Here is quick summary of the October blog posts (not including Patreon posts). And my chapbook Travelogues: vignettes from trains in motion is now out!
The starred posts have variants on art and writing exercises and games (tags: writing exercise, art exercise), and the observation journal posts generally can be adapted to that.
- September post round-up
- Love Your Bookshop Day sketches
- Spectology interview
- Illustration process — QLA portraits — interview about the Queensland Literary Award portraits process
- *Sketch before story — laying out a story with rough images
- Flyaway reviews and interview
- *Observation Journal — a tremor in the web — recognising ideas that are likely to be fun to pursue
- Inktober and triangulation, or: Nature LOVES a vacuum — constraints and gold leaf
- Flyaway: A creeping sensation — on frightening myself with my own writing
- Travelogues! — is published!
- Observation Journal — things that tell you what they’re doing — pursuing a fascination
- “The Present Only Toucheth Thee” reviews
- Travelogues: All the shape of the land — thoughts on a group reading of Travelogues!
- *Observation Journal: adapting business — translating technical language usefully
- Anthology announcement: Bitter Distillations — a new story coming out, and some art not by me
- *Reversing out, and the story-behind-the-story — lifting the top off a story to tighten what’s underneath
- Mother Thorn — pre-orders! — a new Juliet Marillier book, illustrated by me!
- Observation Journal: A sketch, a bear, success
- *Observation Journal — reversing the audience — flipping the assumed reader/viewer to find out what you’re up to
- Flyaway: Locus review
- November calendar: house plants
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