Using our handout, "Adjectives to Describe a Character," choose one adjective to illustrate a person's character in a short piece of writing. Do not use that adjective in your writing or comment. In fact, you may not use ANY adjectives; instead, use dialogue, description of setting, description of actions.
Length: 50 to 75 words
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Short version
I walked past this woman: black coat with a rose pinned on her right side of her long, curly brunette hair.
I was stunned by her style until I questioned in my head " Why is a person, like her, walking in high heels uphill with sunglasses? It's afternoon. " Until then, I turned my head to my right and saw her reflection.
- 61 words -
Perspiration trickled down her face. With her eyes open wide she tried to find a way to escape. She was madly running through bushes that prickled her face. She had a feeling that somebody followed her. Suddenly a small cottage appeared in front of her. She will probably find someone to help her.
Words 55
I live with her everyday.She looks kind ,but sometimes she likes to controll people who she loves.Thats because she cares about them.She trys to be helpful to her children ,but her children think she is strict person because she often deos not allowed them to do whatever they want to.She thinks her kids are too young to understand her duties.
64 words.
“I can't!” a man's voice echoed through the valley. “There's no way I'm doing it.”
The woman patting the man said soothingly, “Just don't look down.”
A head peered over the ledge and withdrew quickly. “I'll fall,” he whimpered.
~43 words
He entered the store, and started looking around with his wide eyes. I went to him and asked if he needs any help,” I need a dressy shirt,” he replied. He tried a black medium dress shirt, then blue, green, white, dark red and one after another. After an hour of opening shirts and handing them to him for trying, he couldn’t pick one, and he left the store to come back with his wife.(75 words)
There was no way out – not anymore. He’d been contemplating this moment for a while and now here he was, sitting in a bathtub with a razor blade. It was entirely cliché (that he knew, but the “where” mattered not). And so, it was best he get on with it, no reason to idle in the world for another goddamn moment longer. He closed his eyes and said the last thing he ever would.
“Strawberry fields, here I come.”
- 79 words -
Tony has come into man bathroom in a public swimming pool for about twenty minutes. His grandma asked a staff to call him out. The staff said nobody answered inside. Finally, Tony came out.
“Didn’t you hear someone call your name?” His grandma asked.
“I did,” he said.
“But, why didn’t you answer him?”
“You always tell me not to talk with a stranger.” he replied confidently.
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I see him everyday, walking around the neighborhood. When I said hi to him, he never replies but he stairs at me as he wants to say something. He walks everyday wondering around with his black dog which seemed to be he never has ever talked to anyone. After a year he disappeared and I never saw him again in our aria.
62 words
A female came across the counter when the graveyard shift worker was going though the work list before the morning rush.
"Bring a tossed bagel with herbal garlic chess to me.” she commanded then stepped into the office.
The guy muttered, “Big deal, just a supervisor trainee, bitch!”
Her order yelled from the room again,"Coffee and your checking list, too”
“Coming!” he shouted reluctantly and moved slowly with his both hands full. --73 words
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