51 (More) Ideas for Your Next Zine

Inspiration is a fickle thing. You never know where it’ll strike, but you also can’t wait around for it to do so if you want to get anything done. 51 Ideas for Your Next Zine was helpful to people, so I figured I’d help out with another list. Here are…

51 (More) Ideas for Your First/Next Zine

In no particular order…

1. Say it without words (make a wordless zine)
2. Your favourite recipe & the story behind it
3. Take a day/week/etc off the internet & document your thoughts
4. Your favourite conspiracy theory
5. Your favourite mystery
6. Three people (living or dead) come to dinner…
7. Who are you in an alternate timeline? What if you’d made different choices?
8. Dreams/nightmares
9. Goals/aspirations
10. What comes after capitalism/consumerism?
11. Something you’ve always wanted to learn
12. Books you want to write/comics you want to make/stories you want to tell
13. Dream job that doesn’t exist
14. Your very mild superpower
15. Play tourist in your town
16. Character profile (real or fictional)
17. Guilty pleasures
18. Bucket list (things to do before ___)
19. What you’d do with $1 million (silly or serious)
20. Write by hand (it activates different parts of the brain than typing does)
21. Brainstorm your next project
22. Create a survey and share the results
23. Go through any childhood papers/art you have
24. Do a life audit
25. One thing you’ve learned for each year of life you’ve lived
26. What inspires you
27. Who inspires you
28. Your own life hacks
29. Make something with a friend
30. Try blackout poetry
31. The Tourist’s Guide to Your Life
32. The Beginner’s Guide to ___
33. Things you wish for (big and small)
34. Things you wish people knew about you the moment they met you
35. Your dream workspace/studio (bonus points for drawing it!)
36. Write a manifesto
37. How I Got Started ___
38. People you would like to meet
39. Try something “for kids” (they’re still fun activities)
40. Something you couldn’t finish for whatever reason
41. Create a puzzle (crossword, sudoku, etc) to include in your zine
42. What makes you happy?
43. Who/What has positively influenced you?
44. Turn it into art (take that as you will)
45. Explore ‘generators’ online – vampire name generator, Shakespeare insult generator, etc
46. Your ideal phone app
47. Go ‘random article surfing‘ on Wikipedia
48. Imagine a life story for a stranger
49. Your muse
50. What your pets get up to after you go to sleep…
51. Check out my first 51 Ideas for Your Next Zine