Free indirect style on Cambridge

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Esioul

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Here's a crappy bit of free indirect style I wrote about Cambridge. Names changed a bit. I hope it's not too appalling.....

I got up at 4 am because she cried and fed her then I got up properly at 6am and had a shower and fed her and changed her nappy and dressed her and put on some lipstick on me but only a small bit because lipstick is expensive. I put on my new shoes only £10 from Wentworth’s on Saturday and put her in her pram and we went to the crèche, it was raining and it was cold so I was almost glad to leave her there with the other babies and I didn’t talk much to the other mums because I wanted to get out of the rain and to work. It was busy on the tills all morning I can’t remember how many customers I had I was hot so I didn’t put my coat on when I went outside the heel of my shoe came off so I had to hobble but I picked her up she was grouchy so we went straight home and didn’t go to the park and I fed her and put her to bed then I stuck the heel back on then I watched a programme about holidays in Greece and it was hot and beautiful but the news came on next all dead bodies and murder and war so I went outside and looked at the garden grass needs cutting so I looked up at the sky which was blue in parts with grey clouds which had gaps in them with yellow bits where the light came through like it was sick or something and birds were being blown about by the wind how do they ever get to go where they want? The sky is bigger than anything I was thinking about it and what it would be like to be there, above Grogminster and looking down on this estate and on tescoes and the park and the river and is this estate and tescoes and the park and the river the only things that I could look down on I mean there must be other things, bigger things, places like in that programme on Greece where you could see through the sea and the sand was like crumbs of gold and everyone was beautiful and not tired and happy but she cried so I went to change her nappy then I took her round to her nanna’s and I went back to work for the evening shift it was busy again and there was a difficult customer or two but I didn’t listen because I was thinking about how the sky had been before and how funny it had been all yellow and blue and grey and all so I didn’t notice it was dark when I got outside but soon I was cold so I hurried to her nanna’s and I picked her up and she fell asleep when we got home and I had my tea baked beans on toast and had a bath and watched tv for a bit and thought about the sky even more then I went to bed. I got up at 3am to change her nappy then I
 
Thanks. It's not for a school thing, just something we had studied in school which I got quite into.
 
Nice nice! I esp liked the bit about the birds. It was a nice 'break' to have that question in there. Like little philosophical touches and sudden moves between the description of her actions and her thinking... I haven't read much like this, but it's interesting...
 
Thanks. It was a bit weird to write, but quite fun as well. It's something that James Joyce uses, and Virginia Woolf, I think.
 
Did you write with a purpose, or just let it flow? It's amazing what pops out when you let it. Very fun to read, if a little melancholy. But melancholy is a good thing, too.
 
Not really much purpose, just felt like writing something odd, and two of my friends have just had babies, so it was an obvious subject to choose. I know it's melancholy... but that was sort of intended, too.

I did write some more, but changed my mind about having it. I think it stands better on it's own.
 
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