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Alethia Grey – Episode 29
*PRE-ORDERS ARE NOW OPEN for the print edition of Alethia Grey!* *Click the image below to order your copy before they are gone.* In our last episode, Alethia Grey secured her own room with the power...
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Out & About With: Teslacon VI
“Creativity is one of the greatest forms of generosity.” – Mark Fairbanks Every year about this time, I enjoy reflecting on another wonderful Teslacon weekend with my steampunk family. There are many...
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Alethia Grey – Episode 30
In our last episode, Chicago detective Marie Owens arrived to take over for a chagrined Agent Morse. Get the next episode below, or read the entire comic from the beginning. To enlarge the image,...
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#NaNoWriMo is over. Now what?
If you’re like thousands of writers around the world, November is a very special month: National Novel Writing Month. But it only lasts 30 days. Fifty-thousand or more words, many late nights and lots...
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The League of Marvelosities – Chapter 2
Listen to the audio version here, or read the full text below: * No one in Clutch believed that Baroness Celine de Gauge would survive her confinement, least of all her husband Alexander. Celine was a...
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Forgiveness, or Permission? Which Will You Ask?
Read the companion post on The Power of “No” We can wait for the gatekeepers to give us permission to share our work, or we can ask forgiveness for doing it ourselves. Or maybe we don’t have to ask for...
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When Playing “What-If” Is a Healthy Exercise
Sometimes life sends us the opportunity to explore what-ifs, in ways we’d rather not experience if we have the choice. Monday afternoon I was minding my own business (literally). I’d done my work for...
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What if the world doesn’t really need our art?
All around us, we are told that our voice matters. But what happens when the planet seems to get along just fine without our contribution? Making art is hard. Okay, maybe it’s not hard if you are a...
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Like to write, but don’t like to read? Help is here.
People don’t naturally recommend an alternative to what works for them. And since the vast majority of writers seem to be the “reader writer” types, we “writer writers” are left to fend for ourselves....
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The League of Marvelosities – Chapter 3
Listen to the audio version here, or read the full text below: They christened her Miranda Alexandra Perspicacia de Gauge. Even the prelate who performed the ceremony commented that it was a very...
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DIY to Done: Scrappy Art Journal
Turn an antique stitch-bound book into a paintable, doodle-able journal for all your scrappy artistic experimentation This past year, I got back into art after a fifteen-year hiatus. At first I was...
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The Death of Expertise is the Beginning of Creativity
This past year I made a huge leap forward in my creative practice by realizing that I’m naturally improvisational. I do best, and I’m happiest, when I work off a loose theme or structure and discover...
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Word of the Year 2016
Over the past week, I’ve enjoyed watching friends unveil their “word of the year.” Today I’m sharing mine. The Scrappy Storyteller word for 2016 is . . . flourish. In 2015 I made some of the scariest...
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A very happy, scrappy 2016 to you!
Filed under: Art, Holidays, Steampunk Tagged: 2016, art, illustration, ink, New Year, New Year's, steampunk
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The Darker Side of Scrappy (and a Confession)
When words have multiple meanings, it’s important that we embrace all of them. This year, I’m determined to do just that with my favorite word: scrappy. Which means I have a confession to make . . . As...
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DIY to Done: Watercolor Journal Pages
With a few watercolor paints (even the elementary school variety!) and the pages of an old book, you can create a gorgeous scrappy background for your next art journal page. This year, I’ve taken up...
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Art of the Week: Charles MacIntosh Window
As a steampunk fan, I’ve also become fascinated with the Arts & Crafts Movement and real-life Victorian fixations with romanticized medieval culture. This fascination will likely appear in future...
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The League of Marvelosities Chapter 4
Listen to the audio version here, or read the full text below: It was lucky for little Miranda that in the earliest days of her life, she did not understand exactly what had happened at the...
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The Creative Power of Rest
The vacation I didn’t want to take forced me to realize that hibernation isn’t so bad. In fact, the bears just might be on to something . . . Total control of my time is one of the perks of my...
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Scrappy Storytellers, what should we do together?
If we are all scrappy storytellers, then how can we encourage each other to greater resourcefulness? And wouldn’t doing that actually make a difference for all of us? Over the past few months, I’ve...
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