For Life Story Writers

Life stories have long, high-jumping, fast-running legs. They can heal, pass on culture and history to future generations, and set the record straight. They leap into memoirs, autobiographies, songs, poetry, visual art, satires, cartoons, novels, and fact-based fiction. If you're already writing your life stories, or planning to, I hope that my writing journeys shared here will give you ideas for where your journey can take you.


Friday, May 6, 2011

Writer's Block, Cartoonist's Heyday!

What a breakthrough! It's something I knew when I was in kindergarten! I can trace my cartoon character so she always looks the same by putting the light that shines upward (that my friend Gail gave me) under my glass dining table on the sun porch. Then I lay my original drawing on the table and a blank sheet of paper on top, and there's my drawing, clearly showing through, ready to be traced onto the paper on top! I've been trying to figure this out for 4 years! How simple! It doesn't help that I live in an artistic vacuum, due to  circumstances I can't help right now. I'm sure everyone else knew this and could have told me if I'd just asked.

Anyway, here are my latest toons. The Polka Dot toon is about my lovely case of rosacea that blooms in tough times. Click on these to make them larger.







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