#467; In which Melanie disappoints her Grandmother

Comic Transcripts

MELANIE: Grandma, did you read the story I wrote for you?
GRANDMA: I DID, honey. It was a FAIR first draft.
But nothing of VALUE can EVER be created without SIGNIFICANT, LABORIOUS EFFORT.

GRANDMA: REVISE that story ’til it’s as GOOD as you can make it, then know that it’s STILL not good enough. You have to revise it again, and AGAIN, and AGAIN until you get SICK OF IT.
That’s how you prove you’re SERIOUS. If the process is FUN at all, you’re doing it wrong.
So, take another crack at the story, then BURN it because your first hundred stories will all be CRAP anyway.

MELANIE: But this IS my FIFTIETH draft!
I kept going back OVER it, never SATISFIED, being my own worst critic…
Then I thought, it’s SILLY to be so insecure! I’ll just SHOW it to her, she can’t just HATE IT OUTRIGHT
GRANDMA (interrupting): WRONG!

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#467; In which Melanie disappoints her Grandmother transcribed by in

MELANIE: Grandma, did you read the story I wrote for you?
GRANDMA: I DID, honey. It was a FAIR first draft.
But nothing of VALUE can EVER be created without SIGNIFICANT, LABORIOUS EFFORT.

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{{Alt-text: The story is entitled ‘A Bear and his Comically-Large Fedora Go to Disneyland: A Heavy-Handed Allegory About the War in Afghanistan’}}

#467; In which Melanie disappoints her Grandmother transcribed by in

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one, except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.