Tatto For You

Well-a-day to you all and welcome to a new week and the proper beginning of my intent to regularly post the continuing tale of Economous Musgrove,  illustrator, some-time concometrist and would-be fabulist, and    citizen of Brandenbrass. It must be said that I cannot promise that this will succeed as a story, but I am willing to try if your are willing to go with me come what may.  Either way, let us get on with part 3 ... Economous musgrove         © D.M.Cornish PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION Chapter 1, part 3 Breathing deeply of the tepid leafy perfume of the wooded park, he heaved a long sigh seeking to expel his fretting with that great exhalation. Curling and uncurling his bare toes in the grasses kept cropped and neat by many rabbit mouths, he allowed himself to bask for a beat or two of his humours in the dapple of sunlight touching his face as the day orb reached the acme of its meridian. Ringed about by hawthorn...

Here we are with the next instalment of Economous Musgrove - a Half-Continent tale, that I hope to be releasing with regular frequency. What do folks think: twice weekly? Once? Thrice?  Thank you everyone for your encouragements, I shall press on and let the cross-fertilisation go on. Economous musgrove         © D.M.Cornish PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION Chapter 1, part 2 His most recent employment at a grand gala held a month past by the Duchess-in-waiting of Naimes – in which he performed the required entertainment of spedographer – hasty portraitist – he thought he had gained a reference of the truest excellence. Yet it turned that even so exulted a recommendation as that of the Branden Rose – surely one of the great lights in Brandenbrass society – actually produced opposite outcome of spoiling the interest of patrons.  “Oh, that’s not much chop,” potential customers would say with the same sour yet subtle sneer. “ She t...

I just had a crazy thought: I have an m/s that has not gone anywhere for a long while so perhaps I could share it with you all 500? 1000? words at a time. Perhaps feedback might get it moving? Perhaps it might be cool to let you all roam the Half-Continent again? It will be un-edited, first-drafty (draughty - holes in it, get it?) , and like un-spellchecked (not a real verb) but what do you think? Will the format of this blog make it too hard to read? 500 words? 1000 words? Any other problems? Benefits? Here is a sample to get things rolling and see how it works... (about 1100 words, too much?) Economous musgrove © D.M.Cornish DO NOT PUBLISH OR REPRODUCE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION 1 st Draft, June 2011-August 2013 1 ~ In the Park fabulist ~ an imagineer – a maker of images by stylus, paint, charcoal or any other medium – employed by monster-hunting teratologists to go with them upon their dangerous exploits, observe their daring and make drawings and etchings of the same to prove to saf...