I am now partway into the Fifty Thousand Words in Fifty Days challenge, and have just passed a pause day. I have written over seven thousand words!
Category Archives: Red Rabbit! Red Rabbit!
The Bookmarks Came!
Glossy on the front, matte on the back. They look good!
I ordered from Vistaprint to see what their quality was like, and requested expedited shipping, so that I can have them when I go to the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair on Sunday!
A Need for Giveaways
So there I was. I had just wandered into a convenience store while wearing my new shirt that I had made with the logo of The Rabbit Trap. The cashier was asking me about it, what did it mean, and I was describing the book. He asked, did I have any info on it that he could give out, and I had to admit I did not yet. Creating something to give away was literally the next major thing I was doing.
To that end, I have now created and ordered bookmarks for The Rabbit Trap. Hopefully they will be here this week.
Versions of the First Book Trailer
The book trailer for The Rabbit Trap went through a lot of evolution.
It’s technically an ‘animatic’, a kind of draft animation that can be quickly produced and adjusted as ideas change. A fully-animated work would follow on from it.
I started out by drawing a few rough sketches on paper and putting them in order.
Then I decided to try Boords, the online storyboarding service.
Continue reading…and now, on to Fifty Thousand Words!
Now that the first book trailer is done, I am moving on to the Fifty Thousand Words in Fifty Days dare. One of the members of Akosua’s Write-Now Club (of which I am a part) has provided a convenient online spreadsheet we can use to track how many words we write.
And I think that the first little thing I will write is a script for the second book trailer, in which I hope to get someone else to do better drawings…
A Book Trailer for The Rabbit Trap!
With the help of friends, I finished it! I am very thankful for Akosua Brown, who provided inspiration and support, and to Dave Ranson and Sandy Kay, who provided voices (even if just one word!).
A book trailer, shirts, and Fifty Thousand Words
I have been working on an animatic, a kind of limited animation, to make a book trailer to promote The Rabbit Trap. I hope to have it done in a few weeks.
To express my gratitude for the help I have gotten with it, I have ordered shirts! They will include the new logo I have developed for the story.
As far as the story itself is concerned, Akosua and the Write-Now Club are proposing another writing challenge: another Fifty Thousand Words in Fifty Days challenge! This will take us to the end of summer, conveniently when I had planned to have a first draft done. I’ve pulled out Scrivener and started organizing things already.
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If you’re looking for information about The Rabbit Trap, The Lonely Little Fridge, or my other works, this is the place!
The Rabbit Trap
A family escapes a totalitarian nightmare, but what happens when one of them wants to go back?
This full-length novel is a sequel to the story “The Rabbit Hole” published in a compilation by Kipekee Press.
The Lonely Little Fridge
A fridge is thrown out. Will it find a new and better home?
This children’s book is available in multiple languages. Find out more.
A segment from The Rabbit Trap!
Linda of Funny Face Fiction has featured a segment from The Rabbit Trap on her blog!
The story is about a family who escapes a totalitarian nightmare — and what happens when one of them wants to go back.
This segment provides a view of the Great Revolt, where enslaved humans desperately try to escape captivity. It is draft text that may or may not make it into the final book.
Funny Face Fiction is the publisher of Hollow Edge by Frankie Cameron.
NaNoWriMo(esque)
So we were talking at the writers’ group today, and the subject of NaNoWriMo came up. NaNoWriMo is National Novel-Writing Month, basically a dare to write 50 000 words in thirty days, the month of November.
One of the members had a spreadsheet of something similar, called “Fifty Thousand Words in Fifty Days”. This seems a little less intense, given that I’m doing other things as well, like art and work and finishing The Lonely Little Fridge.
I asked to use it, and got the okay. Here’s my version of the spreadsheet, as a Google Sheet handily embedded in this post (find out how):
It starts out quite small. Work was running fast today, but I had plenty of chances to think about things. I am going to work on “Red Rabbit! Red Rabbit!”, first finishing off some planning with Jackie, then onward.
First things: three endings and three beginnings to the story.