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Portia Elan

monthly collaborative zines to print & make

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It's pub day!

This message is a little time machine, because I’m writing to you from Monday evening. I’ve just come home from my neighborhood walk and Ripley wants to know if it’s time for lap yet (not quite, baby girl, not quite).

I just feel so freak...

15 days ago
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day in the life of an almost-debut

I feel a strange (but not unpleasant) kind of abeyance in these last weeks before the book comes out — so here is a quiet day-in-the-life, with a few reflections on the Work of Being An Author (which is different than the work of writing a...

a month ago
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what i didn't know to dream

Dear friend,

I spent any number of hours, over the last few years, daydreaming about this thing I was writing becoming a book. I mainlined Reddit posts and blogs and podcasts to feed my daydreams — how could it be, this future I was trying...

2 months ago
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7

why does travel stress me out so much?

Dear friend,

I hoped to send this newsletter out before my trip to Pittsburgh but clearly that didn’t happen, since I’ve gone and come home again, done laundry and gotten two good nights of sleep. So you will get to hear not just about pr...

3 months ago
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4

making whimsy in the dark

When I was in 6th grade, we had to write a single sentence with each of our spelling words every week. A sentence? Bah! I had access to Word, with its beguiling newsletter templates, and a desire to make things. Instead of a sentence, I cra...

4 months ago
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