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A Substack Friends Zine
because you're all pretty amazing
Feb 8
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Sharpen your axes, artists!
We've got trees to cut and fascism to fight.
Feb 1
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Think Small to Go Big
And a visit from some opinionated animals
Jan 11
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A Woman Reading
Jun 29, 2024
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Forget resolutions and words of the year. Choose a New Year's Imperative instead.
Dec 29, 2024
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How I create my illustrated stories
Jul 19, 2024
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On being your own WHY
Mar 31, 2024
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How I Started Making Visual Stories
Oct 13, 2024
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Scene Magic: A scene-writing exercise in 20 questions
Jun 9, 2024
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Recent posts
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Define your New Year's...Era
Save your year from the fate of Ophelia.
Jan 1
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My latest creative meltdown
A story in 5 acts
Dec 14, 2025
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Trying to write about my ancestors
And trying not to miss the point
Dec 8, 2025
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Finding stories in family photos
Or how I started writing about my great-grandmother
Nov 23, 2025
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The Creative Life
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Think Small to Go Big
And a visit from some opinionated animals
Jan 11
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Kelcey Ervick
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My latest creative meltdown
A story in 5 acts
Dec 14, 2025
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Kelcey Ervick
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Ghost Projects that haunt us
What to do with our unfinished, unmarketable, neglected projects
Aug 17, 2025
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Literary lessons from Ireland
And the postcards I drew and sent!
Aug 3, 2025
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On Teaching
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Letter to my Graphic Storytelling Class
10 thoughts as we head to next week's final deadline
Jul 27, 2025
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Finding our Inner Stories
With deadlines, community, and the sudden emergence of Coach K
Jun 22, 2025
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Making art when the conditions are impossible
In which I'm inspired by my students again
Apr 20, 2025
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Have *I* been replaced by *AI*?
Obvs. But now what?
Jan 26, 2025
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Books, Artists, Writers
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's self-doubt, terrible titles, and pre-pub anxiety over The Great Gatsby
Not to mention his "dozens of bad habits"
Nov 2, 2025
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Used bookstores are magic portals
And the books are in charge
Oct 19, 2025
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Why I wrote letters to a dead author
And why you should too
Aug 31, 2025
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A Woman Reading
vs A Man Powerwashing
Jun 29, 2024
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Process & Habits
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A Substack Friends Zine
because you're all pretty amazing
Feb 8
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Kelcey Ervick
137
60
5
Trying to write about my ancestors
And trying not to miss the point
Dec 8, 2025
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Kelcey Ervick
108
52
9
Finding stories in family photos
Or how I started writing about my great-grandmother
Nov 23, 2025
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Kelcey Ervick
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The girl who holds the world
A fairytale in office supplies
Nov 16, 2025
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Kelcey Ervick
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