RENDEZVOUS
Thursday, July 27th, 2006Here’s a weird comic I did in response to the McSweeney’s contest inspired by Dan Wiencek’s “13 Writing Prompts.”
4.
Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon.
Happily Ever After.
And in case you didn’t hear, ukuleles are all the rage.
“When you show up at a party with a guitar, it’s serious. People expect something!”
July 28th, 2006 at 1:24 am
Awesome comic, Austin, and a great solution to a prompt that I wouldn’t have been able to find a way to write about. Instead, my submission was based on this prompt:
Your main character finds a box of scorched human hair. Whose is it? How did it get there?
July 28th, 2006 at 9:28 am
ooh, that’s a good one. you should post it.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Actually, McSweeney’s will be running it, so I’ll have to wait until it’s up on their site, then I’ll link over. Did you send this to them? I can’t believe they didn’t take it.
July 28th, 2006 at 11:31 am
good for you! yeah, i sent it, but nah, i never heard from them.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:48 am
My son sent a contest entry for the McSweeney’s Lemony Snickett writing contest (he also incorporated comic panels) and never heard a word of encouragement or response either. Way to crush a 10-year-old’s ideas that he might be able to write well.
I liked your response to the writing prompts much better than the cosmonaut bit they picked.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:00 am
thanks, encouraging. i’ve never had a good experience with mcsweeneys, but i wonder if maybe they just are so swamped with entries they can’t always be encouraging! (they did choose matt’s entry, though, so they can’ t be all bad…)