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A fork in the road

On November 3, 2010 By

Claudia, on the fundamental differences between elementary school & middle school.

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Character sketch

On October 28, 2010 By

The third in a small series of character drawings I’ve been doing this week, based on my middle grade novel-in-progress.

Todd is a guy who’s got it all together. Chess club. Hall monitor. And his combat rating in Lords of the Dark Side is a 15. 15! So why’s his very extremely secret [...]

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Drawing the story out

On October 27, 2010 By

Here’s another character sketch from my middle grade novel-in-progress. I really don’t know what I’m going to do with these, if anything, but right now just working on them is re-invigorating me with a sense of purpose as far as my writing goes… so I’m going to keep drawing.

Don’t be swayed by [...]

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Creative Detour: Work in progress

On October 26, 2010 By

The characters of my Middle Grade novel-in-progress look like cartoon characters to me in my mind, at least 60% of the time. So today, I thought, why fight it? And I spent most of my “writing” time drawing. I’ve missed drawing.

This is “the best friend” character.

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