I wrote last Friday how I’d woken up early with the idea to make a story work after years of telling then writing then rewriting. Well I tried it out today at Dartmouth and Kingsbridge Libraries, and it works brilliantly. Just one or two little changes and I can get on with a dummy. I’m thrilled. I’ve been trying to get this right for so long and all it need was to find out the name of the heroine… simples!
Pencil Roughs
I’ve just finished the pencil roughs for my first Axel Storm book. I’m not going to share them with you because they look a complete mess! I use that word, “rough,” to mean just that.
There is a level of reworking and sketching and roughing out that makes the finished drawings lose something – spontaneity, I suppose. I’d rather do a bad finished drawing, scrap it and start again than do too much work at the pencil stage.
I pity my editors. Every time I get a new editor, they have to learn my language of roughs. Sometimes they really can misinterpret!