There are no Write-By-Numbers kits …

Courtney M. Wendleton:

Color outside the lines!

Originally posted on Books: Publishing, Reading, Writing:

When I was a kid, we spent our summers at the family cottage, north of Toronto. Two entire months to amuse ourselves ��� preferably, according to my mother, out-of-doors. But there were often rainy days we���d be forced to spend inside, and one of the ���hobbies��� I got into was Paint-By-Numbers. My parents would buy a kit and I���d create a work of art (in my mother���s eyes only, of course) that would then be framed to hang on a nail. But eventually, over the years, that painting would either fall behind the furniture, or be replaced by a genuine work of art. I prided myself on those ���paintings��� because I managed to keep inside the lines and always used the recommended colours of paint.

So much for encouraging any creativity or originality.

Now that I���m writing and publishing, I���m very glad that no one has ever come up with���

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