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Emily Kaminsky's avatar

Loved all of this. But black to mango yellow and back. Delicious! Also second time I've heard of the Several Short Sentences book. Will check it out!

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Emily Kaminsky's avatar

Oh, and the Subtitle. Epic. Reheating Stale Takes.

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Justus's avatar

haha! I'm digging into old drafts from 4 years ago, hard to get much more stale than that. Crazy to think that these were written coming out of the pandemic soon after 1/6.

And yes, Verlyn Klinkenborg's book is great, well worth checking out.

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Sue Cauhape's avatar

When you're writing the close lines for the background cursive for some of these, are you writing something specific or is it just jibberish? They're an interesting backdrop for the main text of the graphic. What's more, they're not really that distracting. It's interesting how that works.

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Justus's avatar

Thanks! The words are real, usually picked out from random podcasts or YouTube videos, but often with a focus on letters I might want to practice. That said straight up repetive practice doesn’t do it for me. I like seeing the letters in the context of a (at least) plausible word.

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