Hot damn!
So my last post was apparently in October, and it was Jack-O-Lantern stencils. I must say that those stencils were awesome, even if we only came in 2nd in the family competition. Nuts to them, says I! I don't have any real good pictures of the finished product, unfortunately, so you have to use your imagination.
Does anyone even still read LJ? Like, from my Old Skool LJ Crew? Hmm.
So hey! I guess I'm, like, a writer now? I dunno. I don't want to go around saying to people "Oh, yes, I'm a writer." It seems pretentious. I suppose if I made a living writing it would be ok, because then I wouldn't feel silly when this happened:
"A writer, huh? Anything I've read?"
"Oh, well, probably not. I mean, just some things on the internet. Mostly I sell ice cream."
Which I do, now. Sell ice cream, not have that conversation. I can't recall if I posted about this already, but the trade magazine I do a cartoon for, the Music and Sound Retailer, had no writer one month. They have different people write the column I illustrate every month but one guy just said he wasn't gonna do it. So I said I could do it, not really expecting them to accept, and they did! Hot damn! I wrote the hell out of that article, I really did. It was a hit, and I got to write about my town a little, so that was cool. And I got paid a good amout, so that was better. I digress, though. Like I said, I write little things on the internet. Perhaps you are bored and would like to read them? The site that got me going is a little place called www.365tales.com. All the stories on it are a maximum of 365 words. Yours truly has about ten stories on there. I learned that you can see all the stories by a certain author by putting their name after the address, so to read all mine you could go to http://www.365tales.com/jkyle. Included in there is "The Mayor Of Shoetown." A children's book I wrote during a slow day at work that has an AAAA BBBB CCCC rhyme scheme. It's about a girl who doesn't wear shoes. Oh, and the mayor of Shoetown. I have to illustrate it so I can be rich. Hey, did you know I don't draw shoes well? I shoulda just written a story about a bunch of damn horses, too.
365 Tales was started by a web-author (also known by the awful term "blooker") who has several web-based serial novels. I'm trying my hand at one, too, but I'm not spreading the word on it, really, until I've built up some content. The story is an old idea I had for a comic strip. It's called "Claw & Order" and it's about a lawyer and her dragon. I think it's the first web-based humor fantasy legal-thriller in the history of literature. That gem is on LJ at
clawandorder
Ok, I'm done now. See you in another two or three months.
Does anyone even still read LJ? Like, from my Old Skool LJ Crew? Hmm.
So hey! I guess I'm, like, a writer now? I dunno. I don't want to go around saying to people "Oh, yes, I'm a writer." It seems pretentious. I suppose if I made a living writing it would be ok, because then I wouldn't feel silly when this happened:
"A writer, huh? Anything I've read?"
"Oh, well, probably not. I mean, just some things on the internet. Mostly I sell ice cream."
Which I do, now. Sell ice cream, not have that conversation. I can't recall if I posted about this already, but the trade magazine I do a cartoon for, the Music and Sound Retailer, had no writer one month. They have different people write the column I illustrate every month but one guy just said he wasn't gonna do it. So I said I could do it, not really expecting them to accept, and they did! Hot damn! I wrote the hell out of that article, I really did. It was a hit, and I got to write about my town a little, so that was cool. And I got paid a good amout, so that was better. I digress, though. Like I said, I write little things on the internet. Perhaps you are bored and would like to read them? The site that got me going is a little place called www.365tales.com. All the stories on it are a maximum of 365 words. Yours truly has about ten stories on there. I learned that you can see all the stories by a certain author by putting their name after the address, so to read all mine you could go to http://www.365tales.com/jkyle. Included in there is "The Mayor Of Shoetown." A children's book I wrote during a slow day at work that has an AAAA BBBB CCCC rhyme scheme. It's about a girl who doesn't wear shoes. Oh, and the mayor of Shoetown. I have to illustrate it so I can be rich. Hey, did you know I don't draw shoes well? I shoulda just written a story about a bunch of damn horses, too.
365 Tales was started by a web-author (also known by the awful term "blooker") who has several web-based serial novels. I'm trying my hand at one, too, but I'm not spreading the word on it, really, until I've built up some content. The story is an old idea I had for a comic strip. It's called "Claw & Order" and it's about a lawyer and her dragon. I think it's the first web-based humor fantasy legal-thriller in the history of literature. That gem is on LJ at
clawandorder
Ok, I'm done now. See you in another two or three months.