November 2019 – Page 5

November 9, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 9: Sharing is Caring: Connect with Other Zinemakers

Hello, zine friends, and happy weekend if this is the start to your weekend. If it is not, happy day. 🙂 Today we have a Sharing is Caring Saturday, and the activity is…

Sharing is Caring: Connect with Other Zinemakers

Connecting with other people is one of many elements that makes the zineverse great, which is why listing other participants for events like ZineWriMo (and zine trades, and zine review zines, etc) is important to me. You can find the list of other participants at the end of each post this month, and there are other ways to connect, too!

There is a ZineWriMo Facebook Group as well as the hashtags #zinewrimo and #zinewrimo2019 that you can check out on Instagram and/or Twitter.

That is it for me today, wonderful creatives. Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

https://www.instagram.com/violett_komplett/
https://www.instagram.com/bydhiyanah/
https://www.instagram.com/dungeon_maven/
https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/
https://www.instagram.com/gothcupcake/
https://www.instagram.com/14thframe/

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 9, 2019

Call for Submissions: Phenomena 2

November 9, 2019

Call for Submissions: Final Dear Anonymous Zine

November 8, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 8: Friday Night Highlights: Show Off/Write About Your Progress

Happy Friday, zine friends! And hello to the eighth day of ZineWriMo. On this fine Friday, we have…

Friday Night Highlights: Show Off/Write About Your Progress

It all begins with washi.

Okay, so it technically begins with thinking about what I want to write about in a Missive, but after that, it usually starts with washi (or other design elements if I decided to make the Missive purely on the computer – I go back and forth).

I started to feel bad and drop back into the same old habits. Why haven’t I accomplished more, why don’t I have more energy, blah blah blah. These old habits are certainly difficult to break! Alas, I remembered what past Nyx has been saying all along: no stress! Some days, you can make a whole zine in 24 hours. Other days, getting some washi laid out on some pages is pretty awesome. Still other days? Well, sleep is good.

So no matter what you have or haven’t done today and so far in ZineWriMo, it’s all good. No judgments here.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 7, 2019

Zine Review: LeToMaGiC Issue 3

LeToMaGiC Issue 3
https://twitter.com/letomagic
https://issuu.com/letomagic/docs

LeToMaGiC Issue 3 is a 9.5cmx9.5cm black and white mini-zine about beer, zine spots to visit, and football (soccer for American zine friends). This zine mixes some Athens goodness in along with Australian locations.

What a start to a zine! I had immediately been wondering about the mix of capital and lowercase letters of the zine, and it turns out that the totally cool title is a shortened version of another totally cool title: Letters To Marina Ginesta Coloma. I don’t want to spoil any more than that, but what a fun way to create a title and honour an important person!

LeToMaGiC starts with this to-the-point and yet not at all lacking introduction touching on the title and dedication before launching into a collection of mini-beer reviews as well as mini place reviews/thoughts. I write ‘reviews’ but it’s more like the aforementioned letters sharing thoughts and enjoyable moments about the various places.

I had a bit of a chuckle about the different names for different beer sizes in Australia. Things vary from state to state (for instance, a Victoria ‘pint’ is a South Australia ‘imperial’). I loved learning about so many things to do with my own country. With limited space, the zinemaker gets right to the interesting points like, for example, how Two Birds is the first brewery in Australia founded by women. (Of course! What a name. Haha.) And even with things I do know about and places I’ve been to (love to Sticky Institute), it’s always interesting to get a different perspective.

I enjoyed the little elements in this zine like the ‘this book belongs to’ with a blank line for writing down your name, the highlighter blue border around the cover along with highlighter orange thread handbinding, and, of course, the small colour photos of tiny footballers pasted in on some of the pages. I know pretty much nothing about football, but I still enjoyed the element.

All up, LeToMaGiC Issue 3 is an interesting zine that had me looking at places I’ve been with new eyes and even left me curious enough about some of these beers to have a go. Not to mention eager to read the other LeToMaGiC zines.

November 7, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 7: Write it Down: Create a Zine Ideas Book

Day 7?! Woosh! Haha. Hello, zine friends, and welcome to another day in ZineWriMo-land. Today we have a fun one in the form of…

Write it Down: Create a Zine Ideas Book

I’m a sticky notes all over my desk and scribbled-on napkins stuck in my pockets kind of woman. However, I do still carry a little notebook around with me most times because you really never know when inspiration will strike. (As I’ve said entirely too many times at this point haha.)

Today’s zinespiration was actually really easy for me not because I already have an idea notebook going (you do NOT want to see the state of the zine cave) but because…

Stickers! True Zine Marin sent me this little lovely that she stickered up for me, and I knew it would be absolutely perfect. I forgot to take pictures of the inside, but there are even perforated pages.

It’s the little things in life. Haha.

