Writing Exercise 3

Take a story and change the ages and genders of everybody you had in mind for it.

You see, a problem with doing these exercises are pretty much that I need to think up something new every single time. Creativity for me is a limited resource and I can feel my tank going empty, and it's only my third exercise...which is problematic. 

For this one, I had to actually take a walk to find some inspirations. Reasons are mostly because the ideas that first appear in my mind are niché subjects, like a certain cartoon or a specific novel. But that's not fun to read for the general population. It should be about something that everyone knows about. So...what famous stories are there that I haven't used yet? There's obviously tons of them, but I haven't watched so many of the classics to be honest. I haven't for example seen "The Godfather" which makes some of my friends really angry.

During my walk, I passed a cinema and simply glanced at some of their biggest posters which were about Marvel or DC super heroes, and Disney.

I already touched on super heroes before, so why not try Disney?

Which one should I write about? Which one would be the most fun to switch around the ages on? Well...why not Moana? Imagine Moana as an adult in search of Maoi the legendary hero only to find out that Maoi is a small and curious child that often communicates by pointing and saying one word at a time?

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"Maoi. Dont!" said Moana with a stern voice while once again removing the chicken from the child. It was the third time in a span of an hour and the chicken with no self-preservation skills looked as oblivious as before.

When Moana removed the chicken from Maoi's mouth the baby's face turned sour and the rosy cheeks puffed up unsatisfactory. 

"Taste like chicken," Maoi said accusingly.

"Yes Maoi," answered Moana with a sigh. "Heihei taste like chicken, but Heihei is a friend."

"Chicken is food." said Maoi matter of factly.

"Not all chicken is food," responded Moana and tried to think up something that could help her arguments. "You know that some chicken lays eggs?"

Maoi closed his eyes in deep concentration, and when the answer dawned upon him he squealed: "HEN!"

"Exactly, the chicken that lay eggs are called hen," said Moana while applauding. "If you eat the hen, you won't get eggs. Do you like eggs, Maoi?"

"Yes!"

"So if you eat Heihei, Heihei can't lay eggs. Then no eggs for Maoi," explained Moana sadly.

"Heihei is hen?" asked Maoi.

"Yes, Heihei is hen." said Moana.

"Then Maoi wait for eggs," said Maoi with a nod.

"Very good Maoi." said Moana with a smile and gave Maoi a pat on the head.

It's been four days now since Moana found the legendary warrior, the thing is that the legends seemed to have a few details wrong. The heroic feats are certainly right, especially the shape-shifting. But the age was...problematic.

Moana heard a zap and when she turned around a small squid greeted her with gusto by jumping up to her face and spraying ink on her.

"Maoi, stop!" screamed Moana enraged which the squid responded with laughter.
This is going to be a very special journey...