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 audio for now. I am hoping once I figure out how to record skype calls to have Malachai on again. He really likes what we are doing here at RMSC.

So here it is, courtesy of Malachai Nicolle, age 12, the finale of Bill Weevil.

Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg

Chapter 8

Bill had been praying for a long time "God, lend me your power and change my life". That was when he heard angels singing outside his house and that egg appeared on his porch.

B...

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 how it ends. I'm ready to end this story!:

Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg

Chapter 7

What happens next? Submit your idea for THE ENDING.

• Will Bill ever get to Australia?

• What is their plan to get the monsters back? How do they use the money?

• Do the creatures grow into anything since they are both so young? 

Please submit answers, drawings and any ideas here by Friday July 22nd at midnight to make it into the next chapter. H...

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 don't even need to read the story below, but I will include it as well.  Here's the video:

Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg

Chapter 6

After Bill left, the owner of the dump came out and saw the monster in his junkyard eating flies.

He yelled, "Hey monster! I will kick you in the butt!"

Then he said, "I'll throw you out of the junkyard in a little baby cage!" So he put the monster in a little cage and tossed them, shouting, "I'll hav...

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 live here and eat all the flies you want!" said Bill. The creature seemed happy and so did Bill. 

What happens next?

• Is this the end? Will Bill ever get to Australia?

• Does Bill ever come visit the creature?

• What does the owner of the dump think of a creature living in his junkyard eating flies??

Kid's answers are favored, but all answers are considered.

Please submit answers, drawings and any ideas here by Sunday July 17th...

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 yelled, the creature just kept on eating people, slurping them up with his stretchy tongue.

Finally, a policeman came over when he saw the creature eating people. "Stop eating people!" shouted the officer. But the creature ate him too.

 "This has to stop!" Bill yelled. Then he realized that there was no one else around to eat. The creature looked at Bill with his purple eyes, then licked his lips. "Oh no," Bill said. "You're going to eat me n...

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 were much longer than Bill expected. Then it spit out a long, sticky tongue that shot out like a whip and grabbed a lamp.

 "Put down my lamp!" Bill yelled as he tried to tug it away from the thing's sticky tongue. Once Bill got the lamp away he set it down and said, "that's enough trouble out of you," and he kicked the long legged, sticky tongued, purple eyed creature out of his house.

"Go eat someone else's lamps!" Bill shou...

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 his job.

 Bill worked the most boring job on earth as the guy who made all the homework sheets for school.

(Dylan, age 10)

That day he sat in his office and stared at the picture of Australia and thought about the egg. What if the thing in the egg could fly him there? What if it was a monster who came out and ate people?

The more he thought about it, the more Bill wasn't sure he wanted the purple egg to hatch. What if it just brought...

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 difference is, this time around I am going to start with a title. So, here goes. I present to you...

Bill Weevil and the Purple Egg

Chapter 1

This is Bill Weevil. He is a very lonely Weevil. He doesn't have very many friends and he spends a lot of time at home by himself. That's why Bill Weevil is usually very, very bored.

His favorite thing to do is sit in his favorite chair and read books about Australia. Bill has always wanted to v...

I didn't have much to go on for this next Chapter, then Xander and Cash sent in an excellent contribution and saved the day! 

Chapter 5

Finding Fuzzy

The Lonely Cat Man's Wife's name was Fuzzy (Mason, age 7)

She worked at a volcano. (Xander, age 4)

They went to the volcano to talk to her about the fight she had with her husband, but she was too busy.

So Donedee the shark and a red ninja helped the Cherry family to put out the lava with lots of water so that the wife would have to come out and meet them. (Xander, age 4)

When Fuzzy came out, they invited her to go to Disneyland with the husband because it's magical. (Cash, age 3)

When she met her husband at Disney Land, they had him give her a blind surprise bag with a toy train inside because she likes trains. (Cash, age 3)

After that, they were back in love, and decided the boy could watch the boy movie, and the girl could watch the girl movie. (...

I love where this is going. It has all those things I love about stories made up by kids. A combination real sweetness and heartbreaking tragedy. Thanks to everyone who contributed this time around, I think this is a nice combination of responses. Some of you sent in very similar responses, which was interesting.

Chapter 4:

The Lonely Cat Man

The Cherry family went to the man's house who sent them the box full of bad guys, to find out why he was mad at them.

He had a lot of cats. (Ally, age 10)

It turned out that the guy played a joke on them to get them to come to his house so he could have them over for dinner. It was a surprise birthday party for their hamster, Banana. (Madilyn, age 7)

His name was Tim. (Ally, age 10)

The Cherry family thought this was very nice. "How did you know Banana's birthday?" asked Emily. Tim said he just looked it up on the hamster birthday calendar.

But Martha said that...