This link lists dozens of different virtues
from among which you can choose a virtue
to explain in your Shoe Boy plot.

This link explains the basic Shoe Boy plot
which your story will need to follow.

There is presented here a standard format
for submission of your Shoe Boy story.

This is an external link
to further information
about writing in the comic book genre.

Writing the story shouldn't take you long. Thirty minutes or an hour on the word processor. 300 words is not that many.

What may take you long - even weeks - is the creativeness of the story. For myself - I do this sort of thing in my head. I dream about it at night, especially when dropping off to sleep. I often dream the story all night long. I get my best thoughts first thing in the morning as I wake up or maybe a half hour later. Ideas come to me during prayer and meditation. I discuss the story with others and tell it over and over to anyone that I can find who will listen. It improves with the telling. People give thoughts and suggestions.

Someone might say - three hundred words isn't much. That is true but remember this is a story with 40 pictures and a picture communicates a thousand words. What is important is the concept and the concept is very important because what we are trying to communicate is God's healing Message for humankind.

The shortness is the beauty. Think of it as a Haiku, the three or fewer line Japanese poetry form of perfection with no more than 18 syllables in total. And regarding the restrictions of format think of the sonnet with its fourteen lines in iambic pentameter. Certainly, you have much more flexibility - than either of those disciplines.

What you say, or how you say it is not all that important. What it is that you have (possess) to say - is ALL important. What is being sought here is not execution but rather creativeness. Approximately 40 frames and 300 words. So little - but so much. Little space - but BIG ideas.

A fixed formula - like the four strings on a violin. But the variation, creativeness and skill that can be obtained therefrom is immense.

Finding examples of famous heroic individuals who applied the virtue. Understanding how other cultures view the virtue and have taught it. Finding a suitable social situation and method for Shoe Boy to communicate the virtue. All that may take considerable research, introspection and social comprehension. To think, create, ponder and meditate. THERE is the task. Execution requires but a few moments.