bloodyrosemccoy: (I'm Writing)
bloodyrosemccoy ([personal profile] bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-11-13 07:11 pm

While We're On The Subject

This.

The best way to learn to write is to read.

I would add that your other best tool would definitely be a blank wall. Or a game like Tetris or Minesweeper, if you are the sort of person who can do it with just a little of your mind. But no matter what form you give it, the Blank Wall is one of the most important parts of any writer’s toolkit.

Probably the package of fine-tip Sharpies is just me, though.

[identity profile] padparadscha.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Well, book-lovers don't always become writers, but I am totally with her in that I hope writers all started out as book lovers.

... I would like to see this unimerpanda.

[identity profile] kadharonon.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually have TWO iterations of the unimerpanda! Drawn during my copious spare time at my summer internship.

The story behind the unimerpanda is this: one day, I discovered the #followalibrarian tag. Lo and behold, I discovered a very active group of Massachusetts librarians, who all seemed to know each other, at least over Twitter, and began following them, as I, too, want to be a Massachusetts librarian some day. I would watch these twitter conversations when I was bored at work this summer.

One day, they started talking about improbable mythical beasts, and making up their own. They decided that there needed to be one part endangered animal and two parts mythical beast. Somewhere along the line, the unimerpanda was born. Some of them drew her. Truth be told, the first mental impression I was getting of the unimerpanda was a hippocamp with panda markings and ears and a unicorn horn, which I drew at about the same time others were drawing her.

Then, later, I drew a more on-model unimerpanda. Though I think I was the only person to give her a whale-butt.

Really, the only one of the multicolored markers I used for that is the black one, since the container of pens that came with the random office I got shoved into halfway through the summer didn't have any nice black markers in it. (It did have blue and red Col-erase pencils, though, which still kind of baffles me considering the "standard office supply" nature of the rest of the assortment there.) The radish with a backpack on got to use some of the colors, though. (Damn you, Ursula Vernon and your seldom-occurring but distracting tweets!)

[identity profile] sofish-sasha.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ursula Vernon has Twitter? *checks* Woot! *follows* :D

[identity profile] kadharonon.livejournal.com 2009-11-14 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
To now address the first bit: the problem is, I really WANT to be a writer. I've really wanted to be a writer since I was ten or so. I've got notebooks and notebooks from when I was younger full of bad poetry and odd story fragments, but I never got beyond the fragments.

But then, I also wanted to be an animator in high school. I wanted to be a webcomic artist. I wanted too many things, I suppose.

I guess when I'm at home, I should go through the old story fragments and see if there is anything worthwhile.