Amy, I love your newsletters as they are full of all the things I love (books, art, interesting and fun content, connection, and inspiration). I especially enjoyed this issue with instructions and inspiration for creating collages! Thanks for taking the time to put this together for your readers. I LOVED it!
Happy New Year Amy! I love your collages and their origin story. Collage is one of the areas I want to explore this year. In fact I got myself a pot of PVA glue earlier this week in preparation! I’ll certainly revisit this newsletter for inspiration, thank you.
I love everything about this! I’m a collagist myself, as well as a flash fiction writer, but hadn’t thought of using research bits as a collage inspiration. Although, I did create images to illustrate a few pieces in my forthcoming collection of flash fiction, so… not research, but related? 😅
Amy this is a glorious temptation to fall back in time and putter with materials that have a personal connection. We can rearrange our life! Great writing and a visual nudge to make something
I'm so glad you think so! I think collage can be very rewarding, and it was a lot more satisfying for me once I figured out a few basic principles for making a pleasing design. I would love it if somebody else got inspired to give it a try.
Thanks Ellen! All the pictures in the newsletter are my collages. If they didn’t show up in your inbox, you might try clicking the link to view online (usually at the top of the email)
That did the trick, thanks. In the email version, each collage was just a teeny-tiny question mark, but when I viewed online I could see them all. I should have known you wouldn't tease us like that!
Yes, sometimes we have settings in our email program that tells it not to load images, or not to load images over a certain size. I'm glad the online version worked!
Amy, this is absolutely lovely. Since reading the book I've been very curious about how you did the research for it. 🙌
Thanks! The research was the fun part, as you can imagine.
Fabulous!!
Love, love, love this
Thanks so much!
Amy, I love your newsletters as they are full of all the things I love (books, art, interesting and fun content, connection, and inspiration). I especially enjoyed this issue with instructions and inspiration for creating collages! Thanks for taking the time to put this together for your readers. I LOVED it!
Thanks so much!
Ah ha!! What a fantastic idea and worthy of sharing to friends who enjoy research, do crafts, or write. Thanks!
This is a great idea. I am working on a novel / PhD project and I could use this as a form of tangible motivation.
I, too, love making collages! Thank you for reminding me. I think they're fascinating!
Happy New Year Amy! I love your collages and their origin story. Collage is one of the areas I want to explore this year. In fact I got myself a pot of PVA glue earlier this week in preparation! I’ll certainly revisit this newsletter for inspiration, thank you.
What a great idea—and a fun post! Thanks.
Your collages look great. I love all the books that you have written, from Bad Bugs to Miss Kopp.
Wow, just wow. Such a non-drudge, creative, inspiring way to think about -- and then execute -- researching stuff. Off to the races!
I love everything about this! I’m a collagist myself, as well as a flash fiction writer, but hadn’t thought of using research bits as a collage inspiration. Although, I did create images to illustrate a few pieces in my forthcoming collection of flash fiction, so… not research, but related? 😅
Hope to run into you at AWP in March!
Amy this is a glorious temptation to fall back in time and putter with materials that have a personal connection. We can rearrange our life! Great writing and a visual nudge to make something
I'm so glad you think so! I think collage can be very rewarding, and it was a lot more satisfying for me once I figured out a few basic principles for making a pleasing design. I would love it if somebody else got inspired to give it a try.
After reading all of this I am DYING to see one of your collages! Please share.
Thanks Ellen! All the pictures in the newsletter are my collages. If they didn’t show up in your inbox, you might try clicking the link to view online (usually at the top of the email)
That did the trick, thanks. In the email version, each collage was just a teeny-tiny question mark, but when I viewed online I could see them all. I should have known you wouldn't tease us like that!
Yes, sometimes we have settings in our email program that tells it not to load images, or not to load images over a certain size. I'm glad the online version worked!