Vivian Kirkfield's yearly contest inspires frugalness with words. https://viviankirkfield.com/2024/03/02/the-50preciouswords-2024-international-writing-contest-is-open/comment-page-13/#comment-280875 I thought these old sketches went well with my submission. One done many years ago when my girls were young. The other done in my college days, of dorm chums Cindy and Kris. We need friends through out our lives. …
Discover Your Character
Looking over your shoulder. Look over your manuscript, your sketches, or even your shoulder and you may discover your character. The character of your story that is. Character is all around you. In people, animals, sometimes even in the objects around you and the spaces between them. Sounds strange, I know, but I'll share a drawing sometime of a character I saw in the combination of a tree and it's surrounding spaces. Today's shared …
Laughing is good for your health.
Don't however, share humor with a dragon. I always feel wonderful after a good laugh. It doesn't take much to make me laugh. Slapstick works, unless it's way over the top, or overused. I'm a sucker for goofy faces. Ironical humor sometimes goes over my head. But whatever the variety, I never want people to stop trying to make me laugh. I think it's the key to a long life. My dad was always laughing and being goofy, and he lived to be 95. …