Zinewrimo – Page 10

October 28, 2020

What’s ZineWriMo?

Hello, zine friends, and welcome back to this year’s ZineWriMo 2020!

So… what is it? Hahaha.

If you’re not familiar, ZineWriMo is the zine alternative to NaNoWriMo created by Jasper (https://www.instagram.com/sunsetjasperilla/) a few years ago. I am another happy participant who decided to dive right in and create a prompts list for the occasion. I try to focus on a list that gives a bit of challenge but isn’t too stressful.

In Kat’s own words:

ZineWriMo is a new idea that came to me in wanting to combine the original NaNoWriMo and zines!

ZineWriMo is November! We focus on making one, or many, zines in November! Our only goal is to create zines, no word count requirement!

Dive in, join up, and let’s get ready to zine!

Here’s the list once more if you’d like it. Feel free to email me at seagreenzines@gmail.com if you’d like me to send you it in PDF form.

October 26, 2020

ZineWriMo 2020 is Coming!

It’s not only here; it’s early!

Well, the prompts list, anyway. Haha.

There’s no Happy Mail Monday today, dear friends, but I used the time to crack on with putting a fresh-as-a-daisy list together for you for 2020’s ZineWriMo.

As always, I want more fun and less stress, so I try to focus on more ‘chill’ things to do while still going for a little firewood for those glorious zine projects. I hope you like the list and consider joining in!

November 30, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 30: ZineWriMo Wrap Up (BONUS: Make a zine about it!)

Hello, hello, and hello once more, wonderful zine friends. Welcome to the final day of ZineWriMo! Hardly seems possible to me, but the calendar tells me that it is so.

ZineWriMo Wrap Up (BONUS: Make a zine about it!)

Ah, what a month. I feel like this year has been a lower key ZineWriMo, which is exactly what I wanted it to be. Creativity and inspiration rather than pressure and stress.

I had two main goals this month: post each day about the prompt for that day and to make the next Missive From Murray Bridge.

I didn’t quite post every day on the day, but that being said, I did learn a bit about self-forgiveness and the fact that life just keeps happening regardless if of whether we like it or not. Haha. Bonus lessons for the win. I also finished up Missives From Murray Bridge 25, which I will be sending out sooner rather than later.

And there we have it – a rather simple wrap up for a nice month of zine creativity.

How did your ZineWriMo go? Did you enjoy the month? The prompts? Did you make a zine or some zines? Let me know in the comments.

Until then, make some zines and 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 30, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 29: Friday Night Highlights: Show Off/Write About Your Progress

Hello, and happy Friday-on-Saturday, zine friends. Friday got well and truly away from me, so it’s a double-ZineWriMo post kind of day to round out not only the week but also the end of the month (already!).

Friday Night Highlights: Show Off/Write About Your Progress

My WIP is WIP no more! (Yes, the colours are accurate – I think my printer is running out of ink.) There was one thing I really wanted to do this month, and it’s create the last Missive of 2019. It’s been a longer time in the coming than I’d thought it would be, but that’s neither here nor there. It’s funny for this to be the first in a number of things that wrap up the year, but really, I’m looking forward to the start of 2020.

Have you shown your Friday highlights, or are you waiting for the big wrap up? Let me know in the comments.

Until then, make some zines and spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 28, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 28: Set Your Zines Free

Hello and happy nearly-Friday, zine friends. Haha. Nearly Friday because I have my days mixed up and almost typed ‘happy Friday’. So what’s on the agenda for today…

Set Your Zines Free

Yes! It’s set your zines free, a day about leaving your zines for people to find, giving free zines to friends, sharing zines online, and all sorts of other ways to share your creations.

Today I’m setting my zines free by packing extra freebies into orders as well as sending out some surprise goodies as well. It’s getting to that point in the year when mail is going to slow down due to the volume, so I wanted to get out some mail before all that happens. Haha. And what a better way to do it.

I’m thinking that, eventually, I’d like to start sharing the zine love more locally – maybe even teach some workshops – but that may be something for 2020. No reason to stop dreaming though. Hehe.

Are you sharing some zine goodness today? Let me know in the comments – especially if you have any giveaways of any sort that you would like me to share.

Until then, make some zines and spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 27, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 27: Work in Progress Wednesday

Hello, and happy Wednesday, zine friends! Today is our last Wednesday and thus our last Work in Progress Wednesday of the month! Oh, gosh, to think we’re already here!

Work in Progress Wednesday

Work in Progress Wednesday is just that – working on our WIPs. If you care to share what you’ve been working on, all the better!

Today I poked away a bit at the InDesign, adding bits and pieces. I absolutely love the amount of clip art you can find on Etsy that is very affordable and can be used as much as you like for non-commercial purposes. I have a lot of watercolour goodies that I have been enjoying including in the Missives.

