Author: Nyx

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:

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

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:

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

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

Hello, hello, and hello! Three hellos for this, the third day of ZineWriMo. And what a day it is! Sunny, big fluffy clouds, cool breezes. Today, I am sitting at my desk with blank pieces of paper for today’s prompt…

Make Mini-Zine Blanks

For this year’s ZineWriMo, you’ll need four mini-zine blanks if you’d like one for each of the prompts – five if you’d like to make a mini-24-hour zine. I highly recommend making more, though. I like having spare blanks on hand because you never know when an idea will strike. Plus they are pretty easy to tuck away in notebooks and in pockets.

Let me know if you’re prepping with mini-zine blanks and/or prepping in other ways as well.

Other Participants:

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

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

Hello, zine friends! Is it too soon to think this month is going by too fast? Hahaha. Let’s get ready to roll on with our ZineWriMo goodness with today’s prompt!

Plan It Out: What Are Your Goals for This ZineWriMo?

So technically I more or less covered my goals in yesterday’s post, so today I thought I’d get a bit more specific.

Along with posting to the prompts each day, I mentioned that I’d like to make the next Missive From Murray Bridge. MFMB is my monthly (up until recently) newsletter about life and other zine sorts of things going on. I’ve decided that, because things fell the way they did, I want to do a sort of big bonus issue.

Thinking more on that, I’ve decided on two pages (four, front and back) instead of the usual one, and I’m definitely going full colour. The usual sudoku definitely needs to happen along with plenty of washi tape, too!

I don’t want to plan out too much more of that because making the Missives are sort of play for me. Going with the flow and seeing what happens. So that’s where I’ll leave it for now.

Until next time, spread a little sunshine.

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Whether you are participating one day, all of them, taking one prompt and running with it… It’s all good! Let me know so I can add your name (and link, if available) to the list.

Other Participants:

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

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza