A Few Words About "Snot Girl and Booger Boy"

Snot Girl and Booger Boy started back in the mid-1990s when my friend Tony Doolin and I were coming up with ideas for some animated series we were shopping to Nickelodeon and MTV networks. We had a pretty good reception, had an agent, and took meetings with Nickelodeon in New York and Klasky Csupo (the studio behind Rugrats, Duckman, and Tracy Ullman Show-era The Simpsons). We even won a screenwriting award at the International Animation Festival. Fast forward 30 years, and life redirected our energies toward, um, actually making a living in other areas.

In an effort to focus on things other than earning a living, I started posting some of my backlog of fiction last year, and, running out of backlog, I decided to dust off the idea of Snot Girl and Booger Boy and turn it into a story serial.

A long time ago, I read somewhere that one of the best ways to write is to let the characters guide you. I'm doing just that with Snot Girl and Booger Boy. No outlines, just a vague idea of who the characters are and where I want them to end up. The problem is, sometimes the twins, Eleanor and Theodore, and their parents, Robert and Marjorie, have minds of their own and send the story in directions I haven't considered. The other problem is sometimes I just don't feel like listening to them, or writing at all.

That's where I am this week. It's the twins' first day of first grade, and Mother's first day at a new job. I got about two paragraphs in, and that's it.

So, if you've actually been reading their story so far, I'm sorry, but Chapter 6: First Daze won't be coming until next Saturday or Sunday.

Mahalo.

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