Jewel/Jewellery/ Jeweller

Some ideas to get you started:

Is it a single piece of jewellery, or a lot?  Is it a single gemstone, or a bagful of gems? Is it real, or fake, or costume jewellery?

What’s the story associated with it / them? Personal or professional?

Personal – whose is it / was it? Why does your character have it? What are they going to do with it? What emotions are there surrounding this jewellery?

Professional – the story could be about gemstone miners, traders, cutters, setters, jewellers, antique dealers, thieves…

You get places described as ‘The jewel of…’

e.g. India was described as ‘the jewel in the crown of the British Empire’; Croatia has been described as ‘the jewel of the Adriatic’.

And of course, there are people who are described as a jewel, or a gem.

This is taken from my first book, Gingerbread Children, and in this scene, the temporary head of the Union (University of Nature, where witches are trained) is thinking about the recently deceased Head of the university.

In a few weeks’ time, Dominica thought, there’ll be another portrait up on the wall. Another link in the chain. It’ll show that Imelda was another pair of capable hands through which The Union had safely passed. Another steady, measured study of calm Matriarchal efficiency. It won’t show her doing sleight-of-hand tricks for kiddies, or thumping the table at a Senior Council meeting, or topping up Matron’s elderflower spritzer with something stronger at the Walpurgis Night revels. It won’t show the jewel that was Imelda; it’ll only show the box the jewel came in. And after a few years, the box will be the only thing most people will recall, for those who have seen the jewel will be few, and the many will not believe that such a box could hold such a jewel.

If you’d like to read more from Gingerbread Children, you can click on read the start and it’s available to buy by clicking on buy it now.

Then there’s the Crown Jewels, the family jewels – aristocratic heirlooms (yes, I know there’s another meaning to it!)

So, stories, poems or just descriptions, if you like based, around the subject of jewels.

Stories: As usual, who, where, what, when, why and how…

Poems: try to distil the essence of what you want to say

Descriptions: try to make it as rich as you can – make us see the thing you’re describing.