STORY STARTER

Submitted by Chloe Flora

Your character is working remotely in a cosy bakery, tucked in the corner with a warm drink and their laptop. Describe the feeling they have.

Try to utilise as many senses as you can to fully immerse the reader in your character's experience.

Creeping

Poetry

It’s quiet at this time of day

Silence greets me

And it brings warmth along with it

It smells of pastry and black coffee

It’s stirring of memories

But I have to finish writing

I have to finish this article

I need my job or else I can’t afford to have this coffee

Black.

Reminds me of the worry creeping in.

Steeping in,

like the tea in that pot.

Comments 9

Bro

3 months ago

💙

Lizzie Rose.

3 months ago

Does it make sense to almost smell something based on what you read? I think so, because I swear I smelled coffee and pastries and I felt, though not mentioned, the small crowd of people in the bakery.

Well done, using coffee and its color to describe someone’s inner emotion. From the outside, I can imagine, the person would seem very clean and orderly. But the mention of how the deep shade of the coffee was like worry, speaker something someone else probably wouldn’t be able to see.

Take pride in this, please! I think you’ve earned yourself a bragging right 😂😘

Caralia🤍

3 months ago

wow this was a cool way to look at it!

Title nightmare

3 months ago

It paints a clear picture with greater detail than what is there, and I’m pleasantly surprised you didn’t go for the perspective of the baker or something similar.

paperpixie3

Hi I’m Lily. I wish to feel rather than be numb. Life is short, why would you not wish to feel the utmost possible amount of emotion. Some stuff I write turns out good, the others, well ignore them. Part of the process, right?🌷