Ophelia Williams stepped out onto the balcony that jutted out from her small but efficient apartment. Looking up and down the street from the raised first floor of the building she had the vantage point she liked. Sophie, a friend who lived two stories up from her thought her longtime buddy had rocks in her …
Category: writing
Character Sketch: Tim Collins
Tim Collins was twenty-eight, but looked like a middle-aged man. No one would ever say as much to his face. He worked in construction as an electrician and referred to himself as being as old as he felt, trying to get rid of the stigma. He hung out at the neighborhood bar on Friday and …
Character Sketch: Joanna Rice
Joanna Rice was one of those teenagers who had everything going for her. Her figure, face, and hair are the envy of almost every other girl in her school, even the ones who were one and two years older. Her intelligence was way above average, making most of her classes so easy she rarely had …
Scene Sketch: Dolan’s Pub
I’ve titled a few of my posts as Character Sketches, but I haven’t classified any as Scene Sketches. This doesn’t mean there aren’t any in this conglomeration I call my blog though. It just means I need to better tag my posts. If you go to the category, Writing Exercises, you can find more while …
Character Sketch: Amelia Geisler
The movement of getting up or down is laborious these days. She plants her thin haggard hands firming on the arms of her rocker and heaves herself up. She winces in pain for a moment, but with determination ambles towards the scratching sound at her backdoor. She grabs the knob and pulls revealing a pug …
A Scripted Maze 