It was a marvelous story.īut can I tell you a story of my own, please? The rescue was nothing short of miraculous. I know you are, like me, in awe of the successful rescue operation in Thailand that got all those kids and their soccer coach out of that dastardly cave.
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Me, being all author-ish and talky, in front of people sitting in chairs in a room with a lot of books.Īnd if I can’t build me a Robot-Vivian between now and September, this will indeed be me, in the flesh, talking about how to write for publication. Phil every afternoon in order to meet my daily goal…sad, but true.) For instance, I had to give up watching Dr. I will introduce you to the realities of the writing life: Are you ready for what it takes to prepare your writing for publication? (Because in my experience, something’s got to give for you to achieve your writing goals. I will urge you go to your local Walmart, your local grocery store, your nearest bus stop I will make you report back to the workshop at least three overheard conversations that you gathered on your new role as a writer, a snoop, an observer of the human condition. I will make you self-conscious as an observer of life so that you understand that life is what gives you copy. In my workshops I will learn you on identifying your voice on understanding what your story is (is it a short story?…is it an episodic memoir?…is a confessional?…is it an 80,000 word novel?) on how to best communicate that story to your readers - in fact, on acknowledging that you are in fact writing for readers who you must visualize and take into account with every word you write. The workshops are free, and open to all interested parties on the second and fourth Thursday evening in each month, from 7 – 9. Speaking of using my split writer/illustrator personality in the real world, I will be a hard-working Writer this September and October, leading four workshops at the Bryant Library in Roslyn, NY. Looks like I’ll be hammering this picture out with my own two hammy fists. I’d really prefer it if the photo would paint itself.Īnd presto - here’s the Waterlogue app doing its thing: If I had guts, I’d re-paint it but yeesh…that’s a lot of work. Here is the illustration that I painted over the course of three of four painful afternoons: Here’s a nice view in Claude Monet’s garden in Giverny, France (taken on my last visit, in May 2015): *Sigh* The guys with the choppers will come for us all, eventually. That huge gnarly Copper Beech was cut down, having become too fall-aparty to be safe anymore. I can’t find the exact reference photo in my files, but here’s what the place looked like last October: I painted my scene (above) from a reference photograph that I took on a foggy Fall morning. You run this photograph through the app and voila:įor comparison, here’s how this scene looks in Gardens of Awe and Folly: Take a photograph of a scene that you want to paint itself (saving you, of course, the bother of getting all that watercolor equipment in line, the paints the paper the brushes the jar of water that needs constant changing the sense of dread and doom that you are going to have to paint this thing over and over again until you get it right etc. It’s called Waterlogue and here’s how it works: Yes! There’s an app that lets a book illustrate itself! I am half way there … in that I have an app that promises to take care of the part of book-making that I call illustration. That would make like so much easier for yours truly. And it reminds me how I better get cracking on that invention that I dream about, the Book That Writes Itself. Seeing this new version of my book reminds me how much work it takes to put a book together. Yes, the English text that appears over the top corner of this watercolor illustration of Karen Kersting’s rose garden in New Orleans was miraculously changed into Korean. I did something in that book that I didn’t do in the two previous books, which was design it so that text was dropped onto and incorporated into full-page illustrations, so I was curious to see how the Korean edition would handle that: Last week my American publisher sent me the brand new Korean edition of my last book, Gardens of Awe and Folly! Sometimes you get something in your snail mail that isn’t junky:
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