Character Architect Gifts

Writing the generations/Bring characters to life.

"Your tax return reads like one of your novels."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Mayhem, Inc. Part 1: Prologue

Lego Haircut

"Yes, Jane Lyons, sitting next to Katy Jones, class of 2018, it is important for a writer to know her audience."

"Apparently, when the tide came in, a lot of castles went bust."

Child makes a toy and frightens himself.

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."

Building giant sand pies.

"If you saw a book with the title 'An American Speaks Out,' would you buy it?"

'I think you should seek treatment for that Lego block obsession of yours!'

'How about having at least one character who's alive and wearing clothes?'

Christopher Isherwood

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"Your tea party numbers are way down this month Jerry."

'It's not so much the distance to your proposed house site, but that I'm not familiar with your planet's building codes.'

"My buildings are meant to inspire."

"Writer's block?"

Books Providing Bright Idea

House of books.

Book publisher telling author about some changes needed.

Witch Hardware

Modern Parents

"Now all we need is a good script."

'I think you're ready for the big chair...'

Writer's Block Party

'It's a self-build.'

"My next book? It will probably be about rising up and crushing humanity."

"The first three chapters read like they were written by some guy on a couch."

"I'm a home-tech specialist. Your daughter called us. I'm here to convert her doll house into a smart doll house."

"After several chapters of pushing a boulder up a hill over and over again, I think your average reader will watn to see something else happen, Mr. Sisyphus."

What brings you to therapy, Rudy? Dr. Noodle. I've been feeling like my whole life is on pause. And I can't find the remote to unpause it. Meanwhile, everyone else's stories are proceeding apace. They're all into the second act already. They've all had plot twists, and hero's journeys, and epic love scenes, and thrilling reversals of fortune ... Meanwhile, I'm still paused on the opening credits because no remote. Why don't you get up off the couch and unpause it manually? You can do that?