Category: Zinewrimo

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

Hello, and happy November, zine friends! Also happy Friday!

Today we begin! It’s time for that glorious ZineWriMo time of year, and the very first day of this glorious month is reserved for…

I can never decide whether I like the term ‘brainstorm’ or ‘thought garden’ more, but either way, I love having this first day of the month to scribble down every possibility for what may come. While the ideas need to be honed and shaped, the pure brilliance (and a bit of intimidation!) of the blank page ready and waiting.

As I’ve mentioned, I love the rush of a big to-do list and lots of zine activities, but I always want ZineWriMo to be on the more relaxing side of things. Let’s face it, we’re getting to the ‘extra rough for many’ section of an especially rough year, so relaxation is always appreciated.

So for me? My goals for ZineWriMo are to post every day to the prompts and to get my next Missive out (an extra big Missive because I haven’t made one in a bit). My brainstorming will revolve around what to put into the Missive and trying to manage my habitual urge to do all of the things all of the time.

What are your storms and gardens for this ZineWriMo? Anything particular in mind? Let me know in the comments, and let me know if you’re joining in. I’ll be listing participants at the end of each post so we can all say hi and take a peek at what everyone is doing.

Until next time, spread a little sunshine!

Hello, hello, and hello once more, dear and wonderful zine friends!

The month is all too quickly drawing to a close. That means many things, including…

Happy ZineWriMo 2019!

Thank you all so very, very much for your patience and kindness. I have been absolutely thrilled to see people asking about ZineWriMo this year, and it’s my honour to create a prompts list for you.

Without further ado!

If you’re not familiar, ZineWriMo is the zine alternative to NaNoWriMo created by Kat (@disabledfemme) a few years ago. I am another happy participant who decided to dive right in and create a prompts list as well. It’s all about self-set goals and a prompts list that I hope is fun and relaxing rather than anything 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!

Happy Friday, zine friends! And happy last day of ZineWriMo! Wowza. We made it. There were a few hiccups on the way, but here we are.

ZineWriMo Wrap Up: Write/post about your ZineWriMo month

I decided to make a video for my ‘wrap up’ just because I thought it would be something different and fun. It’s longer than I thought it would be and a bit ramble-y, but I flip through the mini-zines I’ve made this month (except for the zine zine because I didn’t have it with me at the time), the other zines I’ve made, and I also go through the list of goals I made at the beginning of the month.

If that sounds interesting to you, here we go…

If you don’t want to watch the video or want the TL;DR, I didn’t meet all my goals, but I had a lot of fun. I ended up really liking some of the mini-zines I made to the level that I will be putting them in my shop. I did put some ‘shoot for the moon’ type goals that I didn’t reach, but I’m grateful for the motivation that just the possibility of achieving them provided.

Thank you to everyone who participated no matter how you participated. I hope you had fun despite the stresses of your November. I’m wishing you all the best and hope you’ll stop by the other participants.

Until next ZineWriMo!

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

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

The finish line is in sight, zine friends! Today we have a sharing is caring flavour of prompt…

Release your zines directly or leave them to be found

I went for the slightly indirect direct route. Haha. I gave a friend of mine a copy of my horror short fic zine ‘Don’t Look Back’, but I sent it with Wanderer because he’d be seeing her while I wouldn’t. I’ve had the pleasure of introducing this friend to zines, so I like giving her surprise zines.

Did you set your zines free? I’d love to hear how and where you did. 🙂 Let me know in the comments.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

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

Hello, good evening, good morning, and everything in between! It’s our last Work in Progress Wednesday of the month, and I am so excited about what I have been working on today…

Work on your work in progress

What’s all this? Well this is a screen shot of the editing software I use for making videos. Nope, I’m not making a Happy Mail Monday video early. I’m working on the next episode of The Zine Collector podcast!

Woo! It has definitely been a while (and might be a while again to be honest). I’m so excited because five awesome zinemakers are joining me in this episode of The Zine Collector! Haha. Lots of exclamations in this post.

I will be back here very soon with episode 20. I hope you’ve had a wonderful day!

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

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

Hell, and beautiful day to you, zine friends. I hope the day has been treating you well and that the beginning of your week has been kind.

Create on the Go: Make a zinemaker travel kit

It’s only today that I realised that the prompt could be taken a couple ways. Either a travel kit for yourself or a kit for someone else. Alas, I’d already taken the pictures of my little travel kit, so I went with that.

I got this lovely pen/cil case a couple years ago, and I’m not sure if you can still get it. It’s not available on JetPens anymore, at least.

I love that this case has a handle. It feels like a miniature briefcase and has ample different sorts of storage as well.

The front section has nice pen pockets for bigger pens, an elastic band that I like to keep paperclips on, a small pocket that perfectly fits mini-zines…

…and a little pocket that I use for washi.

The back section has a zippered pouch I use for the pens and pencils I don’t use very often and a flap type of holder that’s great for tools. I only have my small ruler in there now, but it’s also good for scissors and other sorts.

Underneath that is a deep section for other bits and bobs. I keep my most often used bits and bobs in there. I like to leave it open and then I can just take things out as I need them when I’m working on something. (I take it with me around the house, too. Hehe.)

(The yellow thing is a bunch of small sticky flags, and the blue thing is an eraser – just in case you were curious.)

So there you have it! I don’t actually get out much, haha, but I still love this pencil case. Especially the mini-zine-sized pocket. And that’s it for me today. I’ll be back tomorrow!

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

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

Hello! It’s the start of a new week and, once again, I’m behind a day. Haha. I can’t feel too bad at the tail end of the month, though.

Because I have a Happy Mail Monday video to come and don’t want to overload email subscribers’ inboxes, I’ve decided to combine yesterday and today. I’ve also decided to combine them because…

Sharing is Caring: Make zines with friends

…I didn’t really accomplish this. I don’t really have any friends (to the degree they’d be able to hang out rather last minute) around town just yet. I did think about doing an online hangout in one form or another, but Wanderer didn’t feel well quite suddenly, so I ended up spending the afternoon keeping an eye on him.

However, I did get to today’s prompt.

Make a Zine: Make a zine about zines!

I intended this zine to be about how to make a mini-zine. How to fold one and that sort of thing. What it ended up being is… a sort of general ramble from me about mini-zines. Bits and bobs about minding your margins, how design is up to you, and that sort.

You can check out a full video flip-through on my Instagram if you’re not clear what I’m on about. I’m still not clear. Haha.

That being said, I love checking out zines about zines, so if you had the chance to make one today, please let me know!

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

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

Aaaaaand hello again! I am back once more with the prompt for today…

Make a profile at ZineWiki.com or make sure your profile is up to date

This is absolutely a nod to the same prompt that appears in the International Zine Month list because I feel the Zine Wiki is a great resource that more people need to know about. While not all the information is up to date, that’s pretty much part and parcel of the zineverse anyway. It can still be a great way to find out more about various zines and zinemakers.

In fact, sometimes the Zine Wiki page is the only easily found page for some zines and zinemakers. (Says she who tries to include at least one link with every zine review.)

This is my page, if you’d like to see an example without needing to leave this post. Haha. Building a page on the wiki system is pretty easy once you get used to it, but if you have any trouble, you can feel free to let me know. I’ll do my best to get things sorted for you. 🙂

If you have a wiki page, let me know in the comments so I can check it out.

Check out the full list of daily prompts here.

Participants:

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