In the latest newsletter I wrote about how I made these collages, weaving personal meaning into your art, and what Hershey’s calls the paper flags in the Kisses. Read it here.
30 day challenges
You can get downloadable, printable PDFs of these posters (and other 28, 29, 31, and 100 day variants) in yesterday’s free-for-everybody newsletter.
How to judge a book by its cover
My son’s 4th grade teacher asked me to come speak about publishing and book design. To try to show the class that “all publishing is self-publishing” and books are just fancy zines, I spent a good portion of my Saturday making a batch of zines for them:
You can read the whole thing in my newsletter.
Comfort work
In last Tuesday’s newsletter, I wrote about “Comfort Work”:
We talk about “comfort food” and “comfort viewing” but I’ve never heard anybody talk about “comfort work.”
Comfort work is work that I do when I don’t know what else to do.
I know I need to work, but I don’t know what I should be working on, or I can’t work on the thing I should be working on because I’m too tired or depressed or otherwise unmotivated.
Comfort work must be comforting and it must be actual work. This sounds simple, but it’s an odd combination. Comfort work is work I’ve done before that I know I can do, but it still must present enough of a challenge to be considered actual work.
Readers filled the comments with their own forms of comfort work. Read more in the newsletter.
The past few weeks
Everyone in our house is healthy at the moment, and for that I am grateful, but I can’t remember a month with more cosmic nonsense and petty frustrations. Good grief.
Having to write a Tuesday and Friday newsletter brings some order to my life when everything else is chaos. We had a truly epic “tell me something good” thread and I recently wrote about re-watching The Wizard of Oz and my favorite summer reads.
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