Here’s a video that shows you how to draw a crab. This is based on my book, Nip! Nip! a very early phonics book that I’m really quite proud of. It has only three letter words made out of the letters SATPINMD and I think it’s quite a fun story! I show it to year six and beyond and they all really like it!
You tube has changed things recently. If you see a thumbs up anywhere, please click it if you like the video.
For the first time in my life, I’ve written something that has made me laugh out loud! Actually it brought tears to my eyes. It’s the character that did it – Axel Storm’s bombastic Uncle Ritchie’s character is expanding as I write. He’s a monster! I never knew this until I began writing him in.
He appeared in the distance, driving across the plain in a cloud of dust, screeched to a halt and surprised me as well as Axel and his Mum and Dad, who knew what he was like all along – otherwise they would have stayed at his ranch. I was reading the opening chapter out aloud and was taken by surprise at how awesome he has turned out to be! Axel thinks he’s wonderful.
You’ll have to wait ’til the autumn to read it. (Unless he gets edited into something more wholesome – will I be allowed to keep the shotgun scene!?)
Youtube has a wonderful new system. It looks at video sound tracks and through the power of its algorithms, produces a captions track for the hard of hearing. How great is that?
Well, I download the text they analysed from my latest video – How to draw a running dog – and was amazed at what came out. See what you think:
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talk and and of a different kind of well the
let’s get going
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this is going to be just like the the running
kept thinking and to keep them on
but this is don’t feed him and that
it started out in the cold that I wanted to
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kind of packaging and stock exactly
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I can’t find the world turns them into into courtrooms