Follow Your Art

It's imperative!

(Also it sounds like Follow Your Heart!)

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Links & Thanks

For context, my last post was about how I choose New Year’s Imperatives instead of Resolutions. Thanks to all of you who shared yours! How’s it working for you?

Forget resolutions and words of the year. Choose a New Year's Imperative instead.

Deborah J. Stein

is an artist whose work I’ve admired for a long time, and yesterday was the first time I attended one of her zoom panels. Please check out this wonderful recap of the event and the inspiring panelists on her Substack.

Thanks to

Myq Kaplan

for recommending Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity. (Guys! Myq is my Substack pal who I got to meet in person when I attended his comedy show in Indianapolis last month! You should all go see him, or at least subscribe to his Arty Har-Hars Substack.)

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Thanks for reading The Habit of Art by Kelcey Ervick, a Substack Featured Publication (twice!). I love writing and drawing these posts and am grateful to everyone who follows along. I’m a writer and professor in Indiana. If you like this newsletter, you might like my graphic memoir, The Keeper, which was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s Holiday Gift Guide and is 40% off at the place that rhymes with Hot-damn-a-zon. I edited a book on making comics and visual stories, which you can find here: The Field Guide to Graphic Literature (or here). I have other books too! Thanks for again for being here.

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