At 2.29am this morning I finished the 13 page comic which serves as December’s book. The plot is a bit thin, but some of the drawings are nice.
I am still a bit shell shocked, but happy. I’ll be back in the New Year with some reflections and the like, and some information on stage two of the 12 books project. See you then!
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As December finishes, it is time for another entry to The Pictonaut Challenge.
For those who don’t know what that is – every month The Rogue Verbumancer (also known on the Twitter as @Glempy) posts a different picture on his blog and invites people to write a short (around 1,000 words) story around it. Entrants post their attempts on their own sites, or can send them to TRV if they don’t have one, and at the end of the month he does a post linking to them all. It’s a nice way to flex your writing muscles, particularly if you are working on something that is doing your head in or if you are stuck for ideas and would like a fixed exercise to get you thinking. It’s also really interesting to read the different ideas people take from the same image.
I began writing my December entry during breaks at work, but when I went to finish it today realised I didn’t actually email it to myself. So I wrote a different one, in about an hour (using my favourite app, Write or Die, to get to 1000 words in just over 20 minutes and then revising it in the remaining 40), which I have posted below. It is really not my best work, but such is the nature of the first draft, and hopefully the rawness will help you understand why the fact I have drafted all these books does not mean they are ready to read yet… Continue reading
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My festive stay in Perthshire sans graphics tablet has been prolonged, so the comic isn’t finished. However, it’s a year to the day since I registered the 12 books in 12 months domain name, so it seems like a good time to reflect on how it’s gone.
With that in mind, American novelist Alison Walkley came across 12 books in November, and asked if there was a post explaining the plots of each book.
There is now.
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Happy Festive Season to you, dear readers, from me and this weird sideways faced owl I found at the German market in Edinburgh.
I was hoping to have a PDF of the falcon comic for you to download as a present on Sunday but alas, time got away from me and I’m not going to manage it before embarking upon a round trip of Ayrshire and Perthshire in about an hour.
You can look forward to that next week sometime, but for now why not see if you can make your face go sideways too? It’s hours of fun. This is my one:
Have a lovely weekend.
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All this time I have been bemoaning the fact I can’t do comics during my lunch break in the office in the same way as I can novel, having forgotten the existence of MS Paint. That oversight is now rectified with one for the uni crowd…
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It is 1.27am and I am about to go to bed, having spent the evening drawing and yet failing to finish another page of my hawk comic. Below is one of the panels for your information / proof that I have actually been doing something. I also had a few* photos to upload to the computator from Kid Canaveral’s Christmas Baubles, some of which can be found here.
The main lesson I have learned from this book so far is that I can’t draw, work and sleep – there aren’t enough hours in the day. Still, they say sleep is for the weak…**
*couple of hundred. I did not upload them all, as many were poor.
** who are ‘they’? And what on earth were they thinking?! I’m awful without sleep. Night night.
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