Living in the basement of a grocery store, Muriel Dickens is this crazy old lady who runs around the store shopping for the most organic cheeseburgers she can find. She goes home and deep fries them for three and a half hours. And then she eats them with...KETCHUP! After she's finished, she chucks the leftovers out the window into her pet gopher's den so the gopher can chomp them up with its green fangs. Her best friend is Argus Filch, the caretaker of her home.
TRINETTE CLARK
Trinette Clark is a clock maker that always does her work in a tree. She is tall and so skinny that she can fit in a modern day chimney, so whenever she delivers her clocks, she delivers them though the chimney. Whenever customers receive their items, they ask, "What did you do?!?! Come in through the chimney!?" She always replies (proudly), "Yes, Ma-am." or "Yes, Sir."
Jacob
Jacob, I like that you brought in another character to interact with Muriel. Thank you for reminding us of "your" Muriel, too, by typing last week's piece. I just read a book about a clock maker and was fascinated by what kind of person a clock maker is--outside of making clocks! I think it is very funny and very good writing that your description of her physical self brings you to describe how she acts. Tall and skinny ... delivers her clocks through the chimney. I especially like "modern-day chimney." It's that extra detail that really grounds it. Like, a "vegetarian who eats fish." I love reading ALOUD the last line, "yes ma'am or yes sir." Did you do any other writing this week? Have you tried looking around you and seeing something in the room to write about? If you want to continue with Trinette Clark, why don't you think about some very mundane characteristics she might have. Like, she tinkers (a clock-worker's term) with paperclips when she eats her morning shredded oats, creating interlocking shapes of...or she loves observing hummingbirds from her window seat. What else would a clock maker like to do? What kind of person is she? Please come ready to talk about what it was like to write 10 minutes a day--was it hard? Was it tedious? Did you find momentum finally, or not? Could you actually do it or not? Thanks, Jacob! Carolyn
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