Let's look at some more of the edits I made between the two drafts of a chapter from my Letters From Space Camp book! For reference:
What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt today day was:
I feel embodied when...
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My agent sent me back a bundle of editorial notes on my first draft and, irritatingly, they all were spot-on and would make the story stronger 😤
For reference:
What She Knows is an art practice which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. My previous responses are collected here. The prompt this day was:
I feel held when...
I f...
2023-08-31 07:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
What She Knows is a workshop which prompts you with a daily statement and I am answering in my native language of collage. The prompt on our second day was:
I want to dress like...
I like the way I dress. My two default outfit settings are a pretty good visual summary of me as a person, I think.
2023-08-29 18:43:08 +0000 UTC
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So! I made both a lot of changes and also kept a lot of things exactly the same between my two drafts of the Day Two chapter from my Letters From Space Camp book! Let's dive in to that, eh? For reference:
My brilliant, beautiful, bootylicious friend Lucy Bellwood is running a kind of workshop (although she does not call it that) which centers on answering a question about your core beliefs and senses over the course of 100 days. It is called What She Knows. (Enrollment for this non-class is already closed, but you ...
2023-08-19 22:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Alright, alright! I'm done enough with this revised chapter of Space Camp to post it as one long read! But first...
Welding: Metal Flowers? Botanical Illustration? Classic Spanish Soups? 2023-08-16 17:06:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that we’re halfway through August, let’s catch up on all the shit I made in July!
After spending hours and hours (and hours) cutting out, sewing together, and lacing up my stays pieces (it’s sort o...
2023-08-15 01:34:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Final batch of pages!
I edited and inked the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 1-5, 2023-08-12 03:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 1-5, 2023-08-09 02:18:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. You can compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below! Catch up on the previous batches of revised pages: 1-5, 2023-07-29 03:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt gave me a glass with a faint yellow-y tinged transparent drink and a straw so of course I took a big ol' slurp from it, assuming it was a fruity-flavored water, but NO.
NO.
IT WAS NOT.
It was a canned mojito? I actually shrieked when my taste buds spiked on that weirdo fermented off-taste. I mean, it's not bad. It's actually nice! But I drink alcohol so infrequently that... mother. If my tolerance were a person, it would stand as high as my...
2023-07-24 05:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As explained in the last post, I'm editing and inking the Day Two chapter from Letters From Space Camp. For fun, compare the first draft of the chapter with these finished-ish pages below!
My last post shared some of my progress on revising the Day Two chapter of Letters From Space Camp and now I have the first batch of inked pages to share with you! For fun, you can open up the first draft of Day Tw...
2023-07-15 03:03:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt and I had a check-in with our book agent and I kinda-sorta out-of-my-ass estimated I'd be done revising the sample chapter of Space Camp in the next few months and she was like 'Great, I'll start shopping the pitch around to publishers in the fall then." which means I.................. actually have to finish revising that sample chapter now and put together the pitch package ðŸ˜...
2023-07-07 05:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I fixed our ancient curtains! ……………………………………………...or did I.
My one goal going in to Goodwill was to find a frame for this really pretty 12" x 18" print I bought at a craft fair and suspended in its flimsy plastic sleeve on my kitchen wall.
As you can see in my photo on the left, the plastic sleeve is not doing the beautiful art by Joe Wirtheim any justice. This...
2023-07-05 22:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Journey back with me, dear patron, to a time long, long ago. A time when Twitter was new and used almost exclusively to make silly jokes with your friends in 140 characters or fewer.
The year: 2012
The game: Tweet fake missed connections ads (The classic "I Saw You" set-up) that doubled as complete short stories with the hashtag #IsawU.
The tweeter:
For my 40th birthday, I flew across the country to spend it with some dear friends. At this moment I am on the return trip home, killing time until my connecting flight back home.
I had intended to write about Pride but…
I had a really good Pride. It’s the first one I’ve gone to in about 20 years. I associate Queer Spaces with identity gatekeeping and bullying so I stopped going to them after committing the cardinal sin of falling in love with a man. Hurt people hurt people,...
2023-06-28 22:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Slowly but surely I am making progress on my 18th century outfit with my Historical Costuming sewing group! Having wrapped up my strap-on pockets, I now commenced on my very first set of stays.
Commonly confused for a corset, stays actually pre-date them and are...
2023-06-23 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
You wear your favorite jeans until they are shreds.
Your body rubs away denim, fiber by fiber, until the light shines through them.
It takes years, but all through the power of your body moving and living in these jeans, rubbing against them every day, grinding them away from the inside, you wear right through them.
One day you put them on like normal and then you crouch...
2023-06-20 01:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post
"You're the only person I know who would bring an entire CURTAIN to a hot springs." -Matt, after asking me what entertainment I was going to bring on our weekend retreat two hours away in the woods.
When we moved in to our house ten years ago, the previous tenants left two long brown curtains up in the dining room wi...
2023-06-14 02:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the stuff I made and/or posted last month! I got some art, I got some essays, I gotta lotta photos, man, I got a bit of everything for you!
Here's how I made my big ol' faux-Ancient Greek pervert painting...
2023-06-07 21:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post
My senior year of high school, I took a comics class taught by Lin Lucas. His teaching was profoundly impactful on little teenage-me and it makes my heart so happy to still cross paths with him to this day in the not-so-tiny world of comics, now as peers and friends.
The following is the first long-form comic I made as my final project in his class. It's a compilation of the many real conversations my be...
2023-05-30 23:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy brassicas are flowering.
I grew them both from seed, my cabbage and kohlrabi (on the left and right, respectively). In fact, the current cabbage may have been a seed I harvested by hand from a previous cabbage that I grew some years ago. I’m not 100% sure, but I’m, like, 85% positive that it is from one of the plants I let go to seed and then collected for the next year’s crop.
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2023-05-24 05:44:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I smell like sunblock and dirt and sweat.
Well, I smell like sunblock, except for those two patches over the bottoms of my shoulder blades, where my tiny t-rex arms can't reach. They're not sun-burnt yet, but they will be if I keep this up. "This", meaning "Biking to work in a sports bra and gardening in a halter top."
When I took this picture, I couldn't see the clouds. The ra...
2023-05-19 19:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok.
Ok. Ok. Ok.
So I did the whole rough first draft of Letters From Space Camp, right? (My memoir about going through the Intensive Outpatient Program at the mental hospital in 2019)
Before my agent can pitch it to publishers, I need to actually draw up one of the chapters all nice and finished as an example of what the entire book will look like, so the Big Wigs will be...
2023-05-18 05:13:41 +0000 UTC View Post