Godfrey

In Today's Issue

Show not Tell
Godfrey
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Random Joke of the Day
Funny Fobia
The Thoughts of Chairman Anyhow
Finish With a Song

Show Not Tell

For those of you who read my last book, one of the most popular characters was Godfrey. A lot of readers asked how I came up with him. Well the first thing I had to do was create a back story for him. Show him rather than tell. This is vital if you want to create a "believable" person.

Here is how I built him,

Godfrey

The alarm carves into Godfrey's sleep like a bacon slicer.

Yawns and reaches finds the cup.

Hot tea scalds him into consciousness.

Blinks away a dream and lets the world focus around him.

Airfix planes on invisible nylon covered in the clouds of dust gently sway.

Posters of long relegated football teams yellowed, curl away from the damp.

A bedspread made with love shows swirls and colours, Joseph's technicolour anecdote.

Mum’s warbling climbs up on a plume of steam.

The supplier and the dealer,

The bedspread mountains over him, a peak, although no view for his toes.

Stretch and throw back the cocoon, dust motes dance in the sun, confetti confirming morning.

Looks at last night’s reading and sighs, the latest starvation fad, reinforcement of a 1st world problem.

Clothes folded and fresh smile up from the altar of the chair.

Always there, with the tea.

Mum’s magic, the house ninja.

Dressing. Shirt white, trousers black, belt and braces just like Dad, socks darned although never seen on feet.

The doorway passed through, skimmed by stooped hair.

Plodded size 12’s to the bathroom.

Pee like a horse.

No shave, a comb ran around the face.

Teeth brushed.

Size 12 descends as the body pinballs off the narrow stair walls.

Kitchen smells grease, steam, bacon eggs.

One place set, there used to be two.

She busies and bustles the queen bee.

No word no glances, all is ready.

He sits and consumes, and as he does, she starts to twitter. He only half hears, the rhetoric is cyclical and although the same is always on shuffle.

Finishing he stands, six hands above her, he bends and kisses that well-worn cheek.

The dealer passes the stash, eggy bready treats in a lunchtime box.

He waves goodbye and closes the door; it sticks so he has to slam, that would have been fixed, before.

Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes. ..... No wonder I'm dizzy !

Some people check their credit card statements for fraud. I check mine to see where I've been.

Macrophobia- .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Fear of long waits.

The Thoughts of Chairman Anyhow - 

It’s a little known fact that Robert Mugabe was really from Yorkshire. He tried keeping it quiet but if you say his surname backwards, the clue is there….

Finish with a Song - This is The Show must Go On by Queen released in 1991.