Tag Archives: writing
stitch london sketch
So last night I went to my first Stitch London meeting. I still don’t know how to knit, but it’s such a great place to draw fab-looking women all sitting fairly still. Here’s my studio mate and stitch London organiser … Continue reading
co-writing morning & brain landscapes
I spent the morning with writer and illustrator David O’Connell (tozocomic) working on a picture book manuscript that’s gone back and forth to David Fickling about five times. We already have the contract for the overall concept, based on a … Continue reading
pome
(Can anyone give me a last line?) This one’s dedicated to Giles Andreae, creator of Purple Ronnie and Edward Monkton, and who wrote the poem for the book I just illustrated, Morris the Mankiest Monster. (He writes poems just a … Continue reading
top page-turners
Messing around with ink again. This is me twigging out, waiting for my Christmas DFC double issue to arrive: Yesterday, buried in snow, David Lasky (dlasky) gave me two good websites for looking up work by Frank King (Gasoline Alley) … Continue reading
blubbering in an oxford coffee shop
Saturday night was great fun, seeing Sally Nicholls launch her first novel, Ways to Live Forever. I read it on the train up to Oxford today, and I was a little early for my meeting and managed for finish it … Continue reading
creative writing challenge
Right now I’m working on my writing, and I heard about this short story challenge with Answers.com. The construct seemed very artificial – I had to use their ten hyperlinked words in a 750-word story – but I often work … Continue reading
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