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Rock by Rock—Finding the Edges of a World
In a world where everyone is struggling in different ways, in ways big and small, it can be easy to normalize and dismiss struggle. We shrug. This is the world.1
Today, a few glimpses from my illustrated journal and my October drawing proj...
Week 42 Prompts for Illustrate Your Week 2026
I post a new set of Illustrate Your Week prompts every Sunday to help inspire and nurture the process of keeping an illustrated journal of your life. Add text and images to make a visual record that is uniquely you.
Illustrate Your Week...
Personal Essays & Explorations
Images from various posts. © A. Cowen
Personal essays and creative nonfiction are a foundation and an undercurrent at Illustrated Life. Explorations of the ways in which creative life, philosophy, mindfulness, and memory connect and inters...
On Keeping an Illustrated Journal
Excerpts from journals through the years. © A. Cowen
Belief in the value of documenting individual life and keeping a record of the passage of days, weeks, months, and years is a cornerstone of Illustrated Life. As both a writer and an art...
Hybrid and Imaginative Writing
Digital collages and black and white photography. © A. Cowen
Exploring Fragments and Half-Stories
With decades of personal essay writing and podcasting behind me, the very small fragment included in the Ferris Wheel post linked below a...
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Connecting the dots, from illustrated journals to diary comics, memory, creative nonfiction, hybrid fiction, tarot, and creative habit. Free weekly #illustrateyourweek prompts to document YOUR life. \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08 (she/her)
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