I’m planning on adding some more stickers and some washi tape as well. In the past I’ve been focused on just having the notebook with me, but this time I’d like to have fun in creating the notebook as well as writing down the ideas that it will store.

Do you have a favourite notebook? Will you make one for your glorious ideas? Let me know, and be sure to check out the others participating in ZineWriMo 2019.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 6, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 6: Work In Progress Wednesday

Hello, zine friends! Welcome to this, the sixth day of November and thus the sixth day of ZineWriMo. It’s also the first Wednesday of the month, which means…

Work In Progress Wednesdays

WIP Wednesdays are for working toward the goals you set earlier as well as sharing what you’re working on in whatever ways you so choose.

Most of my progress today was mental with a few notes scribbled down on my handy dandy legal pad. I had a therapy session today, so doing much after that was a bit of an ask energy-wise. But these are the sort of days I had in mind when I decided to put together a prompts list that leaned more toward a relaxed way of doing things. No pressures. No stress.

What have you been working on? Have you been sharing your progress anywhere online? Let me know in the comments and be sure to connect with other people getting their ZineWriMo happening this month.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 5, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 5: Warm Up: Oodles of Doodles

Day five! It’s already day five! Eep! Haha. Hello and welcome, zine friends! For today’s prompt…

Warm Up: Oodles of Doodles

Warm Up days are meant to be just that – creative warm ups. Whether it’s something you do regularly or something you rarely do, warming up is the gentle stretching of creativity. Loosening up of the structures we set up for ourselves and a freeing of the creative self.

I imagine how I may sound in writing that, but it’s true! You see, zine friends, I am not someone who doodles. I don’t often sketch, doodle, draw, or any number of different things. However, I do believe in the possibilities that can be unlocked by trying new things, so here we are.

As it turned out, I loved today’s prompt, and it even brought me a bit of nostalgia!

If I ‘doodle’ anything, it’s usually a mass of random swirls and flowers with the occasional pattern mixed in there. When I started out, I found myself actually pretty resistant. Oh, the flowers aren’t pretty, oh does that even make sense, so on and so forth. Slowly but surely, however, I found myself relaxing with the blank page. I let my hand and the ink it controlled wander where it would. Swirls, curls, vines, and flowers… I let it happen, and it was very nice.

But then! Oh, nostalgia!

From swirls and curls I changed to rulers and lines! Did anyone else make these in school? I learned how to do them when I was very young, and I remember I became absolutely obsessed with making them again and again. It had been YEARS since I’ve made one, but when I started, I fell right back into it. Something about straight lines combining to make a curve seemed like magic to me when I was a kid, and it was so much fun to make one again.

Lovely stuff.

How did you get along today? Did you have some fun with doodles, drawings, and or visual explorations? Let me know. And be sure to check out the other people joining in!

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 4, 2019

Happy Mail Monday – Just Happy Edition

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Hello and welcome to another Happy Mail Monday where I share the lovely mail that has made its way to my post box. This week, friends from near and far have sent glorious perzines. Join me in checking them out.

Thank you so much for watching.

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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*ZineWriMo – https://www.seagreenzines.com/happy-zinewrimo-2019/

*Butch Nor Femme – https://www.instagram.com/lynnemonsoon/
– http://www.butchnorfemme.com/
– https://www.etsy.com/au/people/ButchNorFemme

*Nichole – https://www.instagram.com/corridorgirl/
– https://www.etsy.com/shop/collectingwords

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My PO Box:

Jaime Nyx
PO Box 378
Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Australia

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You Can Find Me At:

seagreenzines@gmail.com

Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/seagreenzines

November 4, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 4: Make A Mini-Zine: Full of Colour!

Hello, zine friends, and welcome to the first Make A Mini-Zine Monday of ZineWriMo 2019! And of course, today’s prompt…

Make A Mini-Zine Full of Colour

I’m not sure what I was thinking when I picked this for today, but past me knew what then-future-me needed today, that’s for sure. As I was finishing up editing the Happy Mail Monday video (to come soon), I was drawing a complete blank on what to do! Colour, okay. But what about?

As it turned out, what my marshmallow heart really needed to do was just get out my markers, grab a mini-zine blank, and just go for it.

I am so, so glad I did.

I love plans, goals, and lists utterly and completely, but the way things have been… Today turned out to be a good day for my soul. I had my colours, I had my blank paper, and I just started making swirls with the colours. From the swirls came ideas. From the ideas came words. And with those words came things I really needed to express – even if only to myself.

I talk and write a lot about what zines can be and do for people, but it’s the moments like these that truly remind me about how important it is that we create. That we make our music, paint our paintings, speak our truths, and, well, make our zines. Finding your way of expressing is a very important step in figuring out who you are.

Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

https://www.instagram.com/violett_komplett/
https://www.instagram.com/bydhiyanah/
https://www.instagram.com/dungeon_maven/
https://hadass420.wordpress.com/
https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza