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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
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Hey. Make that story weirder.
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hey. Make that story weirder.
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Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.
December 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Using genAI for concept art is so fucking stupid because like... that's where you get the cool shit. Thats the blue sky phase where artists make pieces of art that will be seen by a teenager later and change their life forever. Why would you want to start from mediocre. Why would you do that.
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Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Just really sucks that so many of us are barely getting by (if that), and the people who stole from us are rewarded with billions. It's hard to put into words how demoralising that is.
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I keep thinking about all of the people who were NOT hired as part of this exercise. All the real world production crew. The actors. The caterers supporting real world shoots. So many people with real skills not being paid. So. Many. Creative. People. Not. Being. Paid.
The company behind the mcdonalds ad:
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
Imagine taking more time than it would take to do something traditionally. I bet it would take a builder longer to build a house out of jelly instead of brick, because jelly isn't brick.
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I keep thinking about all of the people who were NOT hired as part of this exercise. All the real world production crew. The actors. The caterers supporting real world shoots. So many people with real skills not being paid. So. Many. Creative. People. Not. Being. Paid.
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I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
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December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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Today, I went full Captain Kirk, mentally slapping myself silly for “not doing enough”… after managing 1,700 words in a chaotic week.
So I wrote a newsletter about it – and about why we need to stop self-destructing & start taking the win.
Have a read: www.cavletter.com/stop-beating... #writing
So I wrote a newsletter about it – and about why we need to stop self-destructing & start taking the win.
Have a read: www.cavletter.com/stop-beating... #writing
Stop beating yourself up!
Yes, I'm talking to you!
www.cavletter.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today, I went full Captain Kirk, mentally slapping myself silly for “not doing enough”… after managing 1,700 words in a chaotic week.
So I wrote a newsletter about it – and about why we need to stop self-destructing & start taking the win.
Have a read: www.cavletter.com/stop-beating... #writing
So I wrote a newsletter about it – and about why we need to stop self-destructing & start taking the win.
Have a read: www.cavletter.com/stop-beating... #writing
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'you can cradle to grave away
every warm human word
you could ever have said'
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every warm human word
you could ever have said'
💔
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
'you can cradle to grave away
every warm human word
you could ever have said'
💔
every warm human word
you could ever have said'
💔
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Comments fuel artists and creators. They help fledgling projects grow because other people see them and spread the word or interact.
We definitely cherish every single comment we’ve gotten on the comic on any of our platforms - especially the website.
Keep them coming. 🥰
We definitely cherish every single comment we’ve gotten on the comic on any of our platforms - especially the website.
Keep them coming. 🥰
Always and forever grateful to my friends and supporters and people for leaving comments. 💜💜💜
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Comments fuel artists and creators. They help fledgling projects grow because other people see them and spread the word or interact.
We definitely cherish every single comment we’ve gotten on the comic on any of our platforms - especially the website.
Keep them coming. 🥰
We definitely cherish every single comment we’ve gotten on the comic on any of our platforms - especially the website.
Keep them coming. 🥰
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What I'm saying is if you're making comics or practicing whatever art you do, you're already winning. The arts expects you to be great in your chosen field, also be able to do promo in a vacuum, all your own admin and somehow always have money. It's not realistic. Making anything is the victory.
November 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
What I'm saying is if you're making comics or practicing whatever art you do, you're already winning. The arts expects you to be great in your chosen field, also be able to do promo in a vacuum, all your own admin and somehow always have money. It's not realistic. Making anything is the victory.
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RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
October 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.
A massive loss 💔
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Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.
September 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
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Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
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Imagine robbing yourself of all the weird choices and decisions to make the thing you want to make, ways to make every little nook and cranny of the thing you’re making more interesting to you and maybe you alone because you’d rather ask an ai to do it.
September 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Imagine robbing yourself of all the weird choices and decisions to make the thing you want to make, ways to make every little nook and cranny of the thing you’re making more interesting to you and maybe you alone because you’d rather ask an ai to do it.
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If someone says you should do less of the art you love doing, they are not looking out for you.
I love the below analogy because the people who love your art aren't going "I wish you'd do less, BE less." Especially if you're taking risks & developing your craft. There's always more to the journey.
I love the below analogy because the people who love your art aren't going "I wish you'd do less, BE less." Especially if you're taking risks & developing your craft. There's always more to the journey.
It's a strange reasoning... It'd be like saying "I wish that Neil Young would stop making music. After 4 records I know what he's about."...
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
If someone says you should do less of the art you love doing, they are not looking out for you.
I love the below analogy because the people who love your art aren't going "I wish you'd do less, BE less." Especially if you're taking risks & developing your craft. There's always more to the journey.
I love the below analogy because the people who love your art aren't going "I wish you'd do less, BE less." Especially if you're taking risks & developing your craft. There's always more to the journey.
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One of the most infuriating things as an artist is capturing something just right in your quick rough sketch, and never being able to replicate it in your final drawing. Even if you trace it. It’s forever stuck in that rough.
September 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
One of the most infuriating things as an artist is capturing something just right in your quick rough sketch, and never being able to replicate it in your final drawing. Even if you trace it. It’s forever stuck in that rough.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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you're the main reason to keep on going
August 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
you're the main reason to keep on going
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The answers to your art questions are in the act of drawing.
Skip the drawing part and you'll end up overthinking until drawing no longer sounds fun.
Skip the drawing part and you'll end up overthinking until drawing no longer sounds fun.
August 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The answers to your art questions are in the act of drawing.
Skip the drawing part and you'll end up overthinking until drawing no longer sounds fun.
Skip the drawing part and you'll end up overthinking until drawing no longer sounds fun.
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Generative art tools
August 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Generative art tools
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I think people think that art taking a long time to learn means like a month or maybe a year and not an ever expanding process that progresses with you the entirety of your time drawing. You don't "finish" getting good at art because that's not the freaking point.
August 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I think people think that art taking a long time to learn means like a month or maybe a year and not an ever expanding process that progresses with you the entirety of your time drawing. You don't "finish" getting good at art because that's not the freaking point.