WHAT A TWIST
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AMANDA'S STORY: Cindy walked to the street. She looked both ways for cars drving past then she went to Floras house.
Flora was Cindys oldest friend. She would know how to help find the killer.
Flora made some tea from flowers and gave Cindy some chocolate cookies.
"I want to find who killed my step sister." Cindy said. She drank some tea and it was good.
Flora smiled. She looked like she had heard a really funny joke.
SELKIE: It's goods so far. Can I gives an idea?
AMANDA: What?
SELKIE: Make the Fairy Godmother the killer!
AMANDA: AAARGH! You already guessed it!
Flora was Cindys oldest friend. She would know how to help find the killer.
Flora made some tea from flowers and gave Cindy some chocolate cookies.
"I want to find who killed my step sister." Cindy said. She drank some tea and it was good.
Flora smiled. She looked like she had heard a really funny joke.
SELKIE: It's goods so far. Can I gives an idea?
AMANDA: What?
SELKIE: Make the Fairy Godmother the killer!
AMANDA: AAARGH! You already guessed it!
I almost hand wrote everyuthing in my real hadnwriting, but Ive been advised against further warcrimes.
That really does read as if it were written by a child who was bright but not skilled. The ‘looking both ways’ bit is a good touch.
I remember a cartoon that heavily lampshaded that sort of safety manners: In one episode, the kid protagonist(s) got spooked and ran for their lives – but when coming to a road, stopped to look both ways before crossing it – and then resumed running again.
And I think that was brilliant: teaching kids to be cautious in traffic, while also making fun of itself.
Sometimes the more alike you are to a person, the more conflict you have with them.
It is nice to see these two actually having moments like this.
All I can say about my handwriting is it’s a really good thing the school I went to after we moved the third time in 8th grade offered typing as an alternative to passing penmanship…
I’d suggest looking up some handwritten fonts. Google’s got a nice selection (check URL under my name here), but there are plenty of other freebie sites you could try to find fonts that represent each specific kid’s writing.
A thing to know about fonts: As I understand it, the visual representation of the font is pretty much free for anyone to use — meaning you can use a font in your webcomic without any issues. The thing that gets the law involved is passing along the code used to create the font. Basically, at some point someone said “Hang on, if we let people make legal restrictions to the way letters work, we’re gonna be in a HEAP of trouble” and it became a legal distinction between the look and the mechanics.
(I understand that some fonts require you to agree to a license of how to use them before you can access the code, but if you happened to mimic the appearance on your own, that’s fine. Of course, IANAL; I just find the legal distinctions interesting (and useful).)
(For clarity: The suggestion of fonts was for Dave and the comic.)
Because my handwriting was so awful, the state of Texas mandated that I type all documents from the fourth grade (age 9 for non-US residents) forward, and I was provided with a permanent workstation at a computer in my classroom. My family furnished the diskettes for me to carry my work to and from school. This was held in force even once I moved to Iowa.
And here I was all impressed that Amanda knew how to type.
In this day and age? My son types around 100 wpm.
I bet your son keyboards at 100 words per minute. Then has it come out of the printer. Since that is on notebook paper, I assumed that it was done with a typewriter.
Also remember that Amanda was raised in an orphanage, where I doubt she had access to computers and printers.
She likely has used computers at school, at least. At the school I’m at, the third graders regularly type up larger projects on computers. Access to technology does, of course, vary by school, but I’d still imagine there’s some computer time.
Also, one of the only times I can remember using a typewriter was in kindergarten where we were able to use it at play time. I probably mostly typed nonsense interspersed with the words I knew how to spell, but it was quite fun.
When I was in third grad we had to chase down a goose, pull out a flight-primary without bending it, and the cut it into a pen. And we used rusty nails to make the ink. You kids don’t know how easy you have it!
Great minds think alike. XD Heh.
I’m sorry…
*Further* warcrimes?
I’m guessing Dave means this:
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1175/
If so…Dave, your handwriting is no match for mine, or my fiancee’s. There’s a reason I type everything. And the fiancee has me sign everything, cause he’s the worse of us two.
Bippity, boppity, BANG!
Amanda writes like Hemingway…
Better than most of M. Night’s stuff.
“warcrime” – woah!
My handwriting got only labeled “criminal assault” 😉