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Tag Archives: sketchbook
Teenage Beast: Four Months, Twenty-One Days and Three Drafts In
It’s been a while since I posted, but work continues on Teenage Beast. My morning ritual continues, and I’m now into the third draft, which is something I never imagined I’d be saying when I started writing this thing back … Continue reading
Teenage Beast: The Tuesday Doodle
The writing of my Teenage Beast novel continues as I work my way into the second draft. I’m spending my first waking hour working away at it. It’s becoming more cohesive, and I’ll get there. Slow and steady wins the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, black and white art, Canson, comic book art, comic books, creative process, drawing, from the sketchbook, horror comics, horror fiction, horror novel, Illustration, independent author, indie author, indie comics, ink drawing, Joe Williams, novel writing, pen and ink, Pen+Gear, prose fiction, punk rock, rust belt, second draft, self publishing, sketchbook, sketchbook art, Teenage Beast, Tuesday Doodles, writing and drawing, writing process
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Teenage Beast: 102 Days Later
I started writing Teenage Beast on June 7th of this year as a lark. It was going to be a comic book script, but as I started writing scene directions, I found myself getting more and more into the heads … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, black and white art, comic book art, comic books, creative exploration, creative process, drawing, fiction writing, from the sketchbook, horror comics, horror fiction, horror novel, Illustration, independent author, independent comics, indie author, indie comics, Joe Williams, novel writing, pen and ink, prose fiction, punk rock, rust belt, second draft, self publishing, sketchbook, sketchbook art, Teenage Beast, Teenage Beast novel, USA, writing and drawing, writing process
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Teenage Beast: The Home Stretch
This morning I finished the main body of the first draft of my horror novel, Teenage Beast.
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Tagged 1978, black and white art, comic book art, comic books, creative process, creative writing, drawing, fiction writing, first draft, from the sketchbook, horror comics, horror fiction, horror novel, Illustration, independent author, independent comics, indie author, indie comics, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, novel writing, pen and ink, Philadelphia, punk rock, rust belt, self publishing, sketchbook, sketchbook art, Strathmore, Teenage Beast, writing, writing process
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Teenage Beast: Words and Pictures
As I have written before, I have been writing a horror novel — Teenage Beast — since June 7th and frankly, I am surprised by my progress. I thought I would spend several days staring at a flashing cursor, not … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, 1978, black and white art, cartooning, comic book art, comic books, creative process, creative writing, drawing, fiction writing, horror comics, horror fiction, horror novel, illustrated books, Illustration, independent comics, indie comics, It Came From The Sketchbook, Joe Williams, pen and ink, Philadelphia, punk rock, rust belt, self publishing, sketchbook, sketchbook art, Strathmore, Teenage Beast, USA, writing, writing process
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What Are Words For?
A simple question from my wife led me to discover just how much progress I’d made on Teenage Beast. It turns out I’ve been so focused on telling the story that I forgot to keep score. Continue reading
It Wasn’t the Worst Little Sketchbook
I wasn’t crazy about this discounted discount sketchbook when I first got it, but now that it’s gone, I realize it wasn’t that bad after all!
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Tagged analog, Cartoon, cartoons, comics, horror, humor, Illustration, Monkey and Bird, punk, Sketch, sketchbook, Teenage Beast, USA
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Digital Doodles
I’ve mostly set aside my real world drawing tools as an obsession with old computers has been burning through me since around Halloween. I’m trying to frugally future-proof my family’s digital life by gutting and re-configuring computers that have long … Continue reading
