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’s Substack, The Habit of Art—you will be so happy did. Even if you never considered visual storytelling as something you might do, you may feel differently after watching our conversation. Share the results of the prompt and Kelcey will choose one writer at random to send her Dandelions postcard to!The next “Three Things” conversation will be on Substack Live on July 25, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT with Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs. Subscribe if you’d like to be notified of when we go live and to have access to the replay and bonus content.
Here’s what we discussed
is “a writer who started a daily drawing habit.” Her highly successful Substack, The Habit of Art, is an illustrated newsletter about the ups, downs, twists, turns, and life-changing power of making art and telling stories. Kelcey is the author of 4 books including the award-winning graphic memoir, The Keeper (Avery/Penguin), and served as co-editor of the Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature with . All comics and artwork are shared with permission of the author.Some quick definitions:
Graphic narratives: Sequential storytelling
Poetry comics: Less narrative, more lyrical
Literary collage: Cutting, pasting, found texts
On Getting Started with Visual Art (00:04:25 - 00:07:47)
In 2018, Kelcey committed to making art daily, following the principle of “making 50 pounds of art,” inspired by a ceramics class experiment where quantity led to quality. She ended up creating 70 pounds of art that year.
