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By CR Elliott on May 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Grief is a Curious Thing

Spring has been a bit of a doozy this year. My mother, who had been in decline for over a decade, passed away right before Mother’s Day. The timing was […]

By CR Elliott on May 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Scheduling Creativity

Lately I have been binging on Kate Cavanaugh‘s YouTube videos. I, like many of her recent subscribers, found her through her series of “I tried writing like…” (in my case […]

By CR Elliott on May 16, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Creating Characters

A character who gets everything they want without compromise or being compromised is usually going to be the villain of the piece or a minor, undeveloped character you never get […]

By CR Elliott on May 9, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Sketching Vs. Improvising

Whether you are a writer or an artist there’s the uniform recommendation to make an outline of your story or a sketch of your work in order to provide yourself […]

By CR Elliott on May 2, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

May Check-in

I’m going to be fully honest and say that I didn’t plan ahead for today’s post so I figured that a check-in would be a good alternative to a regularly […]

By CR Elliott on April 25, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

My Current Novel: Starting Over

As much as I’d love to emulate the success of writers who attribute their success to writing every day, rain or shine, I have stopped comparing my journey to theirs. […]

By CR Elliott on April 18, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

My Current Novel: Reading and Revising

The Starchild Series began life somewhere in The Sims 2 as I created worlds and neighborhoods. It was a pressure free environment where my mind could simply tell a story […]

By CR Elliott on April 11, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

My Current Novel: Origins

There have been three novels I have finished over the years and never managed to revise. A fact that remains vivid in my mind is that “you’re not a writer […]

By CR Elliott on April 4, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

My Easy Monthly Setup

I had actually planned this post for last week but had a bit of life happens and broke my weekly posting streak but now I’m caught up and back to […]

By CR Elliott on March 21, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Why You Should Start Journaling (if you aren’t already)

It might seem like a relic of bygone eras before blogging but journaling is a useful practice even if you don’t want to disengage from your devices.

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Experimenting with a weird limited palette.
Progress on a piece from last year. I experimented more with this piece than I have in awhile.
I've been under the weather in a variety of ways for the last month. But, today I decided to steal a little time to sketch a little.
Two very different cats.
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