Discuss: Roadkill: How to Make a Great First Impression

Fantastic!
Comical and clever, I never would’ve thought to make a drawing of roadkill but now that I think of it, it’s shocking and somewhat moving staring into the glazed eyes of a dead deer.
  The public’s response reminds me of the Ray Bradbury story “The Pedestrian”.

Wow, this is great! I love squirrels, and I love creative nonfiction, and whenever they meet I get really excited.

Every week on my blog I feature some squirrel related art. This week I featured this essay and the imprint of the roadkill.

This reminds me of tropical holiday cards I once made with a squirrel fish in the Bahamas.  The fish once caught, had been discarded; but I found it immediately, inked it, and while remembering the sadness of it’s death, thinking yet how impressive were the prints, and the detail that that fish provided. Later, it was consumed by a gull, after I washed away the water soluble ink.

Some years ago I had two girls win the science fair with their roadkill data, pictures were the grabber. The whole class was involved in bringing in data, kind of animal, location, date and a column for unrecognizable. They gathered info from town, from road trips as I did also. It became a type of mini-obsession for several years, a notebook in the glovebox, adding up the similar animals, watching the roadkill species change on drives from Texas to Canada.

It’s harder to start a career in freelance editing than it is to transition to one after working for an established editor first. You’ll probably have the most success if you first hire on at a publishing house, then after a year or two go freelance, taking as many clients as you can with you