Writer's Block

One writer, one keyboard, 5 Lyoko warriors. What could possible go wrong?

Disclaimer: Code Lyoko was created by Tania Palumbo and Thomas Romain. It was produced by Antefilms and then by MoonScoop. It is aired in France by France 3 and in America by Cartoon Network. With the exception of Chris the Writer, the author is neither employed by or affiliated with any of the above companies or entities.


Chris pulled out his laptop and fired up his favorite word processing program. For days he kept reading tons of Code Lyoko fanfic and it had been inspiring. The more he read, the more his imagination had run wild with fantastic stories about Kadic and the digital world of Lyoko. The characters from his favorite show were all written perfectly and the situations were all exciting and fun to read. After countless stories were read, Chris felt it was time to add a story of his own. His eyes pointed towards the blank page on the screen. His fingers were placed on the keys on the keyboard. Without hesitation, Chris was ready to begin.

One hour later...

Chris took his fingers away from the keyboard and rubbed his eyes. After an hour of pure concentration, he turned towards the screen again to see what kind of work the hour had produced.

Nothing.

Not a single letter, let alone word, was written on the screen. Not even a title or author name were present. Chris was not pleased at all. He so desperately wanted to add a Lyoko story of his own and yet he could not even come up with a plot or situation to base the story off of. He needed some inspiration to get some creative juices flowing. He fired up his web browser hoping to get back to the fanfic site and find the inspiration there. Unfortunately, his Internet provider was having technical issues, giving Chris nothing but a blank screen. Undaunted, he closed the web browser and opened up his folder full of Code Lyoko episodes. He picked an episode at random and sat back in his chair, enjoying what turned out to be the latest episode.

Twenty-three minutes passed and Chris' plan had worked. He clicked to the word processing program again and placed his hands on the keyboard. Remembering a trick his elementary school English teacher had taught him, he began to list out his main characters.

Aelita Schaeffer
Yumi Ishiyama
Jeremie Belpois
Ulrich Stern
Odd Della Robbia

He took his hands off the keyboard, glad that he was finally able to get somewhere with his writing.

"OK, now what?"