My Music Journal 2025: May 21, 2025

 

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Time: 4:28
Song: May It Last
Artist: The Avett Brothers
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Liked Songs playlist on Spotify.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/1knajY3pmDF9hDtkXQpnAk?si=831c0061273e4bdb

 Our second writing exercise at Write On last night was a character development sheet. Below is how I answered the questions. It’s a nice tool to use if you are writing a short story or novel and need to take time to consider the qualities of major and minor characters. I continued the desert theme for this one.\

1. Write a simple sentence that introduces a character and includes an action.

 My sentence: Amanda drove to the desert.

2. Write six physical traits about this character.

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• Tall
• Short-dark hair
• Green eyes
• Pale-skinned
• Slender (I admit I couldn’t think of a sixth quickly and threw this on at the last moment).

3. Write one thing this character cares about.

 Amanda cares about her brother, Rusty.

4. This character has this flaw:

 Amanda jumps into action without considering consequences.

 5. Write three sentences about this character that incorporates the above traits, including action of the first sentence:

Around Amanda the desert was burnt orange with a sporadic blanket of withering green brush. The car was dead, her having pushed it too hard to get back to the Midwest to save her brother, Rusty. Now, she was stranded with no water, no sun-tan lotion for her nearly translucent skin, and no hat to cover her thin-black hair.