Katguy
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- Posted: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:24:35 +0000
Good start! As others say, you have a keen mind for description and character.
Keep this for now, but find ways to go into her life history later on, when it's more relevant. Then whack this whole paragraph out. smile
I'm not sure how she feels about her life at this point. Yeah, she was crying earlier, and now she obviously wants to kill herself, but...is she still crying? Are her feelings numb? Hands shaking? Eyes closed? You could make this whole act a thousand times more horrible if you let us empathize with Tawny some more. 3nodding
Chesea
As you see, her mother and her father had seperated when she was but a tinder six year old. At age eight, they divorced. That very night of the divorce, her father went out with his buddies for drinks. He went home horribly drunk and had decided, blindly, to commit suicide. He drove off a bridge on a mildy chilly night. The truck had hit the edge of some jagged rocks, killing him instently, then the truck had, slowly slid into the creek below, and sunk. How she missed him dearly.
Keep this for now, but find ways to go into her life history later on, when it's more relevant. Then whack this whole paragraph out. smile
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Once home, after the funneral, she ran inside and slammed the door of the bathroom. Quickly locking the door, she snabbed a clean cut razor knife, and slide onto the floor....
I'm not sure how she feels about her life at this point. Yeah, she was crying earlier, and now she obviously wants to kill herself, but...is she still crying? Are her feelings numb? Hands shaking? Eyes closed? You could make this whole act a thousand times more horrible if you let us empathize with Tawny some more. 3nodding