Writing Exercise: Tattoo and Body Piercing
Hi everyone,
So for today's post, as you can see, the subject was Tattoos and Body piercings. There are many things that I could say about this subject from the body itself to the places you get them done. But for the 5 minutes exercise I thought to write a monologue. I chose that route because I felt that it would be the quickest way to get things across. So, here we go:
'I love tattoo and body piercings!
Do I have any?
Of course!
I love what tattoos can express about yourself. It can tell a great story. You can tell what a person is like by the tattoos on his/her skin.
Some people spend little and get average tatt's while others will spend more and get beautiful artworks. I lean more towards the beauty + cost: I'll gladly spend a bit more if it means that I'll be happy about my tattoo.
Now, body piercing, you say?
I'll tell you something: I find some beautiful, others scare me though.
I think that some places are just not to be pierced, not to be touched like that. *shudder*
I love ear piercings, nose piercings and a few others. It gets expensive though. If you think of some jewelry, you can spend lots on it.'
(142 words)
If I look closely at what I wrote, I think that I would expend on some of the ideas (after I love what tattoos can express about yourself. It can tell a great story. You can tell what a person is like by the tattoos on his/her skin. I think that I would talk a bit more about tattoos in Russia for example.) There are some parts that I probably would delete and rewrite in a better way, with better words(mostly at the end).
It is difficult to arrange your thoughts before the exercise because there is no time, so you don't have time to organize, instead you just have to start writing.
For my own writing, there are several characters that have tattoos, so I thought about this topic quite a bit; for body piercings, I didn't really think about it until this exercise. I mean, usually, in fantasy worlds that I have read, the only piercings that writers bothered to write about were nipple piercings (and the characters who had it were forced to do so.); in romance, writers may include a tattoo or body piercing as an element of kink or a bad boy/girl persona. I may have been reading the wrong books but that's what I have seen across books I read.
So for today's post, as you can see, the subject was Tattoos and Body piercings. There are many things that I could say about this subject from the body itself to the places you get them done. But for the 5 minutes exercise I thought to write a monologue. I chose that route because I felt that it would be the quickest way to get things across. So, here we go:
'I love tattoo and body piercings!
Do I have any?
Of course!
I love what tattoos can express about yourself. It can tell a great story. You can tell what a person is like by the tattoos on his/her skin.
Some people spend little and get average tatt's while others will spend more and get beautiful artworks. I lean more towards the beauty + cost: I'll gladly spend a bit more if it means that I'll be happy about my tattoo.
Now, body piercing, you say?
I'll tell you something: I find some beautiful, others scare me though.
I think that some places are just not to be pierced, not to be touched like that. *shudder*
I love ear piercings, nose piercings and a few others. It gets expensive though. If you think of some jewelry, you can spend lots on it.'
(142 words)
If I look closely at what I wrote, I think that I would expend on some of the ideas (after I love what tattoos can express about yourself. It can tell a great story. You can tell what a person is like by the tattoos on his/her skin. I think that I would talk a bit more about tattoos in Russia for example.) There are some parts that I probably would delete and rewrite in a better way, with better words(mostly at the end).
It is difficult to arrange your thoughts before the exercise because there is no time, so you don't have time to organize, instead you just have to start writing.
For my own writing, there are several characters that have tattoos, so I thought about this topic quite a bit; for body piercings, I didn't really think about it until this exercise. I mean, usually, in fantasy worlds that I have read, the only piercings that writers bothered to write about were nipple piercings (and the characters who had it were forced to do so.); in romance, writers may include a tattoo or body piercing as an element of kink or a bad boy/girl persona. I may have been reading the wrong books but that's what I have seen across books I read.
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