February 11, 2013

*Make a list of four qualities/characteristics that describe a character real or imagined. Place that character in a scene and write the scene so that the qualities are conveyed through significant detail. Use no generalizations and no judgments. No word on your list should appear in the scene. Use detail and description to SHOW the qualities through the scene and the actions of the character.

• Handsome

• Greedy

• Consumer

• Proud

Bronson flowed through the gallows of clothing, brushing his sides and shoulders against tailored suits and silk vests.  Clouds of overpriced cloaked devils opened up like fleshy gates and allowed the neo-celeb to make his rounds.  Rummaging through the finest of clothing, he was an aimless animal among prey.  That's all he was, really.  Longing for the new; branching out from the norm; trying desperately to impress the onlookers.  Bronson craved the attention, the praises.  He made it known that he refused to fall victim to trends' attractive grasps, though he was the one true fiend.

Currency; income--the absurd idea of even having an overhead wasn't a mere thought to the forty-five year-old walking billboard of glasses and cologne.  He wasn't about to leave his fellow money-grubbers without at least making a purchase--he made an appearance, now for the main attraction.  Bronson feverishly picked out a few refined shirts he already had duplicates of and made his way to the checkout.  Sifting through his many plastic cards, that were somehow a relic of himself, he soon paid for the clothing, and ushered himself out the door from whence he came.

Nose high, fists wrapped in bags stern, posture elegant, Bronson flowed through the gallows of the grieving and groveling; smirking from the side of his mouth; not even accidentally brushing the lesser with the bags.

February 7, 2013

"Fluorescence" wasn't my favorite book, but I enjoyed parts of it nonetheless.

Along with finishing the book, I had to make a poetry portfolio including poems I've written in class.  I thoroughly enjoyed writing and arranging my poems on the pages in an ergodic manner.  Writing, let alone creative writing, has always been a major interest of mine, and I enjoy spending copious amounts of time studying the world in both macro and micro views, and, in the most literal sense, reporting what I find.

My notebook is not with me at the moment, so I'll post one of my poems once I get it back.