Paradise Beach is Emily's home. She has grown up here with her Gran and Gran's helper-friend Mamasita, along with her best friend Sam.
Emily loves the seaside village, with houses of so many different styles and materials, built in different centuries, some with plumbed toilets, others still with long drops! What embarasses Emily the most about her little village is the honey cart: a great big, yellow, round cement like looking truck that sucks up all their wee and poo from the septic tanks. On days that the honey cart comes to empty their tank, Emily makes sure she is far away, as the stench is anthing but honey-like!
Emily's favourite place in the village is the face brick library on the village common since her head is always stuck in one book or another. She also likes the smell, quiet and calm that can be found in the one roomed library. Next to the library, to it's left, are the swings where she will often meet Sam, even though they are too big to use them. It is here that she first saw the ugliest beak faced monkey thing that aspirated in a puff!
The village is accessed from the main road, many kilometers away. A single tarred road goes all the way down to the parking lot at the Tea room. The tea room is the heavenly place where ice creams, sweets by the dozen, magazines, bits, bobs, bread and milk, meat and mustard, tea and coffee - the basics - can be found. People on day trips will sometimes stumble into the village and almost always end up staying for lunch at the tea room, looking out over the rock pool and large white lipped ocean.
Paradise Beach, according to Emily, is heaven!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Character Sketch: Josh
Emily meets up with Josh when she moves into Kingstown to boarding school, but it is Josh who finds and sees her first.
Josh lives with his parents around the corner from the courthouse, in a corner that is strangely hidden from view. Josh is a sassy streetkid, with dark spikey hair and an intuition that exceeds anyone's knowledge. Josh knows most things before anyone else - and keeps Emily on her toes, as he seems to be able to read her mind.
Josh loves Kingstown as much as Emily first hated it. He knows all the back streets where beauty and surprises can be found. He is Emily's link to the all important Edwina, and her store, that outwardly could look like a store (albeit with a scary, wierd door) but is more than a store. Josh laughs out loud at Emily and makes her crazy with his secretiveness, but he is always there, watching over her and things gives Emily strength.
Josh, in the words of a poet, is a mensch!
Josh lives with his parents around the corner from the courthouse, in a corner that is strangely hidden from view. Josh is a sassy streetkid, with dark spikey hair and an intuition that exceeds anyone's knowledge. Josh knows most things before anyone else - and keeps Emily on her toes, as he seems to be able to read her mind.
Josh loves Kingstown as much as Emily first hated it. He knows all the back streets where beauty and surprises can be found. He is Emily's link to the all important Edwina, and her store, that outwardly could look like a store (albeit with a scary, wierd door) but is more than a store. Josh laughs out loud at Emily and makes her crazy with his secretiveness, but he is always there, watching over her and things gives Emily strength.
Josh, in the words of a poet, is a mensch!
Monday, August 4, 2008
Character Sketch: Emily May Harrison
Emily May Harrison is the key character in the Scroll of Seven Series.
Emily is a reluctant warrior and hero, who often feels that she does not have the confidence to deal with what life - and the universe - throws at her. However, there is an inner core, an inner strength that is slowly appearing and that she is learning to trust.
She has long, brown hair which is often braided into a plait hanging down her back. She has long slim legs, eyes that see things that other don't and a teenagers strong heart. At the base of her neck, hiding under her plait, is her Eight - a sideways infinity symbol that appeared straight after her birth.
She is about twelve years old, so is finding herself as her gangly legs become more shaped and strong, along with her body transforming into something beautiful to behold. She has lost some key people, both her Mom and Dad (one to death, the other just dissapeared) and because of this, questions her life and those around her, even as she feels the love of her Gran and her Gran's sidekick, Mamasita.
Her home is in Paradise Beach, a seaside village, where she has the freedom to walk around and play with her friends. Her best friend is Sam, another girl, who has the confidence and outspokeness that Emily often envy's. Emily loves the library at Paradise Beach and is a voracious reader. She doesn't wear glasses.
She is starting to notice the boys around her and is sometimes embarrased by her awareness and them noticing her. When she moves to boarding school she meets up with Josh, a street boy, who can almost read her mind - and he makes sure to let her know when he feels her looking at him!
She goes through stages when she feels really confident and knows that she can do things, so takes the lead and charges ahead, to other times when all she wants to do is shove her head under a pillow and make it all go away.
She ultimately has many, many questions and is searching for their answers, while still trying to be a 'normal' person finding her way in the world.
Emily is a reluctant warrior and hero, who often feels that she does not have the confidence to deal with what life - and the universe - throws at her. However, there is an inner core, an inner strength that is slowly appearing and that she is learning to trust.
She has long, brown hair which is often braided into a plait hanging down her back. She has long slim legs, eyes that see things that other don't and a teenagers strong heart. At the base of her neck, hiding under her plait, is her Eight - a sideways infinity symbol that appeared straight after her birth.
She is about twelve years old, so is finding herself as her gangly legs become more shaped and strong, along with her body transforming into something beautiful to behold. She has lost some key people, both her Mom and Dad (one to death, the other just dissapeared) and because of this, questions her life and those around her, even as she feels the love of her Gran and her Gran's sidekick, Mamasita.
Her home is in Paradise Beach, a seaside village, where she has the freedom to walk around and play with her friends. Her best friend is Sam, another girl, who has the confidence and outspokeness that Emily often envy's. Emily loves the library at Paradise Beach and is a voracious reader. She doesn't wear glasses.
She is starting to notice the boys around her and is sometimes embarrased by her awareness and them noticing her. When she moves to boarding school she meets up with Josh, a street boy, who can almost read her mind - and he makes sure to let her know when he feels her looking at him!
She goes through stages when she feels really confident and knows that she can do things, so takes the lead and charges ahead, to other times when all she wants to do is shove her head under a pillow and make it all go away.
She ultimately has many, many questions and is searching for their answers, while still trying to be a 'normal' person finding her way in the world.
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