To join group: Join RedBubble or Login

Graphic Scratch

This is a group for descriptive writing.

Featured Work

Writing

Abacus…He was skilled in the art of patience, waiting would dig its mulish heels into most but this was not his way.

Graphic Scratch challenge – Wrong Number (Word Count = 500 words) A trisomy is a genetic abnormality in which there are three copies, instead of the normal two, of a particular chromosome – A Wrong Number
Writing

All In The Numbers…She loved everything mystical / they were attracted / His ceaseless tapping / She believed in preordained love / a woman wearing rhododendron…

Written for Graphic Scratch / Theme “wrong Number” Word count = 500

Recent Work

Writing

In the Spring, A Young Man…He looked at my neighbour, who was standing in his overalls at the kitchen sink, and croaked, “Hey, man – do you got any aspirin? I don’t…

This story is about a laughable confrontation between the opposite extremes of new age culture.
Writing

Secret Secretions…I was in need of white blood cells years back to form white love clots around my heart when I had ventured too near to…....her.

You have to be ready for change…...... or you may not know it when it calls. I know stories that don’t have the ‘happy ending’ will not be everyone’s cup of tea….but I kinda like to offer a different cup.. :)) / And this could have a happy ending…..Maybe…
Writing

i prefer pearls too…As I slip the soft dress over my head and feel the silky fabric shimmer down my form, I remember when this seemingly insignificant proces…
Writing

Futurity Diaries - Not for Sale…You will sit one day with well worn silvery slippers on your well traversed feet sewing the word tapestry of your destined diary.

I believe we can write what our life is and what we want for our future…..........our own personal map to follow and ‘tweak’ as the need arises. Or is our diary already written???
Writing

out on a limb…acrid sweat is running down my forehead / and mixing with my useless tears / my hair is whipping about my face / like Medusa’s wildly writhi…

sometimes we have to make / our own mistakes / sometimes we cannot hear / the voices of those we hold / most dear…....
Writing

Tossing and Turning.…I stare at the ceiling and try and make sense of the swirls of colour my retinas throw against the blackness, I don’t bother closing my e…
Writing

Elvis, Change Your Name…Sometime in the middle of the night, he began / to wander in the big country, where the deep / space sky knows all about you but…

This prose-poem takes the “dead rock-star” legends to a surreal extreme that leads them to a ghost town.
Writing

billy ocean.....…I cross a bridge and cannot help but think of the depth we had, the views we shared or the toll we paid. / I merge and reminisce, of the c…

a ‘positve’ and reflective ramble :)
Writing

Stone Mother…Her face is stone, all her emotions are dry; a desert can shed no tears. / They have killed her children because they could. Can y…

I just wanted to say something, anything….I hoped by becoming more aware that this is a beginning somehow…..pray for her.
Writing

Soap Bubble In The Sea…It rained for most of the day. Not the lazy rain of summer but the torrent of early spring. It was a storm designed to drive living thing…

It rained all weekend…
Writing

memoirs of a rainforest…Like the trunk of an ancient tree, rooted in her mighty forest, slice me through and count the many lives I have seen. / They show direct …
Writing

Fried fish in fur …around the bend / of undecided / sitting proud as punch / on a scrap of Egyptian cotton Lily kissed the night air / a music gnome busi…

Making sense is one thing / The imagination is another

This is a group for descriptive writing. All writing must be able to paint a literal picture, procure a striking image, or weave a physical visual in the mind. People should be able to see what it is the writing is about.

GRAPHIC SCRATCH REVIVAL PROJECT
Hello you lovely ink-stained scribes! Want to throw yourself into regular word feasts of synonyms and adjectives? Come take the plunge and get involved in reviving Graphic Scratch – check out our forums and get scratching!

See the group rules and join this group here