Long time no see! Welcome back to my channel. I took a nice long break from this blog because I wasn’t writing much. I also kind of switched off my brain while I had winter break from school. Now I am back at it, taking new classes this spring semester. I have continued with creative writing so I am now ready to start sharing my assignments again!

This first one is an exercise in developing details with movement and the senses. I will share the initial, very simple sentences that I came up with and then after that I will share the developed paragraph that I ended up with. I am skipping the stages in between. Just know that this took six stages to develop.

First stage of very simple sentences: Her hair was curly and long. She brushed her hair and her arms were getting tired. She got up to look in the mirror. She sat down in front of the mirror and continued to brush.

Final developed paragraph: Her body twitched with awareness, yawning with a stretch like a cat in the sun. She rolled from her back onto her side as she woke from her nap. Her neck felt hot and stifled under the mass of brown curls, that were striped with gold, cascading down her back. She shot up, angrily grabbed her hairbrush, and started tackling the monster roasting her head. It took her a while to run the large brush through her whole head of hair, white knuckles clenched around the pink glitter handle. The rhythmic swish and crunch sounds of the kinky curls giving way to the tool was the only sound in her room. Her spaghetti arms were burning by the time she finished. She was slouched on her bed and couldn’t see the results so she sprang up and stomped over to the vanity mirror that was practically covered completely with photos of her and her friends. She plopped down on the blue velvet stool to witness the giant poof floating around her head and shoulders. Before it tangled itself into a tumble weed, rolled off her head and onto the desert highway, she continued to try and tame it with the brush, braids, and some hair ties.

That’s it! Thanks for reading!

Okayest Jen back at it, trying to capture that good parking structure lighting.