As much as I do a lot on computer, the writing still happens primarily on paper. That is what I’ve been doing most of the evening, and I will do a bit more before I go to bed. Tomorrow for typing!

What have you been working on today? No stress if the answer is nothing! There is a holiday on soon in the US, so perhaps your priority today was prep or travel. It’s all good. If you’ve shared something, let me know in the comments.

Until then, make some zines and spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 26, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 26: Warm Up: Share the Zine Love: Favourites, Odes, & Thoughts

Hello, dear zine friends, and welcome to this Tuesday, the 26th day of ZineWriMo. Today we have a warm up all about sharing…

Warm Up: Share the Zine Love: Favourites, Odes, & Thoughts

…zine love!

Today I’m sharing my zine love with a favourite as well as a couple pages you may or may not have seen depending on how you view these posts.

First, a favourite for zinemakers of all experience levels.

Stolen Sharpie Revolution!

Stolen Sharpie Revolution is one of the first zine-related additions to my now happy, happy zine collection. It was, is, and forever will be one of my favourite resources for all zinemakers because it covers a bit of everything clearly and concisely – not to mention being an absolutely massive help to me when I was first starting out (nearly a decade ago and dreaming of having a distro).

What’s even more awesome is Alex Wrekk didn’t just leave it at one and done. I have about three different editions of SSR as it keeps growing and expanding with updated as well as new information!

Absolutely one to check out if you haven’t already.

My other two little shares are the resources page and zine review index you can find here on the main site. They could both use some updating (please let me know if you’d like your zine shop, distro, zine blog, etc listed!), but they can be a place to start if you (like me, too) like to have plenty of time and space to poke around all of the things before diving into a new project.

What are you sharing in today’s zine warm up? A favourite zine? Thoughts on zinemaking? Let me know in the comments.

Until then, make some zines and spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 25, 2019

Happy Mail Monday – Happy Tears Edition/ZineWriMo Day 25

Hello, zine friends!

Today I have decided to combine Happy Mail Monday and ZineWriMo Day 25 because the prompt and the day have lined up in such a wonderfully unexpected way.

Today’s prompt is to make a mini-zine celebrating someone. In today’s Happy Mail Monday, I was honoured to have such an amazing friend as Ryan send me a zine… about me. (As strange as that feels to type.) What I’d like to do is just let you know that I open the mail from Ryan at 9.05 in the video, and my reaction? Well, my reaction is what zines and the people who make them can do and be – especially to someone who is struggling.

Until next time.

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Hello and welcome once more to Happy Mail Monday, where I share the glorious mail that has landed in my post box over the past week. Today’s video sees mail from near and far, and a very, very special unexpected surprise that just goes to show what a mini-zine can do.

Thank you so much for watching.

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Awesome People/Places/Spaces Mentioned:

*Real Tioga – https://www.instagram.com/walterinowego/
– https://www.etsy.com/shop/realtioga/
*Billy – https://www.patreon.com/iknowbilly
*Ryan – https://linktr.ee/_my_name_is_ryan_
*Latibule – https://www.instagram.com/latibule_art/
*True Zine Marin – https://www.instagram.com/truezinemarin/

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

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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 24, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 24: 24 Hours on the 24th: Make a Zine (any size/type) in 24 Hours

Hello once more for the second post of the day, zine friends. For today’s prompt…

24 Hours on the 24th: Make a Zine (any size/type) in 24 Hours

Alas, I’m afraid that this post will be of the more boring variety, as I just don’t have the spoons with me to make a 24-hour zine – even a mini-one – today. However, there is still a lot of zine goodness to be enjoyed – even of the ZineWriMo variety, so be sure to check out the other participants below.

Until then, make some zines and spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza

November 24, 2019

ZineWriMo 2019 Day 23: Sharing is Caring: Share Your Zine Space/Tools/Collection/Etc

Hello, zine friends, and oops! I’ll be posting up twice today as yesterday slipped right past me. Saturday’s prompt!

Sharing is Caring: Share Your Zine Space/Tools/Collection/Etc

I’ve mentioned a few times that the zine cave is in less than ideal condition. However, with Happy Mail Monday rolling around once a week, there is a space that I need to keep tidy for filming…

My happy mail table in front of the Wall of Sunshine! (Also known as the Wall of Awesome and the Wall of Zine Goodness.) Ideas don’t always go to plan, but I’m so glad that I followed through with the wall. It makes me smile whenever I look at it. I change and tweak things every now and then, but, for the most part, things remain the same. I will forever be so grateful to each and every person whose creations – be it anything from note, to sticker, to piece of art – have come together to be a part of that space.

How about you? What part of your zine process and/or space are you showing today? Let me know in the comments.

Until then, make some zines and spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Novice Zinester
Herinza Syadza