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Roxanne's avatar

I love everything about this, all your 'lines.'

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Lena Moses-Schmitt's avatar

thanks Roxanne <3

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Teresa Wong's avatar

I appreciated this post, and I love all the wrought iron sketches!

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Carolyn Supinka's avatar

YES. Thanks for this beautiful reflection on the power of process, in writing and life.

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Lena Moses-Schmitt's avatar

thank you Carolyn!

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Emily Kramer's avatar

Good god this is beautiful!!! As usual so many process questions: when did you do these drawings? Did you write this piece at the same time? Did you format it using any kind of software? Can you make this a book? How did this come together IN YOUR BRAIN? I loved this thank you!!! (I also love Claude…but know it’s an illusion).

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Lena Moses-Schmitt's avatar

lolll thank you Emily! To attempt to answer a few of these questions....for something like this I generally write a rough draft first in a Word doc, and as I write the text, I tend to get ideas for the images (and make notes about the images underneath each line of text...I guess kind of like stage directions??) Then I start actually drawing, at which point the language/writing/entire idea inevitably changes as I go along. I do everything physically on paper, scan it all in, and then clean up the images/adjust a few things here and there in Procreate on my iPad <3 anyway thank you again im glad you liked it!!

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Emily Kramer's avatar

WOW! THANK YOU!

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