If you don’t know by now, Judy is constantly “on the prowl” for ways to doodle, experiment and as she says . . . “creatively procrastinate”. She made blobs of watercolor, “found” faces and blobbed on hair. Hopefully she wasn’t creating portraits of her friends . . . like me. Peggy Introducing the Blob family […]
Interestingly, the last observation reveals what the very best novelists understand – it isn’t what happens to a character, it’s how those incidents impact the character and how she changes or reacts. Even if they don’t end up happy.
Also, the very best novels nearly always have some levity.
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Sharon,
So true. The best novels teach us about life as they captivate and entertain us.
Peggy
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