Of Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax (July, 2022)
If you haven’t done my subscriber survey yet I still have a few postcards I’m sending out to folks who take the time to answer. 😘
I was going to do a ramble podcast this month, but it’s blazing outside. 🔥 Even if the window box cooled down the studio enough to be tolerable the it would be way too loud. So here we are with a boring text update. 🙄
I don’t have any process photos so I will supplement accordingly with GIFS. (You may have to click through to the browser or app to see them in motion. I haven’t quite figured that out yet.)
Just a reminder that my Ecosystem book is intentionally on hold until Davy goes back to school. (I feel like I have to say this every time so I don’t look distracted and irresponsible.)
Because that is in the final stages I need complete silence to focus on the details before ordering the last proof.
My summer project has been preparing a Neurodiversity presentation for Davy’s school. Alongside my reading and research I’m working on a visual metaphor for overstimulation which will probably also become an art piece.
More on that next month. It involves a glass fish bowl, a remote control turn table, alcohol ink, and a massive bag of marbles.
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I also dabbled in some AI art on Midjourney, but I’m writing a whole post about that next month.
Meanwhile I’ve had a lot of questions from you guys about neurodiversity so I’m trying to figure out how best to share what I’m learning with you. I’m making notes and, y’all …
I think it’s another book.
BUT I want to share my writing bit by bit and then stitch it together into book form. I think I’m going to announce the details for that project on Monday.
I kind of wrote Discover Your Creative Ecosystem this way, but I didn’t know it was a book. 😂
I was writing creative coaching emails and sending them out each week. Those became the bones of the book, and then underwent quite heavy editing to turn it into what it is now.
(I think I‘ve ideated one more chapter this summer if I can squeeze it in!)
Maybe I’m discovering my writing process. Sharing my first draft in this way helps me focus on incremental progress and won’t let me get stuck editing the same bit over and over.
I didn’t do this with my creative motherhood book, and that’s why it’s not done. I need to revisit that manuscript this autumn with toddler mum eyes, but I hope to finish it within the next year.
Ok, that’s all from me this month! (Besides Substack, which I batched in June and I’m really enjoying.)
What about you? How is your summer going?
Cheers,
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