And now I'm stuck...
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I wrote this paragraph yesterday that I kinda like, but I have no idea on how to continue.
It's really annoying. :c
The Paragraph
His fingers tapped on the steering wheel, perhaps to somehow relieve the rising tension. His eyes shifted from the road and onto the rearview mirror. He glanced at his daughter's pensive expression as she sat in the backseat gazing out the window with her dull and seemingly lifeless eyes. She hadn't spoken a single word to him since they had left, but her silence was piercing. Like a bloodcurdling scream, it rang throughout his ears. He felt as if something needed to be said. Something needed to break the lull in this nonexistent conversation. He opened his mouth as if to speak, but nothing would come out.
It's interesting, but you could add more to the characters. Where did they leave from? What happened? How did it affect them? These might help you figure out what is the elephant in the room and why it is there.
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My immediate reaction was "who died?" or "did he embarrass her picking her up from school?"
Also for some reason my head seemed to fill in the gaps and told me it's raining. Is it raining?
I had been debating with myself about it raining...
So, I'm gonna go off on a tangent to explain...
I have this distant memory of when my middle school class had to write a story for some contest thing... I remember being in the English classroom after school and a girl was reading over some of the entries and she complained about them all being depressing to some degree and that they all had it be raining... For some reason, I made this connection with rain = a sad story... Which might be a stereotype, or something... I don't know, maybe I'm just being really silly.
Anyway, thanks for the help!