What if... your doodle came to life and started pulling letters off the page and throwing them at you...?
Doodle Mayhem came about when I read an article about not letting your characters take over – well that just sent my imagination into overdrive, why shouldn’t a character take over? And how can you stop them anyway? I find that once a character starts to speak, they take on a life of their own, and then there’s no knowing what’s going to happen...
I knew that I really had something when I read an early draft to a group of primary school children. I was soon aware of the silence that had descended over the group, and realising I had the attention of everyone there, I was soon as immersed in the story as everyone else, as our surroundings slipped away, and we were right there with Eric, as Iver No-Idea ripped letters off the page and started throwing them at him.
The Blurb:
Eric would rather doodle than write a story, but when the words start to disappear off the page in front of him, and his doodle starts talking to him, he thinks he must be dreaming. Eric's doodle has come to life, and he's getting bored; he jumps into Miranda's story, where he gets attacked by a rubber, then he's blown off his feet when Natasha sneezes. Miss Roper is getting angrier by the second. How will Eric ever finish his story, when his doodle just wants to have fun, and create havoc?
