Week 10b

Today in class we introduced the final assignment. We need to create a 3-5 page comic using the prompt we received from the story generator book. The Book is three sections of page and you flip the three sections and it creates a story for you. Here are the two I received:

I’m going to do the second prompt “the night before the wedding a hypochondriac hostage negotiator wakes up in a strange house”. After we received the prompts we met with three different students and discussed and expanded the ideas. When we finished with that had in class work time to work on a 900 word narrative from the prompt. Here are my notes from the meetings:

This is what I’ve written for the narrative so far:

Arnold Hostettler was a top notch hostage negotiator for the NYPD. A super genius who could read people and situations in a second and understand everything about them. From what their inseam is, too why their parents are disappointed in them. Arnold's one draw back was that he was incredibly hypochondriac, and therefore an extreme germaphobe. He was so incredibly scared of germs that he once walked 10 blocks around Manhattan to get to Chummy Bagel (the only bagel shop he’s ever been to) because he saw a man sneeze in front of him on the sidewalk. After quitting out of Harvard Law because he was disgusted with the sleezy and corrupt world of lawyers, Arnold decided to join the NYPD and use his gift for the good of the city. As a hostage negotiator Arnold was able to talk hundreds of bad guys into releasing their hostages safely. Arnold never lost a single hostage except for one. For years this lost soul huanted Arnolds dreams and he just didn’t have the strength to forgive himself. Aronld was married to the job and his lonelness and guilt lead him to a place of dispair, until he met Jane Rogers. Jane worked as a manager at Chummy Bagel and through Anolds regular visits they became familier with each other until one day Jane asked him out on a date. Their relationship blossemed and Arnold began to feel better about himself and life. He was a new man after his depresson. Jane and Arnold decided that they should get married, and after months of planning and waiting Arnold went to bed alone in his tiny brooklyn apartment the night before the wedding.  

When Arnold woke up he realized right away that the horribly stained ceiling tiles above his head weren’t the lovely eggshell plaster ceiling he was used to seeing in the morning, and on top of that it wasn’t even the morning It was only 11:45! The second clue that something wasn’t right was that he was tied to a chair instead of wrapped up in the cozy blankets on his bed. Taking stock of the situation Arnold surmised that he had been kidnapped. As Arnold was looking for a way to escape his bonds a man in a balaclave walked in.

The man begins to talk but Arnold interrupts him identifying him by name Arnold asks that the man release him.