Some drawings from today – ink and brush
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Give Up Ghost 3/4
As we round in on the last half of the years TBR list, I’m currently at 86% lol and in no real hurry to finish some of the stories I’m engrossed in. Better luck next year, hey? 51. Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book / Lynda Barry Helpful techniques for writing and picture making #LyndaBarry […]
KBT Progress
Finished NaNoWriMo, but it doesn’t feel as satisfying as imagined to get to 50k words. More satisfying was seeing the tracking of progress every morning as the notebook got fuller and fuller. Also, surprized at how satisfying it is to read things that had been crossed out. I’m retroactively grateful that there’s no delete button […]
KBT Progress
As of today, I’m just under 40k words of a first rough draft. It’s going to be a hot mess to edit – because it’s all notes and bursts of dialogue and some plot and many plot holes. It’s embarrassing and difficult to transcribe, but occasionally I’m bolstered by something decent landing on the page […]
KBT Progress
Just working on the first draft during NANOWRIMO at the moment, but think I’ll continue through December to reach aboooooout 100K words. Currently just over half-way to the NANOWRIMO-goal of 50K. The process of a first draft has been unexpectedly freeing but also terrifying – like having a friend who’s a hot mess and pulls […]
As Per My Last Email…
Tuesday I posted about which books I’m currently soaking up – one of which was Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics. I personally found it to be one of the most holistic guides on the how to craft a satisfying story. With that being my introduction (I’ve never actually read Watchmen) my interest was piqued enough […]
Kombuis Taal Progress
Basically, it’s been reading time: season of the sponge. Currently reading Pieternella – Daughter of Eva (English translation) by Dalene Matthee. She wrote South African historical fiction, with her book Fiela se Kind (Fiela’s Child) arguably being her best known work – curious thinking about it now: but maybe I’m saying that because I grew […]
Kombuis Taal Progress
God, the beginnings of stories always feel chaotic because there’s so much that I don’t know (and more that I’m not aware I don’t know). So for now I’m just trying to read as much as I can find about “Krotoa”/Eva. I guess I’m starting with the story of “Krotoa”, because that feels like the […]