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Writing a superhero story for kids involves a few unique considerations to ensure it’s engaging, understandable, and appropriate for the audience. Here is a short Superhero Kid Story Workshop: Simplify the Plot: While the story can still have depth, ensure the plot is straightforward and easy for children to follow.
- Complete this sentence in at least ten different ways: If I were a superhero…
- Would you rather be a superhero or a supervillain? Explain your answer.
- If you could meet one superhero, who would it be and why?
- Design and describe your own superhero. What would their special powers be? What about their weaknesses? And don’t forget to give them a cool name and a costume.
- In a post-apocalyptic world where time is running out for the last remaining humans, two superheroes must put their differences aside to find a way to save humanity before it's too late.
- A superhero must find a way to stop a mad scientist from launching a rocket that will release a deadly virus into the atmosphere within the next 24 hours.
- In a race against the clock, a veteran superhero and a rookie sidekick must put their differences aside to stop a mad scientist from detonating a doomsday device.
- A hero and their time-traveling adversary are stuck in a small town in the past and must find a way back to the present.
- Forget About The Hero’S Journey
- Make The Superhero Story Vicarious
- Make Superheroes Relatable
- Make The Hero Someone You Root and Cheer For
- Make The Superhero A Reflection of Their World
- Never Subvert The Superhero’S Moral Code
- Make The Superhero The Solution to His Own Problem
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The hero’s journey is one of those holdovers from literature that has caused more damage to the superhero genre than any other trope I could imagine. Literature, just like any other genre, has its own rules. Unfortunately for many writers, they are taught to believe that literary rules apply across the board. And, if those rules are ignored, then i...
Let’s face it, superheroes are escapist literature. Nothing wrong with that, despite what the creative writing professors would have you believe. People do in fact read for entertainment. One way they are entertained is by getting thrills doing things that they’re normally not able to do. Whether this is swinging between skyscrapers on a slender sp...
Peter Parker is a teenager. Bruce Wayne is a man dealing with the loss of his parents. Clark Kent is an immigrant, and a small-town boy dealing with the big city. Wonder Woman dreams of the world beyond Paradise Island. All of these heroes have endured in no small part because readers see something reflected of themselves in those characters. Super...
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They say that Superman is Metropolis, and Batman is Gotham. Both of these heroes fit perfectly into their cities. You can’t switch these characters around and have the stories remain entertaining. The cognitive dissonance readers would feel from having the cosmic Boy Scout of Superman dealing with the machinations of Gotham’s super villains would o...
Every character has a moral code. It may not necessarily be a good moral code but it is still there. It’s that moral code that helps define the character to the readers, and done right, can give the readers the opportunity to root for that character. Although it’s considered trendy nowadays in comic book writing to try to subvert that moral code by...
Back in the bad old days of the 1970s and 1980s, television writers would sometimes write themselves into a corner and so they would have to come up with solutions in a real hurry. If they were writing superhero stories, the solution was to give the superhero a brand-new power. If they were writing science fiction, then the solution was to come up ...
Well, that’s seven tips to start with for writing good superhero stories. There are many, many more. Let me know what you think in the comments below.
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