Monday, April 2, 2012

What's on your fridge?

I came up with this idea last night and thought it would be worth a try.  What could it hurt?  My professor in college, Ron Carlson, was lecturing on scene and talked about how the items in someone's room or car or home or purse demonstrate character.  You don't just want to put any sort of random detail in your description of a room.  You want the descriptions to reflect on the character or situation. 

One of his examples was what is on people's fridges at home.  Is your fridge clean or is it a home for a family of magnets? 

As a way to collaborate with each other, I thought it would be a fun experiment for everyone to post a list of what is on their fridge at home!  We could use the ideas for inspiration for characters in our own writing.  Free gleaning!  And it might just be interesting to see what comes out in that list.  So, either post your list as a comment on this post or post it onto your blog and post a link in the comment section!  A way to share...from one writer to another.

On My Fridge, I have...

1. a letter from an Italian restaurant with a coupon
2. a recipe for steak with garlic butter
3. a 2 year old photo of my 8-year-old cousin
4. an old Christmas card from 2010
5. a giant green Christmas stocking (the kind you get from the 99 cent store!)
6. a grocery shopping list
7. a turtle magnet that I got in Hawaii on my honeymoon
8. a whole bunch of empty clips
9. a free credit card magnet

I hope you participate, glean, and enjoy! 

3 comments:

  1. FUN. I've got numerous travel magnets from places I've visited around the country...San Francisco, NYC, Amish Country. Also got a photograph of my Compassion child, Jhoan.

    One of my roommates also brought home some child's artwork and stuck it on there. Still don't even know the backstory behind that one.

    Excited to follow your blog!

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  2. okay so i have a big variety of magnets to i've clumped a lot of them together.

    1. black dry erase board (with a quesadilla drawn on it)
    2. 4 magnets with various animals
    3. "got freedom? thank a vet!" magnet
    4. Little Korean girl magnet
    5. restaurants with phone numbers (i.e. baja fresh, corner bakery, pronto pizza)
    6. 9 homemade magnets of flowers, people, and cats
    7. 9 pictures of me and my brother
    8. 1 big picture of my track and field team
    9. 2 big pictures of my dog ginger and my cat juno

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    1. You were in track & field?!

      LOL at the Little Korean girl magnet. xD

      Thanks for posting. :)

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