I’ve trumpeted National Novel Writing Month a ton on this here blog. I have enjoyed every year I have participated. Not only have they created an environment of encouragement and commiseration for people who may have never ventured into writing otherwise (my Mother), but they do great things to encourage youth to write as well! We all have stories and NaNoWriMo helps us tell them.
Ok, that was way thoughtful and somber – point is Yay! I don’t have to wait for November to embrace that feeling again. For the first time ever there will be a National Novel Writing Month Spring Writing Marathon on April 13th. Your marathon can be editing, writing fresh, continuing a story, anything. Just pledge what you can, ’cause you want to support the awesome stuff NaNoWriMo does, and then hunker down on the 13th and write write write! I did and will.
Crisco likes the camera, but sometimes gets too close. He was too lazy to investigate this time and I ended up with a cover for Cat Fanciers magazine or something. Isn’t he handsome?
It was touch and go for a while, and I didn’t even come prepared with extra printer ink, but I did it! Five copies of ‘The Secret is Murder.’ I need to figure out what I’m going to do with it – the copies, and where on the Bean I’m going to post the scans. Here’s a little preview to wet your appetites:
From another night I didn’t know quite what to draw. My husband said this picture was weird, though I think it tells a story well enough. Think: sometime in a desert/apocalyptic future world where crazy big robot overlords patrol the cities there is a guy at a bar. And he has with him an artifact that has been unknown to the people of this world, and the robots too, for ages. Fire. Thus the robot’s intense interest in the match. Or, maybe, different apocalyptic future, this dude in the bar and his robot buddy are concocting a plan to storm the castle which includes setting something on fire. The dude just happens to be an amazing story teller and the robot is enraptured.
