Today, one of my BFF's on here - 
, formerly known as 
, talked about writing less and talking more, in yesterday's Why I quit blogging....
This is something I can easily relate to, and a transformation I have gone through several times in my 4 and a half years on Hive. I might even be going through it now...
The above might seem funny or contradictory, as it comes two weeks after I started daily writing, once again, but it's also a logical consequence of going from a forced state of ( daily ) writing to more of a natural, flow state.
I was also aiming to get back to my actual ( book writing ). Writing less on here and spending more time on that, was - eventually - what I'm aiming for.
So all is well ;<)
Today I was thinking of sharing another fragment of my upcoming book and yesterday night, I tried to make a sketchie to go with it. A quick drawing that, if I liked it enough, might end up as an illustration in my book.
Here's the book fragment that I am referring to:
He woke up, bathing in sweat ( Yes, raptors could sweat too! ), with cramps in his stomach and a feverish feeling pressing behind his supersensitive eyes.
Had this anything to do with the bird that he’d eaten last night or had it all just been a bad dream?
Hypersensitivosaurus had to admit that he had thoroughly enjoyed the chase - he hadn’t felt that good in ages - but that didn’t change the fact that it hadn’t been his intention to kill the poor fellow, let alone by scaring it to death!
I imagined Hypersensitivosaurus waking up from a bad dream, sweating and panicking.
The sketchie didn't go as planned. I struggled with a bunch of things. I wanted to draw your favorite raptor in bed, but realized I wrote, somewhere in my book that bedlinnen wasn't invented yet. I am not even sure whether he would sleep in a bed or in some kind of nest on his cave floor.
I am seriously considering to remove that ( bedlinnen ) detail from the book, or to leave it in and check whether my future reader will take notice of that detail.
Another thing that didn't seem to work out - and something I have been confronted with, ages ago - while trying to draw Hypersensitivosaurus sleeping underneath a fig tree - was his tail and how he would even be able to lie down at all.
And then there was his tongue, as well as the look on his face. What kind of tongue and what kind of expression should I give the fellow?
The above shows you the sketchie that I wasn't satisfied with but decided to share with you anyway, as sharing the process, warts and all, is very important for me, as a creative.
Just now, I took a picture of my wood burner ( with the door open ), to possible add as a background to the dino waking up 'bathing in sweat'.
I tried a couple of things and ended up just sharing a picture of my left hand holding a cut out of a now tiny looking raptor ( more like a baby lizard ) in front of my pixeled TV screen showing a picture of my fire.
Does it look like I'm about to burn this little guy? No worries, I won't. I wouldn't even think of burning this paper cut out. It's also not meant as a metaphor for my book writing. I won't burn my main character nor will I quit with my book. I just thought the scene looked cute and dramatic, all at once ;<)
TO BE CONVINUED..
