Skip the meeting. Draw some birds.
Lots of birds.
Along these lines, I also didn’t get this post out on my self-imposed Sunday deadline because my mom and daughter were in town for Thanksgiving weekend, and I want to prioritize my time with them!
As I’m planning my last few posts for the year, I’m curious: what are you working on, wondering, feeling, fretting, lamenting, and/or celebrating?
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This post was also made with typewriter/collage and includes some process info!
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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 Sam-I-Am-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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Thank you, Kelcey—Again (and again).
You made me smile (needful!) with these birds today. Since you aske, what I just finished reading was YOUR novel, LILIANE'S BALCONY. (Head's up, fans of Kelcey, she wrote this novel when her name was Kelcey Parker.) It's a fun-to-read even-though-sad, multi-voice story inspired by a real person, Liliane Kaufmann, the first occupant of FLW's architectural wonder, Fallingwater. Recommended!