Weekly Writing Challenge
I've given Weekly Music the boot, since its popularity seemed to decrease each week. However, I wanted to keep the double features on the weekend, so I've decided to make the writing challenge a weekly event.
Of course, giving you sentences to finish, or pictures from which you're to write a short piece on might get repetitive. I'm going to do these things, but I'll try to mix it up every now and then.
For today, try out a character sketch. Let me know the following character's name, occupation, something distinctive about their personality and, if they were to be the star of your short story, what obstacle would they face?
And, for anyone who enters, there's the chance for ever-prestigious cool points.
Of course, giving you sentences to finish, or pictures from which you're to write a short piece on might get repetitive. I'm going to do these things, but I'll try to mix it up every now and then.
For today, try out a character sketch. Let me know the following character's name, occupation, something distinctive about their personality and, if they were to be the star of your short story, what obstacle would they face?
And, for anyone who enters, there's the chance for ever-prestigious cool points.
4 Comments:
I'd say Jack Quinn, a married man in his mid-thirties who works as a director in a busy movie studio.
The distinctive aspect of his personality lies in the way he communicates visually, using a lot of hand movements to convey the meaning of his words.
In a short story, the obstacle would be the result of misplacing his glasses. That would mean he can hold a script and read it, but cannot look up and see what distant members of the film crew are doing.
John Smith. You have to question parents who would bestow a name that would guarantee a life of invisible existence. Yet, John thought, he looked like a John Smith. His chin indescript except for the goatee he had grown to avoid disappearing altogether. His collogues in the State Department were constantly forgetting that he worked there, which was fine with John because he could take longer walks at lunch. Still, being invisible was his biggest problem – ignored in class, at work, at parties and even during sex with his wife:
“My name’s not George Damn-it!”
“I am sorry honey, is something wrong?”
“No nothing, never mind.”
While cleaning his feet, toe-jelly and fuzz seemingly the only two substances that recognized his existence on the daily occurrence, John Smith realized that maybe he could use his non-existence to his benefit.
“Just maybe,” he thought out loud in front of the mirror, “maybe by being invisible I could have all the things that visible people can’t have.”
With that thought finished, he put on a fresh pair of socks, left a note to his wife, whom would never miss him or indeed realize that he was gone, and packed a suit case. Invisible people can go anywhere, do anything, the trick was figuring out what it was you wanted to do.
Kevin James
Playwright
Narcissist
Obstacle: seeing outside his own perspective to complete a play.
His name: Sir Alfred, despite the fact that his first name is not really Alfred and that he has never "officially" been knighted.
A mime by day and ninja by night, Sir Alfred’s occupations combine a deadly combination of entertainment and crime fighting all while never leaving the convenience of his bedroom (in his mother’s house).
In a short story, our beloved hero, Sir Alfred, would be confronted with solving the dreaded mystery of “Why did the Chicken cross the road?”
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