Creative+writing

1. Positive- You could never die, through anything. You can feel young for eternity Meet a lot of new people Have the youth feeling Get a lot of knowledge

Negatives- Seeing your friends, family and children die Living through the plagues and wars Watching bad changes happen to the Earth Boredom Depression

3. present time, winter in newyork city.

4. She thinks she is old.

5.She rethinks that she is old.

6.???

8.She wants to be young again and will do anything for it.

> She'll do whatever to be young > She's very naive > She is depressed > Her love for people and the world > Someone of great confidence > beatles > God > The notebook > > No > reading > > Her grandmother who recently passed > To be healthy > Nothing > None > Drinking from the fountain > becoming old > when her grandmother died or when she realized there was no tu > becoming young > to go back to the way things use to be. > reading > none > having the same fate as her grandmother > her self > died when she was young > Alcoholic, not around that much > herself > No affects, oldest. > She has an older brother whom she doesnt have much contact with anymore > Quite clean and organized, empty, full of books and painted violet > April 12th, aries: self concious > her favorite book, food, clothes, water, her ferrett Engrid and probably her cat Lilly > Shes more upset and sad > Her pets and reading > None > shes naive, doesnt realize that she's a great person and shouldn't care so much of the way she looks and she makes bad decissions sometimes. > None > Her animals, and she stays up just thinking sometimes > Beautiful, unique > Not judge herself so much > No one > probably spend all her money on books and her animals > Beautiful person, amazing personality when not thinking about how she looks > Her eyes > Her insecurity > She hates her surroundings.
 * 1) What do you know about this character now that s/he doesn’t yet know?
 * 1) What is this character’s greatest flaw?
 * 1) What do you know about this character that s/he would never admit?
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 * 1) If this character could choose a different identity, who would s/he be?
 * 1) What music does this character sing to when no one else is around?
 * 1) In what or whom does this character have the greatest faith?
 * 1) What is this character’s favorite movie?
 * 1) Does this character have a favorite article of clothing? Favorite shoes?
 * 1) Does this character have a vice? Name it.
 * 1) Name this character’s favorite person (living or dead).
 * 1) What is this character’s secret wish?
 * 1) What is this character’s proudest achievement?
 * 1) Describe this character’s most embarrassing moment.
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">What does this character resolve to do differently every morning?
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">If this character knew s/he had exactly one month to live, what would s/he do?
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 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 3em;">Write one additional thing about your character.

The Fountain of Youth.

There I was, waking up to the annoying sound of my alarm clock yet again. It was about 6:00am and the start of a new day. Like evey other morning I got up feeling tired and old, got dressed, showered and got ready for work but today I had a weird feeling; I had the feeling there was a big event ahead of me but what it was, I had no idea... I carried on with my morning like I always do, got in my car and was off to work. I started my work day like any other, I sat down in my small, stuffy office space and worked till my hands cramped up from typing so much. I got up to use the washroom which I would usually rather not do.. I mostly try and avoid looking at my self all together... My day then continued, I went back to writing. Since my grandmother passed, there aren't very many things that make me happy but I have to say that if there's anything that lights me up, it's writing or reading. My days are usually quite boring and you probably don't want to hear about it and I usually don't write about my day because if I were to write about each and every one of my days, it would be like listenning to the same song on repeat but I definitely felt the need to write about this day in particular. Hours passed and I was still on the same chair in the same office listenning to the same country music that had been playing for the past week and a half now when my boss came in. He asked me if I'd write him an article about this old man that worked in the market downtown. I thought why not, I certainly have nothing better to do so I accepted the offer and left to see this man. I had never met this man but I had heard lots about him, mostly things like "he's crazy", comments like that, there had been lots of commotion about him. I'm never usually assigned to things like this but I guess change can be good... So I thought. I knocked on the old man's shop door a few to times to get no answer. About five minutes passed and there was still no answer so I stepped down the slippery steps and took a few pases towards my car then I heard a creek of a door. "Hello" I said, " would you happen to be the man who owns this shop?" "Yes, this is my home" the old man replied in a deep, rather scary voice. "May I come in?" I asked, "I was hoping that I could do a report on what you do here sir." The man opened his door and welcomed me in. I took a look around his place to see nothing out of the ordinary; I saw nothing that caught my eye or interested me in anyway.. I asked the man questions about his work and got no answers that were suprising or striked me as odd or "crazy" as some people would call him. I continued to look for intriguing answers but none came but the man sure seemed to have enjoyed the company, seeing not too many people visit him. To be honest I rather enjoyed speaking with the man because, like him, I didn't really have anyone I could talk to either. I stopped taking notes and started asking questions not so much about his work but about him. Our visit started to change from an interview to more of, I would say just a talk. I talked about me and my life, which I really don't share with many people; I don't really share my life with anyone really but I found myself to have a lot in common with this man. What was suppose to be a half hour to an hour interview turned out to be a few hours of pure getting to know one another. I told the man about my grandmother and about my parents. I also told him about my fear of age and my insecurity. I told him my life. I looked at the clock and realized I had lost track of time, so I packed my things and told the man I enjoyed talking to him but it was time for me to leave. Before I could walk out the door, the man grabbed my arm. "Wait" the man said "I'd like to show you something miss" The man took me through a long hallway to what seemed to be a sliding door. The man opened the door and led me outside to a forrest of somesort. I heard the sound of running water, I turned to my right to see a spring. Fresh running water, the mist rushing past my face. The water almost looked like it was glowing, I had never seen anything like it. "Can you drink it?" I asked "You most definitely can miss" The man replied "but before you do, you must ask yourself if you want this" The man explained to me that the water had powers and that anyone who drinks from it will appear young again. Of course I was interested but could it really do that? Of course not, that's impossible. I had now realized what people meant when they said he was crazy. Not even thinking of the possibility he was truthful, I made my way ahead of the man and drank from the spring. Feeling no different, I left. I went back to work and sat down in that same chair at my desk in my office in which I sit at everyday. I got up once again to use the washroom.. Feeling suprisingly better I looked up at myself in the mirrior. This couldn't be.. I looked that of a 17 year old. "This is impossible!" I thought to myself. I couldn't go back to work like this, and what would I have said? That the old man gave me magic water? I had no idea what to do.. So I left work and went home. So here I am, it's about 10:00pm and I am still a 42 year old woman stuck in the body of a 17 year old girl. What should I do? All I can do now is hope that this isn't permanant...