Pure Procrastination: Inside the Notebook

Hello there, and welcome to Super Sundays! I have no idea what’s so super about it, either.

Onto business!

You may know that Friday, I talked about drawing, and that I had recently adopted a new cartooning style. Well, today, I found that my cartooning style translates well into MS Paint! Huzzah! Pictures of some of my characters will be posted at the bottom.

Now, the real deal. First, some more advice. Many writers are writing in between college and school and jobs, and that means in between homework. That may mean that you don’t have enough time to get your homework done, get in your fix of goofing off, AND write! Well, there is an easy solution to this. One of course, is setting a schedule, but I covered that before. Today, though, I’ll be covering blending in with homework. First, set a nice daily goal as all good writers should. Say for example…500 words a day on weekdays, 1,000 on weekends. If you’re in school and have a homework planner of some sort, then write it down in there. Now, treat every night like a homework assignment. You have to get those 500 words in or you might get a low grade on… uh… writing your novel! This may seem a little too contrived, but it’s not actually that hard. Add it to your work schedule is all you have to do. If you have parents or a roommate that likes to enforce you getting your work done, then get them in on it, too! A little prodding never helps.

Hooray, progress diary time. Today was the first time I wrote in ages, because I’m such a horrible procrastinator. How come I can tell others how to not procrastinate, but not I? And, as my horrible writing existence would have it, I wrote a measly one to two hundred words. Come on! Who does that? But, I like what I wrote. Houl’s riding cat, Basha, has been being stubborn and refuses to let him ride her. As a result, he has to tug her along by a rope on his way back to the wagon to catch up with the rest. If there’s one thing I’m good at writing, it’s a little slapstick. A paragraph or two ensues describing his futile attempts to mount her (get your mind out of the gutter, pervert). He, at one point, tries to feign giving up, and then leaps onto her at the last second. But, being a sly little cat, she sidesteps the ambush and he falls flat on the ground. For quite a while afterwards, Basha sits with his head cradled in her mouth like a lion cub playing with her litter mates. Only this is to subdue him. And so he… oh, never mind, you don’t want to hear me talk about MY needs anymore! Here are some pictures of characters from my novel done in MS Paint in a cartoony style!

The main villain giving us a toothy smile

Royce giving us a confused look in his GGH (generic grey hoody)

Why so serious, Sylviet?