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WIWD Archive: The Joyful Jellyfish
We can get so caught up in being sensible and serious 'grown-ups', with serious jobs, reading serious things, doing serious stuff, that we can sometimes…
Mar 24
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Failing as a Full Time Creative
It’s OK not to be a full time creative. It’s OK not to earn a living from your artwork. It’s OK if your creativity doesn’t pay the bills. Of course it's…
Mar 10
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February 2024
What happened to you Instagram?
You used to be cool. We used to be friends.
Feb 25
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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Moments and Memories
There are moments and memories, stories and songs between the blades of grass and on the underside of the leaves, inside the flowers and dancing in the…
Feb 11
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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While I Was Drawing
I got lost. Between one pencil stroke and the next.
Feb 2
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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January 2024
Not An Anniversary Letter
No graphs or subscriber growth tips, no numbers or charts or advice. Just a celebration, some thoughts, some words and some pictures.
Jan 28
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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Not An Anniversary Letter
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The time it takes is the right time
Watch now | There are no rules. Whenever you start, that is the right time. Whatever you draw, or write, or create, however long it takes, is right. And…
Jan 12
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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December 2023
Things I haven't done this year
Spectacularly successful and glorious failures of 2023
Dec 31, 2023
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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Things I haven't done this Christmas
Not through some higher purpose or design, just because (mostly), I didn't get round to it.
Dec 22, 2023
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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Mad Dogs and an English Woman
"The dogs I know have many shapes, for some are big and tall, and some are long, and some are thin, and some are fat and small. And some are little bits…
Dec 9, 2023
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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And so it begins
Every season is my favourite. Until the next begins. Then that season is my favourite. There is not a season that I do not love.
Dec 1, 2023
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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November 2023
Confessions of a middle aged Substackaholic
I think Substack is great. So much so that I am often a little evangelical about it. But I’m not an idiot and I know that it wasn’t created by some…
Nov 27, 2023
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Emily Charlotte Powell
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