On Instagram, I follow this guy I used to work with because he always has interesting photos and writing excerpts that he finds across the Internet and shares in his stories. There was one the other day that I REALLY liked, but trying to identify its origin or creator became problematic. I decided not to share it here because I can’t be sure of its correct attribution. Though I can’t show you what inspired me, it’s the reason I began to imagine what would happen if my characters left their pages to give me guidance and encouragement. Here’s how that looked for me (this is only the second page I’ve added to my coloring pages collection book in January, because the magical unicorns remain in their original book).
The background book drawing that I colored was a free download from Super Coloring. The male silhouette group was a free download from Frepik. The female silhouette group was a free download from Vecteezy. I’m grateful for creators who are generous with this kind of content and ask only for credit.
I copied and pasted actual text excerpts from several of the Saga novels to apply to the silhouettes. I don’t know which characters they’re supposed to be–well, maybe one of them, but the story that matches him hasn’t even been written yet–maybe it’ll show up in the eighth or ninth book. All the words are mine, so I only have to credit myself.
This became a good diversion today after I did a bunch of household stuff and dog stuff, ate a decent midday meal, had a shower, etc. (In another Instagram account I follow, periodically the content creator asks in her reels, Have you eaten today? Drunk your water? Taken your medications? It’s actually quite helpful sometimes to keep me on track!)
This post is my method of asking my characters to work their particular brand of magic and get me back to writing, please.
Should i be able to ID them by the text?????
Do we need a face to face chat to get them energized?
Nope, text is utterly random. If I were guessing, I’d think the bottom row COULD be DFS, LC, MA, and the top row, either woman could be MH, or one might be KdR, and who’s in the middle is up for grabs. OR top row could be MH, DFS, LC, and bottom row could be BW, ??, and still MA. Pretty sure there are no cowboys there, though.