Happy Fourth of July to everyone in the USA- Mandy Calvin
Showing posts with label comic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic. Show all posts
April Fool
We writer's can be so cruel to our characters can't we? We just dump them into a world of terrible conflict. Anyways, happy April Fools Day! What pranks do you have up your sleeve today? Tell me about it in the comments below.
Mandy Calvin
In the Arctic
I have been watching animal planet a lot recently. Watching the simple life of animals is a refreshing break from action packed, super explosion movies drugged up on special affects. On a few of the animal shows I found myself poking fun at the narration. Some of the things the narrator said were melodramatic and/or cheesy. It really took away from the sincerity of story being filmed. I think there is a lesson in that. When you have story, don't try to force more drama than there is. Let it be, as the Beatles so nicely put it. Tell the story the way it is and it will be more realistic than phony.
I hope you enjoyed my little comic and I would love for you to check out other comics, poems, and stories on this blog. All comments and constructive criticism are welcome.
Yours Truly,
Mandy Calvin
Genres Galore
So the other day I was listening in on a conversation between a group of writers. The part I overheard was how they described what genre they wrote. They used fancy titles such as post apocalyptic action adventure and detective mystery thriller. One mentioned they wrote realistic fiction, a term I never heard before but it makes sense. Myself, I'm undeclared. I'm still testing every genre. It's part of my journey as a writer to try every genre and to see what I want to do. Looking for my genre is a fun process though. It's like entering an ice cream parlor and trying every flavor, except it's less fattening.
My little doodle doesn't show every fiction genre and sub genre, but it was my attempt to. According to the dictionary a genre is a type or kind of literature, art, or popular fiction. Well, every work of literature is unique. Most of them don't fit into just one type and some make their own type it would seem. So there needs to be a large variety of genre labels.
What genres did I miss in my drawing? Do you write in one particular genre or not?
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