Pooh Fuzzy Friends
How would I turn one of my drawings into a fuzzy poster and make x-tra money?? Get in touch w/ the company?
MY DRAWINGS RANGE FROM WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS TO SCOOBY-DOO AND MICKEY AND FRIENDS, BUT MY FAVORITES ARE MY FLOWERS I DRAW THAT WOULD MAKE GREAT FUZZY POSTERS FOR ALL AGES, I JUST DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THAT POSSIBLE... I ALSO MAKE PERSONALIZED SEARCH WORD PUZZLES THAT I WOULD LOVE TO BEABLE TO SELL.AGAIN, NOT SURE WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFO.???
you will need a good scanner and then something like photoshop
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Winnie The Pooh Theme
If You're not Writing, Blame Your Boss
Your boss hates you. He stands over your shoulder, huffing like an asthmatic water buffalo over every word you type. He's fat and bald and smells of a day old Reuben sandwich and stale gas station coffee. He wouldn't have a good thing to say about a birthday card from his own mother. "Schlock," he croaks as you hold down the delete key. Okay, you start again. "Humph! A fifth grader could've written that," he grouses while clearing his throat of something bad. You start to wish you'd never taken this job. Why did you ever want to become a writer in the first place? If he makes one more comment you're going to quit. You start another sentence, and…
"Hack."
That's it! You do what you should have done an hour ago: you get up and storm out, straight down to the kitchen to make a sandwich. PB&J and The Young and the Restless, that's going to be your afternoon. You're done writing for the day. Internal editor 1, frustrated writer 0.
Why do we work for this guy? There's no point; we can't please him. Yet we never object to his presence when we're trying to write. Not only do we continue to work for him but we take to heart every criticism, dutifully deleting line after line the moment he suggests our writing might be a little south of competent. So why do we let him hang around? How can we get rid of him?
First of all, we need to start claiming responsibility for our own lack of productivity. I hate the whole idea of the internal editor—more to the point, I hate the idea of personifying the negative mental state which prevents us from writing. If we can blame our inability to write on some imaginary entity then it's that much easier to convince ourselves we are just victims of circumstance beyond our control. It's cute, and it's ever so dramatic to bemoan our writer's block to friends and acquaintances who marvel over the creative process.
Balderdash!
We can't get anything written because our words aren't effortlessly tumbling across the screen to form something like a Faulkner masterpiece. We can't write because we think it looks amateurish to begin our first sentence with the word ‘The', or because we don't know our topic well enough, or simply because the sun's shining and we'd rather be doing something more fun. We aren't writing because writing is hard some days, and when the going gets tough we take a nap. There may be hundreds of reasons why we spend hours typing and deleting, typing and deleting, but rest assured it's not because some figment of our imagination—the psycho Lou Grant—is standing over our shoulder, breathing sour air down our shirt collars. That image is nothing but a misuse of creativity.
Second, if we must personify this negative state of mind (we are writers after all, so we tend to make things up), we need to stop dignifying the harbinger of creative constipation by giving him such a respectable name. Internal editor? Please! Editors serve a valuable purpose. Every day, editors are faced with the arduous task of punching up bad-to-fair writing so that it's fit for publication. Why do you think there are so many type-o's in blog posts? It's not because the authors are bad writers or are necessarily careless, it's because blogging eschews the editorial process. Editors are there to teach, direct, and yes sometimes correct writers, not to criticize and mock every word like that motherpuncher over your shoulder. That imposter? His name is not internal editor. His name may be self loathing, or negative reinforcement, or defeatist attitude, or fear, but he is no editor! Start recognizing him for what he really is.
Margaret Moore wrote an excellent blog for Psychology Today on how to respond to negative self-talk with conscious recognition of the problem and positive affirmations. Moore creates a checklist of seven strategies which include keeping track of your negative thoughts in a notebook, examining the feelings beneath the negative thoughts to locate the real source of the block, and simply telling the voice in your head to "shut up!" (Margaret is a lot more polite than I am; she suggests you just tell the thoughts to "Stop.")
Based on Margaret Moore's seven point checklist, here is my own abbreviated list of actions to take the next time your boss tries to interrupt your work:
- Imagine your boss as something less intimidating. I don't know about your boss, but mine is a two-hundred-eighty pound meat-stack with hairy knuckles and the disposition of a cornered skunk. Assuming yours is similar, what if you turned him into Winnie the Pooh? He would start saying things like: "Oh, fiddley-diddley-foo, this writing will never do!" A comment like that isn't likely to force your index finger to the delete key, in fact it might bring a smile to your face as you continue writing.
- Fire him! He's Winnie the Pooh, for the love of Mike! He's a two-foot-tall stuffed animal with a plump belly, stumpy limbs and no fingers. The next time he starts acting up, grab him by the scruff of his fuzzy neck and, as he's screaming for Christopher Robin and Eeyore to come to his aid, kick him right in the seat of his Disney trademark and right out the door. Shut the door, sit down, and start writing again. "Oh, bother."
- If you're going to go to the trouble of imagining your internal editor as Winnie the Pooh, why don't you imagine an ash can, a bottle of lighter fluid, and a box of matches? You're the one creating this imaginary pain-in-the-neck anyway, so why put a limit on your own creativity?
- You could write about him, as I've done here. It may not be what you want to write, but it's a heck of a lot of fun.
The point is to get rid of him, he isn't real. And so what if you write badly for a few sentences, paragraphs, or even pages? You'll find your groove if you keep at it, but you'll never get anything accomplished if you continue to listen to that willy, nilly, silly ‘ol bear. Keep writing, resisting the urge to hit the delete key and when you're finished, go back and clean it up. Give it another once-over and then send it off to be judged by a real editor, not the charlatan that lives in your head.
About the Author
Tom Cholewa is a managing editor at a digital media firm in Western New York. Find more tips and resources for overcoming writer's block at Tom's blog, Vacuuming the Cat.
Read Margaret Moore's in Psychology Today, 7 Ways to Leave Negative Self-Talk Behind.
