I’ve corrupted the process! I forgot to count the questions after I copy and pasted. Oops, supposed to be eight of them.
SPRING.ME — Get your weirdest questions answered. Ask your main character one weird question, and have that character answer.
Spring.Me? Another social app I’ve never heard of, and one I will not bother to see what it is about, either. Okay, I will go add this to yesterday posts.
my first gerbera this season
Raja, from Duniya Ku, has tagged me in the “Social Media Tag”, forcing kindly giving me a reason to talk about my work-in-progress. Well, there’s not actually a lot of progress at the moment, but we are getting there, my WIP and I. It took a bit of thinking what this tag thing was about, but the answers I give must conform to the required format of these particular social media sites. Here we go, then, people.
This tag was created to let people know about your book published or Work-In-Process or just have fun.
Here are the rules: Copy the questions below and answer them. Then, tag five people to do the tag and notify them; make sure to leave a comment including your post’s URL for the person who tagged you, so that they can go read your post!
Let’s begin!
Eight questions await your answers,
Eight social media it reveals.
Carry on, the knights and lancers.
The crowd is waiting with the squeals.
TWITTER — Describe your plot in 140 characters or less.
My Girl longs to live in the world of the dragons, and the only way she can see how to manage this is to snare herself a dragonrider. Just when she gives up hope, despite her father having an inn and all, her latent talent is discovered. Suddenly she is the most sought after commodity in the Country! STOP RIGHT THERE !! CHARACTERS – NOT WORDS – you dill!
Oh shit … thinking … thinking …
Girl wants a dragon, and there’s only one way to get one! An unexpected way is thrust upon her: she gives up her freedom. She takes it back.
FACEBOOK — With your parents/grandparents flooding this site, who is your oldest character?
My Girl’s father is the oldest main human character, though there are older bit players. Like that old dragonrider in this post. And the wizards and dragons are old, of course. It looks like the ancient ones will not make it into this first novel of the series (I just made that up, sorry.).
INSTAGRAM — What does one of your characters look like?
Imagine her with messy, curly, brown hair.
I can hear you asking – why can’t she get herself one of these dragon-riders? Well, they marry upper crust woman – daughters of bankers and rich merchants and the like: maybe princesses, if I had a monarchy in my story. Besides, My Girl has a few faults.
WORDPRESS — Designing your theme is the funnest part, so how would/did you design your book cover?
I envisage a flying dragon, with two riders, silhouetted again a fiery sky, over water.
TUMBLR — Naming your blog is so difficult! What did you name your book?
Work-in-progress? Okay, I’ll give you a hint. It starts with C and ends with A. That narrows it down a bit, doesn’t it: not. [PS, guess as much as you like, I’m not going to tell you!]
PANDORA/SPOTIFY — What kind of music are you playing whilst writing? If you don’t listen to music, what do you think your main character would listen to?
I listen to whatever Mr R. puts on. He is in charge of the MOG stream to the stereo. At the moment, we are listening to the soundtrack to Dreamgirls.
MYSPACE — All good things must come to an end! What is one book idea that you were really into, but lost interest in?
When I was in primary school (50 years ago, OMGosh!) I wrote and illustrated a little book about a talking grass-seed. I lost interest during his world trip, about India. I drew the Taj Mahal, but didn’t go any further. He might have gone back to Japan, before I lost interest, not sure. I never finished it. I hope I’m not setting a pattern there! My mum still talks about that book. Hey!!!! Comic strip version for my Coursera class? Oh, yes please!
THIS 8th QUESTION ADDED NEXT DAY.
SPRING.ME — Get your weirdest questions answered. Ask your main character one weird question, and have that character answer.
‘Hey, My Girl, I want to ask you something.’
‘Yes, Christine?’
‘Umm, look, why are you so obsessed with dragons anyway?’
‘Who? Me? What gives you that idea.’
‘I noticed … don’t look at me like that … just asking.’
‘Well, while we’re asking questions, then. How about you tell me why we’re all still hanging around here without being told what’s happening next? Christine? … hey, don’t walk away! It’s a perfectly simple question …’
Tag You’re It, ladies…!
Five, you say? Well, I’m positive I have five writers on my followers list… lets wander off and look-see. Now, don’t get offended if you are not here. ❤ I can’t put all 93 of you here.
1. Janice Heck Writes: Power Up Your Writing Craft. Janice has recently launched this second blog, dedicated to writing.
2. Lora at Words on A Limb: Where language and Art Collide. This is a lovely blog, another of those thoughtful places I manage to get around to now and then and not as often as I should.
3. Lisa Reiter – Sharing The Story. Only if you have time, Lisa.
4. Irene A Waters: Reflections And Nightmares
5. Susan Lattwein: Putting In A Good Word. I believe Susan is nearing the end of the sequel to her book, Arafura. I’ll be attempting a review in a few weeks.
Now, I must away and tell the ladies their good fortune. 😀
No, not the stand-up type, comic books. As you might have noticed in my post a few days back, I’m starting a new course at Coursera this week: Comic Books and Graphic Novels (among others). I was only going to look, but boy, I’ve been hooked big-time. The head lecturer, William Kuskin, is so bloody enthusiastic. He is actually a professor of Medieval Literature and he loves comics because they have the same concept: telling a story with words and pictures.
In just under two months, I’ll need to produce a comic – four pages and a cover. How good is that! Well, it doesn’t have to be good. William assured us that most people aren’t good at drawing – stick figures will be fine. Just have a go. OK, I’m in, hook, line and sinker.
Now, this post was prompted by a discussion thread asking people about their favourite comic. I can’t remember now what popped into my head first, but today all sorts of comic characters came to mind. And a lot didn’t, not until I browsed eBay to see if one of the graphic novels recommended was there. It was, but then the comics surfaced. Memories!
Was my daughter named after Wendy the Good Witch? Remember her! – the one in the cute little red jumpsuit.
And then, The Phantom, mum’s favourite character, with his dog Devil. Casper the Friendly Ghost, Jughead, Archie, Veronica, Hot Stuff – that naughty little devil with the pointy tail. Superman, Batman, Spooky, the naughty ghost, Dennis the Menace. Beagle Boys, Donald Duck, Daisy and old Scrooge and the rest of that Walt Disney gang. 
Mickey Mouse didn’t appeal all that much.
And how could I ever forget Dagwood Bumstead and Blondie! Mighty Mouse?
It’s no good – I couldn’t possibly come up with a favourite! Not in a million years.
Unless it is Teena – she was a comic strip in the newspaper and I so wanted to be her, from the time I was eight years old. Mum even agreed that when I became a teenager, I could be called Teena instead of the family nickname of Teen. It didn’t happen, dad refused! As if adding an ‘a’ to my nickname would make be boy-mad and spend all day on the telephone. We never even had a phone, not that I can recall. I borrowed this from Mike Lynch Cartoons Blog. Climbing trees was great fun. And I actually did go on a debating team in fourth form at high school – and it won!
Do you remember how excited you were, when you got your hands on a new comic to read? What was your favourite?
Christine R 
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