Last blog, I talked about an exercise, one in which you come up with the most useless super powers you can imagine then figure out a way to make them useful. Over the last week, my kids and I brainstormed different ways to use this idea in an actual story.
We've come up with the hint of an idea that needs to be fleshed out: a superhero team of nerdy outcast kids with all but useless powers who find a way to fight off danger with their amazingly useless skills. What about a kid who can sense and manipulate guacamole and only guacamole? This would seem useless, especially since he can't stand avocados. Except one day, a guacamole monster comes to town. Say there's a kid who can hear what animals think but can't say anything back? This would seem fairly useless unless there's a danger coming to town that all animals sense but people cannot. How about the kid who can teleport only an inch? This may become useful if he's trying to get through glass, pass laser beams, and generally break through very thin boundaries. What happens when the picked-on crowd becomes awesome? That could make for a really interesting story. If you didn't try this two weeks ago, try it now. If you did brainstorm, take your brainstorms and turn them into a story.
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