Some months ago, I stopped publishing my newsletter, Imagination Works from QuinnCreative. There were lots of good reasons: The newsletter was ten years old, I’d originally kept the addresses in an address book, because I sent a paper newsletter. Once I created an online one, I knew that some people weren’t getting the letter anymore, those who
Raw-art-journal entry, Inktense pencils on paper, © Q.McDonald, 2009
got it at work often found it in the spam filter. OK, I’ll admit it was a lot of work putting it on my website, and fads change–people didn’t want a newsletter through email, they wanted it on a website, now people don’t want to be forced to click on links in emails to take them to websites they think might contain mal-ware.
Once I discontinued the newsletter, the emails started. “What happened to the newsletter?” “Where was that article you wrote on failure?” “I went to your website and there’s no newsletter!”
My mistake. There are many reasons to start up the newsletter again. A lot of people don’t want to read a blog every day, don’t want to troll my website to see when a new class is coming up, and want to know about living their creativity out loud as artists, writers, and just plain people. So I’m bringing back the newsletter with a really simple title: QuinnMcDonaldNewsletter. It’s not fancy, it’s simple writing through a Yahoo Group.
You can go here and sign up:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Quinn_McDonald_Newsletter/join
Anyone can sign up. It will come the first and third Sunday of the month, via this Yahoo Group.
Tip of new logo for Quinn's Raw-art-joujrnals
Sundays so people who are in the “Sunday Slump”–that uneasy time of week at the end of the weekend and before the beginning of the work week–will have something interesting to read.
I don’t sign anyone up, I don’t spam anyone. I’ve sent out invitations to a few people who have told me to bring the newsletter back. If you want to receive the newsletter, please go sign up. It will contain links, stories, ideas on living a creative life. Because I still believe that we don’t find meaning in life, we make meaning. The newsletter will be delivered through a Yahoo Group, but it is a newsletter. No photos, no websites, no fancy design. You won’t be required to do anything. I chose Yahoo Groups because it makes it easy to subscribe (and unsubscribe) and for me to mail out.
Yahoo Groups also creates automatic archives, which I could never do, and it was a constant source of questions. Now people can search the archives for previous posts.
Thanks to all for letting me know what you want. I sure hope this is it!
The Pencil © Quinn McDonald, 2005-9
