Mike DeWolfe : The Daily Edition

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With the wifey's procurement of an iPod and subsequent downloading of an eBook reader, I was reminded: "Hey-- I wrote some books and even put them online!" So I signed up for SmashWords and posted the first book I did that didn't wholly make me cringe: Ragnarok . Basically, a boy-meets-total-breakdown-of-society story. Depressing, angry and set in Victoria-- kind of like me ca. 1995. I think I could have done much better and may entirely rewrite it some day, as I am currently doing in fits and starts with my first book, Scavenger of the Battle .

As a kid, I wanted to draw and write comic books. Well, I suck at drawing. I also kind of suck at writing comic books. In later years, I wanted to write movie scripts ; but that's still a work in progress. As a side effect of being a Dad, I know watch about 20hrs. of cartoons a week. Could I fuse by wish to write for the drawn world and the motion world into a wish to write for the motion world into a writing for cartoons? These blog posts would give me some help in that department: Step 1: Writing For Cartoons Step 2: Be A Cartoonist Step 3: POV Step 4: Origin of the "Cecils" Step 5: Humor and Structure Bonus #1: Scene planning for TV Bonus #2: Scene planning for TV : 30's Step 6: Spelling and Grammar Step 7: Continuity Step 8: Writing Gruntspeak