I need a distraction...

[LindsayRae]

So, I'm doing some homework, which seems very odd for my case management class and seems a lot more suited for my old creative writing class I had, and it's boring as hell.

I need a distraction. lol

I want to read some new, awesome story ideas! Get crackin' people! lol We've had some newer people posting lately...come say hi and stuff!

 

[emap]

Case management class, so your learning how to be a parole officer? Sorry I'm not up for doing story ideas, I just started a new story and it's big so I aint got no room for thinking stuff.

 

[LindsayRae]

Social worker, actually. And in my case management class they want us to "learn" how to use descriptive language so I have to write a two to three page paper on a room in my house. That's very vague and surprisingly hard to do. lol

 

[emap]

Ah well not really, cool beans on your future employment choice by the way, but describing a room isn't all that hard, stretching it out to 2-3 pages though is tough unless there is alot of stuff.

Now if there is not, you have a sparse room, with like say, a chair, sofa, TV, side table with a lamp, one window and one door then you gotta go all poetic and stuff. I'll give an example on going all poetic on the above room, there is a point to this stuff I'm sure.

It is a deep room, stretching almost twenty feet from the simple square decorated front door to the entrance to the kitchen, a hallway extending one wall towards the bedrooms and bathroom. A wide highly arched window stretches along the wall by the door letting in a nice soft spray of sunlight. A small brown somewhat ugly sofa sits under the sunlight, though it is surprisingly confortable, almost inviting you to go and sit atop it sink in and let all your troubles of the day seep away. Besides the sofa is a small side table, a lamp perched atop it seeming it lean towards you eager to provide light, but not being overly eager with the sunlight streaming in lighting up the clear structure of the lamp it's offwhite cap tucked down a little as if the lamp is embarrassed at itself for wanting to provide light.

Standing high and mighty against the wall facing the sofa is a TV, it's feet dug deep into the soft carpet, the black face of the TV lit up with the sunlight showing the sofa, the side table with the eager embarrassed lamp and off to the side a lonely chair. This chair looks depressed, sitting low, one side seems to sit lower than the other, looking for all the world like a depressed teen sprawled over a bed or the floor. The faded green of the chair spotty with pulled and created tuffs of cloth.

Obviously not long enough for your purposes but you see I hope what I mean, waxing poetic is simply adding in details you deduce by looking at stuff or people or simply coming up with to add filler.

Beleive it or not people are the hard ones, because you can put words in their motuh when they didn't say anything. Looking at a guy looking off into space on a park bench can be several things. He is thinking about what he wants to do and what he is doing instead, he could be pining for his ex girlfriend who dumped him yesterday, he could be pining for that hot little number across the hall in his apartment building. Heck it is a guy he could just be pining for a cold beer, or those pretzels at his favorite bar.

 

[LindsayRae]

Cool beans on your future employment choice by the way, but describing a room isn't all that hard, stretching it out to 2-3 pages though is tough unless there is alot of stuff.

Thanks.

Exactly. Ya never realized how boring any room in your home is, even if you are a pack-rat and have a lot of shit, until you have to describe it for several pages.

*sigh*

 

[emap]

You didn't read everything I guess, I pointed it out, it's not a list you were asked to do. You are to describe the room, give it life, give it background and you will find yourself with more than 3 pages if it's a fairly well adorned room. Probably best to not do a bathroom or bedroom since I'm sure lots of sex happened in the second and the first generally is boring and hard to animate.

Kitchen usually is the best since you can talk about the food you have made with this item or that, the booboos that have been healed over the sink so on so forth. They don't want you to just show the room, they want you to breath life into the room, doesn't have to be true but they want you to let them close their eyes and see the room, the history of the room, feel the life of it.

Granted kinda corny and all but it seems to have a place, besides I'm sure you will need to know how to this, especially for social worker, that means kids in foster care adoptions so on. You have to get those kids happy going someplace even though you both probably know it will suck, not to mention prevent a parent or parents from doing something really stupid out of fear.

 

[LindsayRae]

I'm sorry my reply didn't have more insight to it. In our lecture notes, it said that "descriptive writing", by definition, was describing one's behavior. (When writing a case file on someone. You write about their behavior and not, necessarily, just what you see.)

That said, this assignment doesn't even fit based on the definition given. I'm not sure if we're supposed to write in the sense you mentioned, breathing new life into the objects, etc. After all, this isn't a creative writing class.

So, I pretty much wrote the former and not the latter. I did the boring ole laundry list of what's in the room. However, I was descriptive in what the things were, etc.

I just wanted the damn thing over and done with. lol It's for an online class and is due no later than 11:55 tonight.

 

[JMaxwell69]

Mess with them

Given that the professor or instructor is unlikely to come to your home to check the veracity of your description, I think you should describe a dungeon. It would have cool dank stone walls with rusty chains and manicles hanging from them. Perhaps, there also might be a battered wooden rack with a large ship's wheel style crank and rough hemp rope restraints.

 

[Arotico]

Here's an idea that should also help with your homework: describe the most awsome sexual experience you've had in that room. Or the one you'd most like to have. Don't be afraid to be descriptive...

 

[emap]

Oh now you tell me this, sheesh.

Makes life easier actually, you don't have to talk about the stuff that you do with it or anything, you just describe what it looks like and what happens when you do this or that. Trust me you are putting to much thought into it.

Like this computer I'm using, when I press the on button it wheezes a little, the front lights up in red along two bars on the outside and the buttons light up. After a second or two it gets a little quieter and one light blinks off and on depending on what you are doing.

See you gotta look at what they ask you to do, they give you a big old hint, or at least you did when you said not just what you see but what you see them doing. Describing how your lamp looks, what it does when you turn it on, each item you describe can be it's own paragraph. I see what they are doing, they are trying to get you to in a sense open your freakin eyes and see what is there and not just that there is a person.

 

[sirhugs]

don't parole officers get to use handcuffs????
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yeah, you're in social worker... much less fun. though i know some sexy social workers.

Maybe an old age home fantasy? Sexy SW attends to her clients needs...all of them???

 

[hotsnatch6]

Given that the professor or instructor is unlikely to come to your home to check the veracity of your description, I think you should describe a dungeon. It would have cool dank stone walls with rusty chains and manicles hanging from them. Perhaps, there also might be a battered wooden rack with a large ship's wheel style crank and rough hemp rope restraints.

How do you know that she doesn't really have a room such as that?

 

[JMaxwell69]

How do you know that she doesn't really have a room such as that?

Perhaps a poor assumption on my part. Mea Culpa

 

[hotsnatch6]

Perhaps a poor assumption on my part. Mea Culpa

No need for a Mea Culpa, although a Mai Tai would be nice.

I just didn't want to arbitrarily limit Lindsey's kinkiness. She may look like a mild mannered housewife from the MidWest with a nice rack and a charming wit, but who knows what she's really like behind closed doors?

 

[JMaxwell69]

I've just heard that it's terribly hard to find a good contractor that can retrofit a quality dungeon into one's house. That means you need to buy a house with one built when the original foundations were put in, and, if you don't live in a neighborhood with Medieval castles, that can be a challenge.

I don't know how to transmit a Mai Tai through cyberspace, or I'd gladly comply.