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Danielle Corsetto was cool to tweet the link to the fan art I did for her direct to my site. Wow! Let me just tell you that the giant spike in viewers yesterday made my Google Analytics graph shoot off the scale like a 600-pound twinkie. (WTF?) It just flattened all the old stats! So if you’re checking back for more, please stay tuned. I definitely have more!

In the meantime, please click on the “True Tales” link above, because that will take you to my webcomic: Absolutely True Tales of Lesbian Drama. I’ve only been at it for a month, but I have a long yarn to spin. The comic updates on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at midnight. I also broadcast my drawing on UStream almost every night, so please stop by and say “hi”.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by, and many thanks to Danielle for retweeting my fan art. My site has never been happier!

Carpe Diem,
ellejohara

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Girls With Slingshots ©

20100125.1825 #illustration

Jamie and Hazel

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Dark Esther and The Boy ©

20100119.2015 #illustration

You belong to the darkness now, ginger.

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Farscapeorama ©

20100117.2146 #illustration

My name is Philip J. Fry, a delivery boy...

Combining two of my all-time favorite shows, I present to you: Farscapeorama.

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Dedicating an Entire Database

20100109.1515 #blog

Hey all! Don’t panic. I haven’t deleted my comics. I know all six of you are enjoying them thoroughly, so I pulled an all-nighter and put together a dedicated page for Absolutely True Tales of Lesbian Drama. Check it out at the following link:

http://ellejohara.com/truetales/

Yep! It’s right here at the same domain. I thought that might make things easier for everybody. I might expand that site depending on whether the comic takes off or not. We’ll see.

Carpe Diem,
ellejohara

(P.S. I’m pretty sure there’s more than six of you.)

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Bus Stop Blues

20091214.1741 #writing

The bus to the Daley Center was running late as it pulled up to the curb. I waited at the bus stop next to a fella leaning against the sign with his head down and looking, well, kinda blue like he’d been waiting there forever. The driver opened the door and said that I could get on, but the “blue-skinned son of a bitch” behind me would have to walk. I stepped back and let the blue fella climb aboard before me, which pissed off the driver something fierce. The driver cursed and pulled away from the curb, knowing he was already running late, as the blue fella sat down at the front of the bus and nodded at me. Hopefully that meant “thanks.”

This story was also published at Six Sentences. (Yay! Published work!)

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NaNoWriMo 2009

20091201.0032 #blog

National Novel Writing Month 2009 is officially over. This year was my first attempt at the formidable goal of writing 50,000 words in 30 days, but I’m happy to report that I accomplished it and then some. My final word count for the month was 63,933. I beat the 50k goal by a 13,933 word margin. Not bad for my first year!

I’m also happy to report that I earned myself quite a few NaNoWriMo merit badges. Though I won’t be able to purchase a set, I’m proud to say that I earned:

NaNo Socializing (Meeting with other NaNos on Halloween for a pep talk.)
Caffeine Abuse (Energy drinks, black tea, maté.)
Procrastination (This was not hard to earn.)
Word-Count Padding (Um, ah, well, you know, heh.)
NaNo Rally (5,000 words in a day)
Creative Nonfiction (Remember that time when my character did the exact same thing as me when she was 12?)
Eureka Moment (On 11/23, when I got my 5,000 word day, things finally started to come together for my novel.)
NaNo Victory (50k? Ain’t no thang!)

I’ve still got about 10,000 more words to write before I’m finally done with my rough draft. So I’ll be working on that during the first two weeks of December. I’d like to have a finished draft done and printed by December 15th, so I can proudly stick it in a three-ring binder, stuff it on my bookshelf, and forget about it until March for National Novel Editing Month.

I’ve taken the plunge and survived. Am I a writer yet? Not until my novel is published and in your hot little hands.

Carpe Diem,
el jo