Back at it.

I took a break, but now I'm back at it.
We had a Craft Sale this past Saturday and the preparation was very time consuming.

Sunday I had an 6 hour writing workshop, and as one might imagine, it started off with a writing exercise. We had 4 minutes each to interview and be interviewed by everyone in the workshop. The exercise was to them write a character sketch, or a scene or a story about a character that was a composite of the people we interviewed. Very cool idea, difficult to do within such a contrived situation, but something that we (can) do with people we meet or know in our daily lives.

Here's mine: Again - the formatting didn't come through very well.

INT. KAYLEE’S BEDROOM - LATE NIGHT.

Cindy, a young girl of 5, with blond pigtails, and in a pink nightgown is huddled under the covers with big sister Kaylee.

Kaylee gently rocks Cindy and strokes her hair.

                    KAYLEE
          Shhh, it’ll be alright sweetie, 
          you’re safe now.

Cindy, whimpering, snuggles in for more comfort.

                    CINDY                              
          But I don’t want to move, Kay.

                    KAYLEE                              
          It’ll be alright, it’ll be an adventure. 
          Think of all the new friends we’ll make.

                    CINDY                              
          I don’t want new friends, I want my old 
          friends, and I want Daddy.

Cindy’s crying turns her words to gibberish. 

Kaylee continues to gently rock her sister and stroke her hair.

EXT. FRONT LAWN - EARLY MORNING

The beautiful PEI coastline in the backpack, fishing boats at dock, fishermen milling about.
Cindy, with her blanket and colourful blanket, stands sobbing beside a Toyota, packed with suitcases.

Kaylee, hauling another suitcase, exists the delightfully quaint house. The airport check-in label on the suitcase reads 'Whitehorse'.

Kaylee and Cindy’s Mom follows, and locked the door behind her.

A ‘For Sale’ sign is neatly planted on the front lawn.

Obviously it's only a part of something that could be more, but again, the idea was to see how to make a composite character and to get us writing.

Now that the pressure is off a little, I hope to get back to writing every day. If I do, I intend to post. :)

Hope you enjoyed.
Cheers and have a great day.