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   Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor

   Lynda Barry

   “I wasn’t quite 20 years old when I started my first notebook. I had no idea that nearly 40 years later, I would not only still be using it as the most reliable route to the thing I’ve come to call my work, but I’d also be showing others how to use it too, as a place to practice a physical activity — in this case writing and drawing by hand — with a certain state of mind.

   This practice can result in … a wonderful side effect: a visual or written image we can call “a work of art”; although a work of art is not what I’m after when I’m practicing this activity.

   What am I after? I’m after what Marilyn Frasca called “being present and seeing what’s there.””

   Lynda Barry’s Syllabus – an illustrated field guide to keeping a visual diary for creativity:

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