October post round-up

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