ZineWriMo 2024 Day 6: Work In Progress Wednesday

ZineWriMo Day 6: Work In Progress Wednesday

Hello and welcome to the middle of the week! Wednesdays mean one thing for ZineWriMo, and that is Work In Progress day. I’ll be finishing up the mini-zine I nearly finished on Monday.

What are you working on today?

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That is all for my day six. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

*Ola – https://www.instagram.com/backseatzzz/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

November 5, 2024

ZineWriMo 2024 Day 5: Zine Ideas Stash

ZineWriMo Day 5: Share your ideas notebook/planner/Notion/etc

Hello, zine friends! Here we are, launching into day five with a prompt I enjoy because I love to see how people organise their notes and their lives.

I’ve done quite a few different things over the years. A dedicated notebook just for ideas alone, Notion, Trello, sticky notes all over the place… For this year, though, I am happy to have found my happy place: a notebook I made myself that has everything I want and need for Sea Green Zines things. Including my ideas! I show a little bit of it in the short below.

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That is all for my day five. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

November 4, 2024

ZineWriMo 2024 Day 4: Make a Zine

ZineWriMo Day 4: Make a Zine: Make a double-sided mini-zine

Hello zine friends! It has been a big day with a big happy mail as well as day four of ZineWrimo, but I couldn’t be happier. I don’t recall off the top of my head the last time I made a zine, but it has been quite a while. The inspiration for this one hit hard, and I’m absolutely thrilled.

I didn’t quite manage to finish it up, but I’m nearly there and very happy to (almost) have a new zine to put out into the zineverse.

I hope you all are having a fabulous day and are feeling inspired.

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That is all for my day four. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

November 3, 2024

ZineWriMo 2024 Day 3: Connect

ZineWriMo Day 3: Connect with other zinemakers: #zinewrimo #zinewrimo2024

Hello and welcome to a beautiful day three of ZineWriMo!

Today is all about connecting to your fellow zinemakers. Part of the fun of a monthly zine event is chatting to other zinemakers and seeing what they are doing.

So be sure to check out the hashtags:

#zinewrimo
#zinewrimo2024

On your chosen platform! I’m most active on Instagram, but try them out on your platforms to see what people are making. And, of course, check out the list below!

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That is all for my day three. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

*Nina – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

November 2, 2024

ZineWriMo 2024 Day 2: Plan & Prep

ZineWriMo Day 2: Plan & Prep: Set out your plan and get prepared: markers, music, snacks, & more

Here we are on day two already, and it’s time for plans and prep! Prep is pretty easy for me after months ago when I got some clear containers for all my stationery fun storage. I’m an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ person big time, so it helps to have all my supplies very much in sight when I’m at my desk.

As for my goals this month, I have decided to just try my best and see what happens. So I’m going to focus on…:

*Post every day of ZineWriMo
*Big November mail out
*Zine Project 1
*Zine Project 2
*Zine Project 3

Ah, I know. Secret projects, what are they all about. But I am hoping that making them a little mysterious will help keep me going and help me not feel so bad if anything pops up during the month, and I’m not able to meet all my goals.

My overall goal is what it is every year: to have a fun time without too much pressure. So I hope that happens for everyone this year.

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That is all for my day two. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

*ShellBob – https://www.instagram.com/shellbobmv/

*Erica – https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

November 1, 2024

ZineWriMo 2024 Day 1: Brainstorms & Thought Gardens

ZineWriMo Day 1: Brainstorms & Thought Gardens: Come up with ideas for the month ahead.

Is anyone else completely unprepared for November?! My goodness.

Alas, time moves on whether or not we are ready for it! But November brings ZineWriMo, and day one brings on of my favourite activities: brainstorming! Or thought gardens, which I also like calling it. (I can’t decide which term is my favourite.)

It’s hiding a little underneath the prompts list, but pretty much everything to do with Sea Green Zines and zinemaking goes into my SGZ notebook (covered with stickers <3).

That said, I have also been known to get out a big A3 piece of paper along with a lot of coloured markers and then just having a go with the possibilities. These are all paper possibilities, of course. You can go digital as well! I haven’t found anything online for brainstorming that I like, but if you have please let me know! I’d love to check it out.

