Tuesday, November 3, 2009

A typecast a day keeps the gremlins away...right?



Santa says click to read it in fullsize or he'll cap you.


I've come to the conclusion that my creative mojo operates on a series of steam engines and magic. The reason I'm having wordcount issues, I figure, is due to a mechanical gremlin. If you're not familiar with gremlins, they are responsible for all things that vex airplanes, and also novelists. I made that last part up. But it's totally true.

Happy noveling, everybody.

xo
julia

6 comments:

Joe V said...

I enjoy your blog, and am especially inspired (meaning I'll most likely shamelessly copy you in the near future) with the idea of typing over newsprint illustrations. Great combination of graphics and text.

Keep plugging away (he says, who is not doing NaNo this year); I'm like the cheerleader of the type-o-sphere; RAH-RAH-RAH!!

~Joe

Julia Eff said...

Thank you, kind sir. I can't say the idea is mine either, because I first saw it when Monda was doing typecasts on old greeting cards. So.

Sis boom bah~

Aegis Daesumnor said...

Actually, assuming it's not a jamtastic chinese knock-off, Santa will cap you numerous times as the AK has a thirty round clip and is also, traditionally at least, capable of full auto.

Julia Eff said...

Dear, you're going to scare the children. Please keep talk of the full-auto capabilities of Santa's gun off my comments. I have like...a reputation to uphold, or something.

Strikethru said...

Nano is kind of like this old Peanuts cartoon, where Linus wigs out when people remind him that he has a tongue, because if he thinks about it consciously, he just can't stop thinking of it sitting there in his mouth, and he freaks out. Nano sort of puts this spotlight on the act of writing that can freeze a person up.

Julia Eff said...

Strikethru, you just compared writing to a tongue, which is why you win the Awesome Quote Of Today award. Love it. Cherish it. Because I laughed, so hard.