Sketches – Hannah Frankman

Diner Sketches 4.1.18

by Hannah FrankmanFiction, Sketches, Uncategorized April 1, 2018April 13, 2018No Comments

Location: Bob’s Diner, Carnegie, PA Date: 4.1.18 (Easter) The Game: while waiting for your food at a diner (or any public place, really, though diners are most fun), choose and describe people around you. Don’t give away any blatantly obvious details, but write with the intent that someone could look around the room and pick …

Writing Exercise Day 1

by Hannah FrankmanSketches, Writing March 1, 2018March 30, 2018No Comments

For the next ten days, I’m starting my daily writing with a warm-up exercise. I’ll randomly choose a passage from Steinbeck, Hemingway, or Babel, type it out (to internalize the language), analyze the style, and then mime it in my own vignette. Today’s Passage: “We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that …