Well, this happened: I summoned my not so little brother, Malachai, famed co-creator of Axe Cop to write the final chapter of Bill Weevil. Unfortunately the video I recorded turned out so bad, including the audio, that is was unusable. So we tried to do another record and this time did not use video, but the audio ended up being so bad I again have nothing. So, as bummed as I was to not have it, I decided to just post the story we came up with and give up on the video and aud

This week I use a video Paulie and his son Louis made for chapter 7. This is the kind of thing I love to see. Parents making up stories with their kids. Please, do what they did, make me a video of you and your kid making something up. I would love that. Here's the latest installment of Bill Weevil. I'm not even going to try to write it up because it would lose the effect of how many times Louis changes his mind. Please submit your ideas not only for what happens next, but ho

How's that for a dark title? Well this week's chapter of Bill Weevil comes via Parveneh, age 5. I did things a little different this week. I called Parveneh and I let her write this chapter. I did my first ever edited video in Adobe Premiere, so I apologize for the wrong aspect ration, and my bad video which came as a result of some kind of setting on my skype recording software. I'm learning. Regardless, this is a really funny video and you really get to see the process. You

Thanks to Lily (age 9) for contributing to this chapter. This story is written by me and readers like you, and especially kids if you've got them. Just tell me where you want to see the story go next! Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg Chapter 5 Bill used his long Weevil snout to sniff the air. He was trying to find something stinky that the flies would be attracted to. He found a smell and took the creature with the purple eyes with him. They ended up at the City Dump. "You can

Thanks to Ian (age 6) and Norah (age 4) for contributing to this chapter. Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg Chapter 4 The creature with the purple eyes ate Bill's neighbor and his fluffy little dog, but he didn't stop there. He went on to eat an old lady named Margaret. "No, don't eat Margaret too!" Bill shouted. The creature with the purple eyes kept on eating people. He ate the mail man, a jogger, a mom pushing a stroller and three soccer players. No matter how much Bill yelle

Thanks to Ian (age 6) and Dylan (age 10) for this week's ideas. Check out their art at the end of this blog. Rather than credit them per line in this chapter, I'll talk about each of their ideas at the end. Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg Chapter 3 The big, purple, egg hatched. Out came a creature with a long neck and purple eyes. It looked like it was part frog, part ostrich and part dragon. "What is this, some kind of alien?!" Bill shouted. Suddenly it stood up. Its legs wer

The next installment of Bill Weevil is here. Thanks to Dylan for this week's ideas. If you sent ideas in, don't worry, I may be saving them for later in the story. If you haven't sent ideas in, please do! Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg Chapter 2 Finally Bill decided to carry the big, purple egg inside. He wrapped it with blankets to keep it warm and waited for it to hatch. (Dylan, 10) It didn't hatch all night, or the next morning. So Bill went to work because he had to do hi

I got enough responses saying that the Cherry family story felt finished, and I was eager to start a new one, that I decided it was time to move on. This time, I am going to start the story myself, then readers take it from there. I will introduce a character with a flaw, a dream and an "inciting incident". That's screenwriter talk for a thing that pops up in a character's life that forces them to change. It's what throws the character into their adventure. The other differen