How to reconnect with joy in the creative process
An Analog Newsletter!
I wrote about how to make an analog newsletter here. I wanted to experiment with sending an image-only newsletter (I am fighting with all of my strength not to add a big chunk of text here at the end!!!), and I’m wondering, how did it land for you? Would you like to see more newsletters in this format? Let me know in the comments :-)
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I love hand-written stuff. The reader can't skim over it; they have to engage with it in a deeper way. The writer, on the other hand, will focus on the most important things they want to communicate, out of practical reasons and the effort it requires. It's a different kind of reader-writer relationship. And what I like about it the most - it's not linear.
A colleague of mine published a hand-written piece about writing per hand, in an academic edited book I'm also a part of, and I love her for it: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781529244892/ch016.xml
(of course, the publisher had tons of problems with publishing it (it didn't fit the STANDARD), which makes the PDF-version very bad, but here you can find it in high-resolution that is a pleasure to read: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/revisiting-reflexivity/additional-content/chapter-16)
I loved it! One thought, we have to scroll it based on the size so consider the scrolling experience -- this scrolling experience was great! It reminds me of crankies in that way.