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I told Rowley he was gonna have to go back and get MORE, but he said that was all they had. He said maybe he could call up Scotty Douglas down the street to see if He had any chocolate chips, and that sounded like a pretty good plan to me. But when Rowley picked up the phone, I noticed he was leaving chocolaty fingerprints EVERYWHERE. I knew if Dad found ONE of Rowley's fingerprints in the kitchen, I was dead. So we got some paper towels and started wiping down the whole kitchen.

When we ran out of paper towels, I went into the laundry room to get some more. But when I I made a HUGE discovery. I found Mom's entire stash of leftover Halloween candy tucked behind the rolls of paper towels. There were five unopened bags in there, and it was ALL stuff I like.

I figured I'd give Rowley a few packets of gummy worms for helping me out with the cleanup. But I couldn't resist taking the opportunity to play a little prank on him first. HEY, IS THERE SOMETHING IN MY NOSE? I thought Rowley would laugh, but he was TERRIFIED. Even AFTER I showed him the worm was just a piece of candy, he still couldn't get over it.

That's when a lightbulb went on over my head. People LOVE to be scared, and if you're good at it, you can make a FORTUNE. It can't be that hard, either. I.M. Spooky is filthy rich, and that guy doesn't even EXIST. I heard about these college kids who made a horror movie, and they only spent a couple hundred bucks filming it. Then they sold the movie to a big studio, and now those guys are MILLIONAIRES. If those guys could do it, so could I. And I didn't need hundreds of dollars, either. All I needed was a couple of bags of gummy worms and Mom and Dad's old camcorder.

I could already see the movie poster in my mind. Night of the NIGHT CRAWLERS And when my movie wins Best Picture, I'll be sure to thank all the little people who helped me along the way.

The person who'll deserve the BIGGEST thanks is MOM. She's the one who's always saying I should use my imagination and do something creative, so when I'm a famous director I'll bet she'll be proud. Before all THAT could happen, though, we needed to get started making this movie. I told Rowley my idea to make a film where man-eating worms terrorize a town, but that seemed to make him nervous. He said maybe we could switch out the worms for something less SCARY, like butterflies. But I told him nobody was gonna pay good money to see a movie like THAT. I said we could have some funny parts so it wasn't JUST scary, and he seemed to warm up to the idea.