Month: November 2018

Hello, hello, and welcome to day three of ZineWriMo! We’re on our way now, zine friends. Today we have a bit of a prep day for things to come later in the month.

Make mini-zine blanks

I got my very first papercut of the month folding these lovelies, but I am all set. You’ll need seven if you want to make each of the ‘make a zine’ prompts for the month (eight if you’d like to make a ZineWriMo zine about the whole experience).

I’m a ‘production line’ kind of mind, I suppose you could say, so when I’m making more than one thing, I like to do all of step one, then all of step two and so on. I don’t think it makes it any more or less creative. For me, it’s more so because then the blank canvas is already prepped and ready to go. I only need to think about the art.

But maybe I’m thinking about the whole thing a little too much. Haha.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things

Hello, and happy Friday, zine friends! I’m still in shock that we’re already in November, but what can you do short of getting a good grip and holding on for the ride?

Today we’re going to take our brainstorms/thought gardens from yesterday and give them a bit of organisation.

Goals, Plans, Dreams: Organise the brainstorm

While I do like the somewhat choatic look of my idea web, it doesn’t really fit my mind’s preferences when it comes to actual planning. With planning, I like lists. Lists, lists, and more lists.

There are, of course, plenty of ways to organise ideas. Whatever way works best for you is the best way for you to do it. Personally, I’m a big fan of the bullet journal style of organisation:

As soon as I started taking the things from my web and making them into the list, I started feeling like these things were achievable. This isn’t my full list (because that could go on for miles), but I already love the look and feel of this approach.

So what are my goals for ZineWriMo:

*Finish collab zines (and send out contributor copies):
–Paper Currency 2
–Umbrella 2
–Dear Anonymous 8
–Workaholic 1

*Non-Collab Zines:
–Missives From Murray Bridge 16
–Don’t Call Me Cupcake 10

*Other Zines:
–ZineWriMo Mini-Zines

*Other:
–Do all ZineWriMo daily activities (and blog about it)

*Extra Credit:
–The Zine Collector Episode 20
–Put zines onto Amazon
–Open the SGZ distro?!

Wowza. That’s a list, but I’m feeling good about it.

Do you use a different way to organise your plans? I’d love to see it if you’ve posted about it anywhere. Be sure to leave a comment and link in the description.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

*Echo Publishing
*Riot Grrl
*Ulterior Zines
*Olga Writes Things
*Zines and Things

I’m not ready! How is it November already? I’m definitely not ready. Haha. But here we are anyway! Day one of ZineWriMo. Today’s to-do is a pretty fun one – at least for someone like me who loves planning. (Not so great at the execution of the plans, but…)

Brainstorming Day! Come up with zine ideas

‘Brainstorming’ is the more common term, but I thought I’d throw ‘thought gardens’ in there as well because I actually prefer it. It brings lovely visuals of planting thought seeds and watching them grow into various projects. In this case, zine projects!

There are heaps of ways to brainstorm, of course. There’s the tried and true method from my childhood – the idea web:

I think these are fun because it gets be out of my usual ‘locked down’ sort of linear thinking. The web can spread and grow as it pleases, filling the page with glorious ideas.

Alas, before I got that far, prepping my though garden involved wandering around the house and gathering all the slips of paper and sticky notes into one place. Hehe.

If my rapidly growing garden has shown me one thing, it’s that this is going to be a busy month!

Are you joining in ZineWrimo? Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Be sure to leave a link in the comments to where you’re posting/tweeting/etc so I can check it out!