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Do you do arty stuff too Bev?
Yup.
Could you not put some of your work on Litopia too? There are other Litopians who paint and do graphics, maybe we could have a sort of art room here in Litopia. Where could we display some of our stuff @AgentPete - on this thread- make a thread in cafè life- or maybe we could have a "laboratory" where we can also develop book cover graphics- did lot of those at art school.
Is a masterpiece tho xxThey used to call me Leonardo. Sadly I wasn't terribly good. But I tried.
Joking aside some decent Litopians' artworks would be fab.
Book cover graphics sounds a neat idea.
Ooh, like ruthless?
ruethe = pity. compassion. Ruetheless = devoid of pity/compassion -> became ruth and ruthless. Ruthful = pitiable, lamentable. Ruth and ruthful fell out of use in the seventeenth century. So, yes. Ruthless is an orphaned negative.
I'd say, yes, read and study other, and a wide range of, authors as much as possible, but don't copy them. Be yourself. The way to be yourself is to write as much as possible. When you admire an author a lot, it's hard not to copy them in writing you do straight after reading them (and good fun to do it on purpose in a short piece), but if you leave the writing a while then go back to it, you think "this is not me". Then it's good to re-write it, or attempt to, in your own voice.
Thx
Probably, but I’m reluctant to lay down the law here. So much is up to the individual.
I’m definitely in favour of reading “with a purpose”, e.g. I find myself mentally watching for moments of voice and then dissecting/examining what I find in relation to the author’s own journey. I typically read one author at a time, often from the start of their writing career onwards, and it is indeed quite possible to see how the author’s voice asserts itself over time, often from absolutely nothing at all. Hemingway and PG Wodehouse are two recent authorial reads; neither were born at all “fully formed”, they both clearly had to work very hard to become the distinctive voices they later manifested, and in both cases, a lot of the work consisted in paring down, removing everything but the essentials. I seriously doubt whether either would be read at all today if they hadn’t gone through this demanding process. Quite fascinating.
We could play around with imaginary/classics or our own work title covers - using photos, drawings/paintings/design and of course LETTERING.
Yep. To gruntle used to mean to murmur with satisfaction or pleasure. Was around in the fifteenth century, but seems to have fallen into disuse by the eighteenth century.
@dave.crowther - yes do! I miss Beans!
Agree. I think for some books (wink, wink) the cover art is going to be as important as anything else
