :)
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Amy Sue Smurfette
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posted 12-23-2013 05:31 PM
i love Smurfette's reaction to Vexy too :-D "talk to the hat!" i remember when i was younger and was kinda forced into a leadership role for quite some time...i was just in my teens. one girl kept challenging my authority...constantly...driving me bananas! one night, an adult went off alone on foot. the woman was upset, but it was a bad neighborhood. this girl was insisting that she was gonna go out looking for her. we argued a bit and i finally told her that she was absolutely not going and that was final. i was shocked and amazed when she stopped arguing and huffed off to her room and stayed there. in that same place, a grown man who did not live there and who was never given any authority there tried barging in and taking control one day...i took the things from him that he was trying to confiscate and made it perfectly clear that when the head of the place was away i was in charge. he too shut his mouth and went off to play video games with one of the kids. :-D
i love the one about Dreamy. i can relate. i've always had my head in the clouds too. but i mostly have my priorities straight :-D
VERY intrigued by your Cousin Jett story! and i look forward to seeing more of it when you write it!
your stories are all so epic! seriously! :-D there has not been one yet that hasn't caught my interest and got me excited for more :-D
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we're all someone's little fangirl.
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Richrod Smurf
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posted 12-24-2013 10:54 AM
Thanks for the comment, Amy Sue! Last night when I finished up my PDF book "Smurf Samplers" I came up with an alternate origin story for Cousin Jett, the Grey Smurfette:
When visiting Smurf Village, Jett is asked by her white-hatted Smurf cousins where she came from. She smiles at Smurfette, then answers "The same way Cousin Smurfette was made." Expressing a desire to have a Smurfette of their own in the Grey Smurf village, Papa's cousin Great Chief takes Gargamel's original Smurfette formula, alters it by replacing some ingredients with petals from roses (love), sunflowers (friendliness) and daisies (happiness), along with a bright blue sapphire dipped in honey for the sweetest and smurfiest of hearts. Add just a smidgen of essence of Smurf, and Cousin Jett is born. Gargy's formula is then burned in the fireplace so that it's never replicated or used for evil intent.
But, since she lives with the Grey Smurfs and the original formula was for mischief and trouble, Jett still has a mean streak and throws fits. Which is why she and Cousin Vexy get along so well.
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Vexy is still my favorite Smurf. Tomboys need love, too. :)
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Masked Smurf
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posted 12-24-2013 06:19 PM
You know how to create good stories, holding our attention from start to finish and give wings to our imagination!
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Every day is a good surprise! [Smile] [Wink] [Big Grin] [Roll Eyes]
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Today is a good day to be Smurf! [Happy Smurf] [Wild Smurf] [King Smurf] [Astro Smurf] [Santa Smurf] [Smurfette] [Gargamel] [Azrael]
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Every day is one Surprise!
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Richrod Smurf
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posted 12-24-2013 11:23 PM
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Originally posted by masked smurf:
You know how to create good stories, holding our attention from start to finish and give wings to our imagination!
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Every day is a good surprise! [Smile] [Wink] [Big Grin] [Roll Eyes]
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Today is a good day to be Smurf! [Happy Smurf] [Wild Smurf] [King Smurf] [Astro Smurf] [Santa Smurf] [Smurfette] [Gargamel] [Azrael]
Thank you, Masked Smurf! I am humbled by your kind comments, just as Smurfette is humbled by Papa Smurf's kind comments to her as his second-in-command. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
My storytelling skills can be attributed to five people:
- Ms. Pat Kelly, my high school English teacher who made us write a short essay each morning in her Advanced Placement English class to build our writing and rhetorical skills.
- My college screenwriting professors Greg Hobson and Pam Ezell, who taught me the importance of pacing a story and keeping it to the point so that the audience's attention is kept.
- Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera of Hanna-Barbera fame, who inspired me as a child not only with the original Smurfs TV series, but just the sheer volume of imaginative cartoon characters they created and adapted from other mediums.
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