The Library had a smell of old books and coffee that lingered in the air when you walked in, the cold air that rushed out when you opened the doors. Rows of shelves filled with books and tables covered with papers and books opened with students cramming last minute study sessions. In one of the far tables against the wall sat a girl with long black hair that gracefully sat against the chair. She was focused on the papers in front of her, with her black nails that traced the words on the page. She wore a pair of dark denim jeans and a black long sleeve shirt.
She was focused on her work hands moving slowly over words and every few seconds grabbing a highlighter to highlight something. She then looked around as if she was looking for something or someone. She went back to writing, looking over her shoulders periodically looking at the doors to the library and eventually went back to work. At one point when the doors to the library opened she turned fast only to turn back to what she was doing as if she was waiting on someone.
Eventually she started to clean up her area placing her highlighters and pens in her pencil pouch and placing it in her backpack. Gathering her papers and placing them into the rings of her binder. Placing the binder into her backpack and zipping it closed and standing up to put it on and pushing her chair into the table. While she was doing that a girl walked into the library and went to the girl when she turned around the girl with the long black hair smiled and hugged her and they both walked out the library together.
What was the main inspiration for this character sketch well at first was that I was going to go for a Gilmore Girl’s type of story, but then while I was writing I just let the words flow and eventually came up with this as my character sketch. I feel that this reflects the universal ideas on something we all have felt anticipation, waiting on something or on someone and in this case of the story she’s waiting for the person we are introduced to in the end. It’s something that we all have been through or could at least relate to and this reflects the connections the readers can have with the character in this story. One of my choices for this story to focus on was setting and sensory details. An example of this would be when I was describing the library having a smell of old books and coffee and the cold air that rushes out when you open the doors. The reason for me adding these details was to give the readers a sense of familiarity like they feel like they have been there or can imagine they are there watching.