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March 28th, 2008

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Writing Exercise of the Day
The challenge: Write a passage that reveals important and engaging details about a character's personality without any physical description of the person.

My own attempt is below. Put your own in the comments if you'd like to share.

If a man’s home could truly be his castle, Parker Sims’s castle would have hungry alligators in the moat and sharpened spikes atop the walls. The spikes would be decorated with the heads of neighborhood dogs that barked when Parker wanted to sleep, and neighborhood children who ran across Parker’s manicured lawn. The towers would have arrow slits for archers; the ramparts would have pots for the boiling oil.

But this was a suburbia, so Parker had to make do with a chain-link fence, a Keep Off The Grass sign, and the best Brinks security system money could buy.

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