I love these quotes. These in combination with Lynda Barry’s books is all you need to get started and continue with sketching. One thing I learned in the cartooning course I did was, when you make a mistake, go over and over it. Your eye will pick the right lines and discard the others.
Yes! And now the challenge is identifying when something is or isn't a mistake. "Kill your darlings" they say in writer's advice columns. But sometimes in the advice too little is said about how to do CPR or rehabilitation afterwards. Sometimes a mistake correction is found to be itself a mistake. I've reverted to keeping versions of documents just in case. But most of the time good enough is good enough...and yes, delete is nice!
Much writing advice online, such as "Kill your darlings," is like a game of Telephone. It's taken out of context, its original meaning has been lost, and it's been oversimplied into a series of "rules," i.e., "thou shalt not"s that may or may not apply to the individual writer's work-in-progress.
I love these quotes. These in combination with Lynda Barry’s books is all you need to get started and continue with sketching. One thing I learned in the cartooning course I did was, when you make a mistake, go over and over it. Your eye will pick the right lines and discard the others.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the quotes. I love Lynda Barry's books too! I do that go over and over technique too ❤
Composing on the computer makes writing mistakes of all kinds so easily repairable now. Delete, delete, delete!
Yes! And now the challenge is identifying when something is or isn't a mistake. "Kill your darlings" they say in writer's advice columns. But sometimes in the advice too little is said about how to do CPR or rehabilitation afterwards. Sometimes a mistake correction is found to be itself a mistake. I've reverted to keeping versions of documents just in case. But most of the time good enough is good enough...and yes, delete is nice!
Much writing advice online, such as "Kill your darlings," is like a game of Telephone. It's taken out of context, its original meaning has been lost, and it's been oversimplied into a series of "rules," i.e., "thou shalt not"s that may or may not apply to the individual writer's work-in-progress.
So absolutely true!!! ❤