Things that make me happy lately: coloring books are back in style. I still owned one from the 1970s when I used to draw in the Mucha, Beardsley and Erte costume coloring books. I got a new one for Christmas--lots of flowers and squiggly lines, but still fun. Bought some marvelous paint like marking pens. I just love coloring books ( Read more... )

Do those of you who write use an outline or just set out with half a plot in mind? I'm the latter--always have been. Can't organize a story ahead of time to save my life. I usually know the beginning, and vaguely where we are headed with some idea of how it will end. Then, as I write, scenes and dialogue sort of slot themselves in appropriately ( Read more... )

While looking for something else, I found an old journal I scribbled in circa 1981, and kinda liked this...

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