You Can Thank Melanie Langford.
Before I get back to the Rights of a Child and the serious matters of life, I have a personal need to discuss some lighter issues. Turn my brain to some fun with smiles and laughter to let off my bow string. I’ll throw in the serious crumb…but for the next little while, I’d like to turn to the youth.
Some of you know I write books, have been a cartoonist for 25+ years and still work on the Wanted Hero story. There’s some interesting and fun background stories, such as earning the money to start the company by a single pull of a slot-machine in Nevada and having such a clear vision of aspects of the story that people who entered the room with me writing actually heard the characters talking (hmmm, not sure I want to get into that one). The focus was always kids. Make them laugh, show them hope, tell them the truth and most of all, entertain them. That included teaching them how to make their own dreams of creation come true.
Writersoup's Lafe Langford
I had a very delightful talk with a lovely young lady, a daughter of a friend of mine: Lafe Langford. He lives in Mexico and is an extremely talented writer (I recommend you stop by and check out his blog, especially “The Abyss”). His daughter, Melanie is an artist.
Oh, she says it’s just a hobby, but she’s got talent. That’s right Melanie, cats out of the bag. Self taught. Does it for fun. IMO, the best motivations out there. Melanie is one of my favorite types of people: she asked for pointers. (goody-goody I get to help somebody!!)
Well back in the day, WantedHero.com had a message board with 29,000+ registered users and over 12,000 of those kids got lessons from me each week on “eComics”. It got hacked by the evil pornosquad (may you all burn in the hottest hell), so I deleted 2 years of work and progression rather than letting kids see that crap (I didn’t know how to fix it–and I was the only techy).
I would like to post some lessons I shared back then (dug them up for Melanie) and give them to anyone interested, updated with new insights and comments. If you have something to say, please leave a comment for all to learn from and I will respond promptly during the week.
So, you can all thank Melanie Langford for the following posts…
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