I have a beginning scene---a woman looking into a mirror, examining her face, seeing similar wrinkles as her mothers, then I'm stuck....I'm hovering around the idea of a woman with anger issues----thoughts? suggestions?
2006-07-18 10:05:39 · 19 answers · asked by gg 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
These are all awesome...how am I going to pick just one??? Thanks for getting the brain flowing! Keep em coming...
2006-07-18 10:50:22 · update #1
Send her through the mirror to another time. Maybe she could jump into the body of her mother and live out pivotal scenes of her mothers life. When she comes back to herself then she will understand her mother better.
2006-07-18 10:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by Luvmt 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jane was right - the frown lines around her mouth had deepened considerably the past year making her look more like their mother than ever. But why shouldn't they? What did she have to be happy about anymore? The mill had downsized their workforce and she had lost her job. Yes, she got unemployment, but when that ran out, then what? Would she have to sell her home? Then her steady boyfriend of 2 years, John, said he needed some space before committing to an engagement but he could only do that at his grandmother's farm in Washington almost the width of the country away from her. And now today her car broke down and it didn't look like it was going to be a cheap repair job. So why shouldn't she have frown lines around her mouth and crows feet around her eyes from squinting at her accounts late at night trying to figure out a way to make ends meet when the unemployment ran out.
Why did John have to run off at a time like this when she needed his broad shoulders to lean on and his sculpted mouth to whisper in her ear that it would be alright - that they could make it together? When she wasn't crying in loneliness and frustration at his sudden departure she was slamming her fists on the desk next to the bills in anger that this should happen to her all in the space of a year.
2006-07-18 10:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disturbed by flashbacks, she looks closer. Each wrinkle she sees, sparks another memory. A frame of action: an intersection, cars colliding, voices heard, "is she still alive?" Betrayal. She sees a body, lying on it's side, a woman? Her view seems as if she's floating above. Why is she there? Flashback, another birthday with a goofy cone hat; kazoos, cakes and candles. "Where's the knife? Who's got the knife?"
Why was he here and why is he staring? The knife. The blade, the razor blade. The razor blade. Another wrinkle.
2006-07-18 10:13:54 · answer #3 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make it a story of a women that wakes up one moning and doesnt remember anything since she was around 10 or 21 and freaks out because she is old and has wrinkles. so she goes out and does every thing she cares about and then dies peacefully at the end with the words i have finished my own life story and it is time to go now.
2006-07-18 10:09:34 · answer #4 · answered by Josh H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok well shes looking into the mirror then she looks back at the bed where a much younger guy is laying there a sleep, she looks back into the mirror and begins to cry, she realizes, that the meds have worn off and that she needs to get more, but not before she thinks of how she got there....
2006-07-18 10:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by truthfinder1960 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe show how her mother earned that pattern of wrinkles, through unhappiness, or laughter, or tears, or sternness, or whatever. Then move on to how her mothers attitudes affected the woman, and come back to show her earning her own wrinkles?
2006-07-18 10:15:01 · answer #6 · answered by Beardog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would continue your story as you wrote it. Start by looking into the things that have made you angry, Try to write about your life as these are the subjects you know best. Use the people you know as reference or perhaps a montage of several of them. I am sure you have enough imagination to embellish on the characters who occupy your heart and your image of the world around you. Good luck (send me a copy )
2006-07-18 10:58:39 · answer #7 · answered by eudaemon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As she look in the mirror, seeing wrinkle memory of her husband. How she's wait for him to return from the war over sea. Knowing that his heart will keep them together. As tear fall down her eye, she stared at herself. Wondering will her husband every return.
2006-07-18 10:37:14 · answer #8 · answered by Tori 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gradually, she finds that her mother visited a "fertility clinic" in Italy, and she's actually a clone of her mother.
She reads up on telomeres and finds that she's prematurely aging.
She confronts her mother with this knowledge and asks why.
2006-07-18 10:14:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate adventure, finding ones identity. Either she forgot who she is through some funky government scheme or she goes on a life-quest, and discovers her true self, and her true love!
2006-07-19 05:12:56 · answer #10 · answered by Dragonfly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