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That is all for my day one. Check out this ZineWriMo post for more on the background of ZineWriMo as well as the prompts list. Also be sure to check out the links below to start connecting to other zinemakers.

Joining In

*Hadass – https://hadass420.wordpress.com

*Smita – https://www.instagram.com/smitavkumar/

~Let me know if you are participating so I can add you to the list!~

October 18, 2024

ZineWriMo 2024!

ZineWriMo is coming! The approach of November means the the approach of Zine Writing Month.

What’s ZineWriMo then?

If you’re not familiar, ZineWriMo is the zine alternative to NaNoWriMo created by Jasper (I no longer have any social links for them) 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 Jasper’s 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!

Feel free to grab a copy here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/str0t59vev01s2es3t77c/ZineWriMo-2024.jpg?rlkey=fbokhw36307e42pdj4zzqjrpx&st=1u5cge6c&dl=0

Or email me at seagreenzines@gmail.com if you’d like me to send you the list in PDF or larger .JPG form.

November 15, 2023

ZineWriMo Day 14/15 – Set Your Zine(s) Free/Halfway Day

Hello, zine friends! Halfway through the month already. I’ve had a couple of hiccups in regards to daily posting already, but I’m still super happy with how things are going. As it’s the 15th when I am posting this, doing the halfway day my way means redoing yesterday. Haha.

ZineWriMo Day 14 – Set Your Zine(s) Free

I certainly have no intention in pressuring anyone to set their zines free be it giving them away to people you know or leaving them for people to find or anything else. But if you want to give your zine or some zines away for free, I think it’s a fabulous idea!

This year, you can grab a copy of my:

24 Hour Zine Thing 1

If you have any trouble with the file there, you can always email me at seagreenzines at gmail.com and I will send you a copy from there.

ZineWriMo Day 15 – Halfway Day

So catching up with yesterday is my day today. I’m struggling a bit with my mental health, truth be told, so I’m grateful for something on the easier side for the day.

I hope you all are having a wonderful week and have a beautiful rest of the week ahead.

Other Participants:

*https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/
*https://www.instagram.com/erica.engdahl/
*https://www.instagram.com/thecaffeinatedzinester/
*https://www.instagram.com/thegnomewife/
*https://www.instagram.com/apocalypsegrrl/
*https://www.instagram.com/livingjazzy/
*https://www.instagram.com/sierradecarmen/

Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.

November 13, 2023

ZineWriMo Day 13 – Try It Out

Hello, dear zine friends! It is another day in ZineWriMo with another prompt to help inspire your creativity.

Try It Out – Blackout Poetry

If you’re not familiar with blackout poetry, it’s a pretty uncomplicated one. How to Blackout Poetry not only tells you but also shows you how it works. Or you can look below…

I opened my copy of The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger to a random page and ended up with this one. I like sitting down for blackout poetry because it feels (to me) a bit intimidating at first until I start carving away the words. A new piece-within-the-piece begins to form, and a story I didn’t know was there takes shape. This one went in a bit of a darker direction than I first anticipated, but I felt like the words guided me rather than the other way around.

I hope you all have had a lot of fun with this prompt and discovered all sorts of fun things.

Other Participants:

Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.

November 10, 2023

ZineWriMo Day 10 – Friday Night Highlights

Hello, hello from a fairly toasty day in South Australia. And happy Friday! Being Friday, it’s time for…

Friday Night Highlights – Show off your work(s) in progress

My progress is… a messy desk.

I’m actually pausing what I am doing (working on The 24(+) Zine Thing 4) because I realised that I’d be working well into the night and didn’t want to miss out on what natural light I had left. Haha.

Today’s creative session was completely unplanned but very much needed. Today has been a bit of a rough one, and I’m glad I’ve taken the time and made the space to be creative. It’s soothing to my soul.

I hope you all are having a nice and creative Friday.

Spread a little sunshine.

Other Participants:

Get the full list of prompts and find out what this whole ZineWriMo thing is all about here.