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my scruffy desktop sketch for november. i was inspired by all the nanowrimo calendars which have been posted by some of the other nanoers this year, but i couldn’t use anything so stylish and slick! it has to be personal to me, which means making a sketch with pen and a bottle of india ink, and a rubber stamp kit.
Finished this notebook for NaNoWriMo 2009 today. The leather for the binding was a leftover trial of a design in silver foil, which was part of a commission I did this summer. I liked the effect of the silver foil looking like a really old mirror, but the motif design was not mine. I am pleased with the way my solution has turned out. The jigsaw pieces represent each 10k goal during nanowrimo and the puzzle of the unwritten novel. The motto tooled onto the pieces reads ‘cacoethes scribendi’, which roughly translated from the latin means an incurable itch/urge to write. I’m looking forward to using it. It’s a soft back binding, to reduce bulk in pockets.
The bunnies are old friends of the family, all made by me too. The brown one was spun by me also. He’s rare breed Manx, wearing a Border Leicester sweater.
the shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure.
One of my favourite writers is due to host a workshop in my local library this week.
I thought I would like to go.
But then I had a horrible thought.
What if I thought he was a prat?
What if I found his voice grating?
What if I just didn’t like the way he walked?
That would spoil his fiction and poetry forever.
I’d never be able to read another line of his without being reminded.
It’s so silly, I know.
What a wasted opportunity, the reasonable me tells myself.
But still. I can’t help it. Books shouldn’t be confused with personalities.
