Lukeman Exercise Part One | Chase Ferguson

I knew after getting up today that I would soon have to dress myself only after showering in the hot water, which would rinse off the soap of which I had scrubbed my dirty self with in the attempt to get clean. If I didn't go through this daily routine, I might not have the opportunity for another twenty four hours and thus remain stinky and grimy feeling for the whole day, not to mention get even dirtier.

A character who thought in such long sentences as this would be someone who looked into things very deeply. Someone who had to analyze every decision under a telescope to decide on its affects, good or bad. I think this character would most naturally be a stress freak. Reading his thought process made me want to scream, "Just get in the freaking shower and get on with it!". But I discovered from this activity that if I wanted to portray a character who had the stressful mentality on life, that drawing out longer sentences would really help convey that. If I would have typed something like, "I got up today, and got in the shower as usual." It would have made the character seem way to care free, or just depressed. But filling in his more detailed thought process and putting the period further out there helped a great deal.

This exercise indeed has taught me something that can be used in my other writings, by keeping the sentence length appropriate with the feeling of the message to be communicated.