I’ve long dreamed of writing and illustrating a book. The title of my book, Sleepwalking Through Oysterville, came to me in a flash in the early 1990s when my now husband and I were living in St. Petersburg, Florida. Yesterday afternoon I finished the drawing you see here which I feel intuitively has a strong connection to Sleepwalking Through Oysterville. Following up on this sign, I’ll pull out the crappy first draft of Sleepwalking Through Oysterville, which I wrote almost three years ago in November 2021 during National Novel Writing Month, and read it from beginning to end. Do not be afraid.
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“Rhapsody in Blue” and “An American in Paris”
whilst making this drawing.