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Super slow start today, letting the pen sit in hot water while I did some mindless scrolling. Chris has suggested I clean the pen after drawing and see if that helps, so it is also now soaking.
And a grid day with some things I would quite like to do over the weekend.
I am considering changing up my Substack again and stopping daily posts and just sharing the drawings on Notes again and then sharing the embedded Notes in a weekly post. And I also feel the Sofa Snippets are getting a bit dull (for me, but I suspect if they are getting dull for me, they will be for some others, too). But also, I feel like the daily and weekly posting is holding me back from writing bigger, standalone, pieces.
But also maybe I would like to do different kinds of weekly, or fortnightly, posts, that are more about deliberately drawing and documenting life, rather than just introspecting about it, which I feel these have become (says she, while introspecting).
I am also wondering a bit about changing the medium. Perhaps in the New Year.
I will mull it over for a bit, anyway. Perhaps my Florence trip will be an opportunity for a reset, or at least a rethink.
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I didn’t follow your Daily Ink pages until you started sending them daily—and for what it’s worth, I do enjoy seeing what you draw every day and reading your short posts. I do think sofa snippets are less interesting and would welcome instead a post now and then on topics.
I don't know how to vote as I love what you do now. But I would encourage you to use it how you want to , sorry for the non answer.i will always consume and enjoy anything you produce. Sunday or Wednesdays are the days I have more time to read long posts. But I love the joy of daily art from you so allways managed to find time