Ask the Author: Ichabod Temperance
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Ichabod Temperance
I'm filling out a silly author questionnaire.
Oh, wait, you meant what book am I working on.
This will be my ninth book, 'A Journey of Temperance'. In it, Miss Plumtartt and I discover a hidden world filled with incredible creatures. Oh my Goodness, if we don't fulfil this ridiculous quest, both this world and ours are in for bad trouble!
Oh, wait, you meant what book am I working on.
This will be my ninth book, 'A Journey of Temperance'. In it, Miss Plumtartt and I discover a hidden world filled with incredible creatures. Oh my Goodness, if we don't fulfil this ridiculous quest, both this world and ours are in for bad trouble!
Ichabod Temperance
Well you see, what happened was, our friend, President Samuel Clemens, invited Miss Plumtartt and me on a steamship visit to the Russias. While we were there, Tsar Knucklaus and Tsarina Spaundexandra invited us to the circus. Well what do you know, the circus animals went on a rampage! Our grandstand collapsed and I got knocked loopy. When I came around again, instead of it being the year 1877 like it ought to be, I am in the Dark Ages! A feller in highly polished armour took me prisoner. He took me to his leader who turned out to be King Arthur! Imagine that, a gifted Alabama tinker in the company of King Arthur. You might think an accomplished inventor like myself would do all right in Camelot, but there are lots of mean magicians and gnarly knights who want to snuff me out. Gosh, if I ain't careful, all of Western Civilisation might not ever come to be!
Ichabod Temperance
Learn to deal with hunger.
Ichabod Temperance
The best thing about being a writer is sitting down!
-I don't have to tote heavy shingles up to the roof.
-No smashing my fingers with a hammer.
-No shoveling sh@t.
You can write indoors! I don't have to work outside when it is raining, or freezing, or blistering hot!
-I don't have to tote heavy shingles up to the roof.
-No smashing my fingers with a hammer.
-No shoveling sh@t.
You can write indoors! I don't have to work outside when it is raining, or freezing, or blistering hot!
Ichabod Temperance
Writer's block?
Do you mean like a slate or blackboard?
Oh, wait, I know what you mean. I use a desk as my writing block.
Hunh?
Oh.
Miss Plumtartt says you are speaking of an obstacle to one's ability to write. I reckon if I ever ran into a writer's block, I would just go around it.
Hunh?
Oh.
Miss Plumtartt says I still ain't cognitizing y'alls' question properly.
Ma'am?
Oh.
Miss Plumtartt Ma'am says y'all are talking about not having an idea about what you should write. I heard tell that a writer ought to write about things he or she knows. That's why I write about the circumstances in which Isometimes find myself. I reckon when I stop running into rhino-sized prawn, Martian invaders, angry Egyptian Gods, Vampyres, Zombies, ghosts, and whatnot, I'll run out of material and then I'll leave y'all alone.
Do you mean like a slate or blackboard?
Oh, wait, I know what you mean. I use a desk as my writing block.
Hunh?
Oh.
Miss Plumtartt says you are speaking of an obstacle to one's ability to write. I reckon if I ever ran into a writer's block, I would just go around it.
Hunh?
Oh.
Miss Plumtartt says I still ain't cognitizing y'alls' question properly.
Ma'am?
Oh.
Miss Plumtartt Ma'am says y'all are talking about not having an idea about what you should write. I heard tell that a writer ought to write about things he or she knows. That's why I write about the circumstances in which Isometimes find myself. I reckon when I stop running into rhino-sized prawn, Martian invaders, angry Egyptian Gods, Vampyres, Zombies, ghosts, and whatnot, I'll run out of material and then I'll leave y'all alone.
Ichabod Temperance
Miss Persephone Plumtartt!
Golly gee whillikers, just one glance at that British bloom of perfection is enough to inspire any man to accomplish any deed!
Miss Plumtartt Ma'am is the smartest, prettiest, bravest girl there ever could be!
Sometimes I wonder who is the real hero in these books...
Golly gee whillikers, just one glance at that British bloom of perfection is enough to inspire any man to accomplish any deed!
Miss Plumtartt Ma'am is the smartest, prettiest, bravest girl there ever could be!
Sometimes I wonder who is the real hero in these books...
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