Some friends are participating in Nanowrimo this year and invited me to join them. Since then, little ideas have darted around, flitting through the back of my mind as I go through my day. I am intrigued by the challenge, though I'm not a novelist by any means! I've had different ideas for characters or scenes, but nothing that holds together. So I thought an artistic approach might help.
I took out my old sketchbook that still had some blank pages in it. Using watercolors, I thought I might try to sketch out a character for this potential novella. I started with the eyes and watched to see who would emerge from the page. After a little while, this is who arrived:
I took out my old sketchbook that still had some blank pages in it. Using watercolors, I thought I might try to sketch out a character for this potential novella. I started with the eyes and watched to see who would emerge from the page. After a little while, this is who arrived:
I think it should be nice to paint numerous characters. Having never attempted a novel-in-a-month before (or at all), this may be a gentle way to approach the idea of owning make-believe people and their lives, so as to construct an interesting way of telling others what happens to them.
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