Sunday, December 26, 2010

Post-Christmas Snowpocalypse Cabin Fever Writer's Block Project

Snowed-in? Cold? Losing your marbles? Stuck in a novel that you can't get out of? (Ending interrogative sentences on prepositions?) Try this: draw your main character in a moment of crisis, in a decidedly amateurish fashion. Then disseminate your drawing freely on the internet.






















That'll do 'er.

This took me approximately two hours. I used pencil, fine-point black marker, and my son's crayons on recycled printer paper. Reference photos for the bridge and the abandoned house were found easily via Google. That diamond-patterned thing is a chain link fence.

No holiday cookies were eaten for the duration of the project.

Happy December 26th, all!

7 comments:

David said...

My daughter Laura has proclaimed that you are a good "draw-er" :)

susan s. said...

A house from her family's history? That close to water? Oh, I guess it's on a cliff. She wants to get to it to reconnect before she commits suicide. Hmm. Maybe I should take up writing. . . or start therapy.

VW = forizes, a very illiterate way to address two persons in glasses.

PJ DeGenaro said...

People used to tell me I was a good draw-er in elementary school, so nothing's changed. :D

Nobody's committing suicide in my book, Susan. She's just looking at a long-abandoned house where youthful romances once took place. Now what's this VW stuff?

susan s. said...

Oh, I see that it's labeled Word Verification, not the other way round. It's the word we have to enter correctly before the comment is accepted by your screening feature on Blogger. Surely you've run into it on others' blogs!

Many people try to make a real word out of them. Mine was forizes which immediately made me think of "four eyes," which I was called by cruel children when I got my glasses. So once again my cleverness is lost on someone. Now go back and read it again, before I die of total embarrassment.

My current word verification is 'latickie'.

PJ DeGenaro said...

Yup, I know Word Verification. Sometimes they're very funny.

I was always Forize too, Latickie.

susan s. said...

Very funny! But don't call me Latickie!

PJ DeGenaro said...

Aw, but it has this nice Hawaiian sound to it... which is appealing right now, given the weather in my neck of the woods.