Walt Disney hooked me on storytelling – at six, I walked out of The Apple Dumpling Gang wishing I could tell stories of my own. Isaac Asimov turned those daydreams into a mission – at twelve, I read Asimov on Science Fiction and realized I want to be a writer.
Writing is the most pivotal human activity! Broad brush, humans conquered fire a million years ago, tools half a million years ago, articulate speech fifty thousand years ago – but it wasn’t until we could capture our thoughts and pass them on to people far from us in space and time that humanity really started to expand across the planet.
But writing didn’t stop at counting cows and recording lineages – creative writing is the most pivotal kind of writing there is! Humans learn about the world by sharing narratives, not just of what we’ve learned, but of what we might become – so the creation of sustained, realistic, compelling narratives is one of the most important things any human can do.
So, ever since I read Asimov on Science Fiction and realized I could be a writer myself, I’ve been on a mission: to promote creative writing in all its forms, and to help you realize you can be a writer too.
Pictured: The Night of Writing Dangerously.
Posts About Writing
Support the Kickstarter for our Clubfoot Journal
Hail, fellow adventurers! Our small press, Thinking Ink, is running a Kickstarter to launch a journal for parents of children with clubfoot. Written by Betsy Miller, one of Thinking Ink…
Days 189-192
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Viiictory, Twenty-Nine Times
SO! Once again, I have written more than 50,000 words in a month – this time, on Dakota Frost #7, SPIRAL NEEDLE, which is close to being finished. (Yes, yes,…
Day 119
Vincent van Gogh from “Vincent and the Doctor”. Roughed in non-repro blue on Strathmore 9×12, outlined in Sakura Pigma Graphic 1 and rendered in that and Sakura Micron 08, 03,…
Day 118
Quick sketch of H.P. Lovecraft. Not … terrible … per se, but I squashed his head, and there’s something about the face that’s wrong that also bothers me about the…
Day 114
Imagine a man, who comes up tangentially during a writing session, and ends up having his mug featured in a quick Sharpie sketch on 9×12 Strathmore with no roughs whatsoever,…
Day 113
Technically not a drawing, but the outcome of some Photoshop experimentation to see if I could turn the Tangerine Dream Zeit album cover into an image suitable for a wall…
Day 112
Quick Sharpie sketch of Dita von Teese. Not bad overall, but I ended up badly screwing up the proportions and made her face so tall I had to shrink it…
Day 111
Super quick sketch of Patrick Troughton. Drawing every day. And wrote 1100 words. -the Centaur
Day 110
Sharpie sketch of Leslie Nielsen, another actor who has played a vampire (came up with Dakota mocking (in her head) a vampire she met). Roughed in non-repro blue, which was…
