Category: Zinewrimo

Hello zine friends, and hello weekend. Unless it’s not your weekend. If so, hello Saturday! After missing the last make a zine day, I was excited to get into things today and extra excited because I like blackout poetry.

Make a Zine – Blackout Poetry

If you’re not familiar, blackout poetry is taking an existing piece of text – usually from a book or a newspaper – and redacting or blacking out some of the words to create your own poetry.

I decided to create a poem out of one of my favourite quotes from Washington Irving.

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

― Washington Irving

I want to poke away at how it looks, but I was actually pleasantly surprised at how the poem turned out. I was worried that something so short wouldn’t bring about something I liked, but I was so happy to be wrong. I quite like it.

Did you make a zine today? Did you try some blackout poetry?

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*Hadass
*Gettsr
*A Peaceful Homemaker
*Echo Publishing
*Warglitter
*KT Mayflower
*r28 Zines
*Caroline

Happy Friyay, dear zine friends. Even though it’s not technically my ‘weekend’, there’s still a special little sparkle to Fridays. Let’s see what we have for today’s prompt!

Create and/or update your ZineWiki pages

For a few years (I believe) Zine Wiki has been experiencing problems and there was a bit a stir trying to find who ran it and figure out how to fix it. It has been up and running in its new shiny glory for a while, but I still wanted to include a ZineWiki Day just in case anyone hadn’t been there yet or (gasp!) heard of it.

Even though I got into playing with HTML when I was pretty young, I still found the ZineWiki to be a little intimidating to start with. Mostly because I didn’t want to do anything wrong! However, a deep breath and a little looking around later, I found my groove again.

If you are familiar with Wikis – or even if you are but want to brush up on your skills – then I highly recommend checking out the editing pages help and have a play around with things until you feel comfortable.

Another tip for learning the codes a bit faster: Check out other complete page (especially ones with elements you like) and press the edit tab to get familiar with the codes. You can even copy things from one page into a new page or page that you are editing.

I could have sworn that I’d set up a page for myself way back, but I couldn’t find me. (Be sure to search for the page you are looking for before creating a new one.) I do love a fresh start, however, so I happily got a start on my page. Yes, only a start though. I updated the Dear Anonymous and Dear Cupcake pages as well as getting a start on my page, but there are many pages to go! I’m so excited.

Let me know if you set up/updated a ZineWiki page.

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*Hadass
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*A Peaceful Homemaker
*Echo Publishing
*Warglitter
*KT Mayflower
*r28 Zines
*Caroline

Hello and happy Thursday, zine friends. I don’t know about you, but I feel well and truly out of sorts. Today is Thursday? Thank goodness for calendars because I wouldn’t have been able to tell you what day it is. And thank goodness for the prompts list for today’s prompt.

Day 18 – Warm Up – Stream of Consciousness Writing – No thinking, just writing

I have a lot of feels happening at the moment, so the timing of this prompt ended up being so very good. There’s something about just writing my heart out that is somehow exhausting and yet so satisfying at the same time. For me, it’s pushing against the wall of ‘should’ – should be good writing, should be pretty writing, should stay positive, show not write anything negative – to get past it and to real, raw thoughts.

Even better, you can make a ritual of it. You can keep the writing, tear up the writing, burn the writing (my favourite), or a multitude of other things.

So give yourself plenty of time and space to write things out (but there is a time and place to stop if you go to dark places!) and explore your mind.

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*Hadass
*Gettsr
*A Peaceful Homemaker
*Echo Publishing
*Warglitter
*KT Mayflower
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*Caroline

PS. Now I can’t get this song out of my head:

Day 16 – The Halfway Update – Write/share about your progress and how things are going

Happy Wednesday everyone! I’m a little late to the halfway update, but I wouldn’t be Nyx if I wasn’t late to at least a little something every now and then.

As I mentioned yesterday, I had the time away, which threw off my schedule a little bit. But not in a bad way. I’m still pretty much organised with Dear Anonymous 9 and simply have to go about putting it together now, printing, sewing, and then sending it out to contributors as well as other friends too. I had originally set my goal as getting DA9 put together on the computer, but I think I’m going to push all the way to the send out. I don’t know if I can manage to do that financially and I hesitate to do so now that we’re into the holiday mail crush, so we will see. They might be going out early next year.

All planning, planning, but I do so love planning. I’m an admin kind of girl at heart. <3

Day 17 – Work in Progress Wednesday

Honestly? I didn’t do anything today. Haha. Okay, so I did a few things, including go to the doctor, but I didn’t do a heck of a lot and didn’t work on my WIP.

Sometimes I really hate having a weak immune system. Even good things and good stresses can make me sick. It’s all energy expended, it’s all stress on the body, so even the purest form of happiness can leave me in bed and recovering for days.

If you’ve ever wondered why I don’t get out more and don’t do more, it’s mostly the social anxiety but also this. A great night out with friends can leave me sick. This time, a somewhat impromptu trip away that was filled with the most wonderful things and absolute happiness now has me back home and on antibiotics.

That’s life though, and we can only try our best to navigate life’s waters. I am immensely grateful to be part of a community that, even if you don’t all quite understand what it’s like to have the immune system strength of a wet paper bag, you’re all still incredibly supportive of me doing whatever I need to do to be a healthy, happy human.

Onward and upward. Spread that sunshine!

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Hello and warm greetings, zine friends!

I apologise for the sudden radio silence here on the blog. I needed some time away and intended to post that I was heading off, but I simply ran out of time. Not exactly ideal in ZineWriMo, but life happens as it will.

As there’s no happy mail to share with you today and it’s also the “Halfway – Your day, your way” point of ZineWriMo, I think today is the perfect day for some catching up!

Day 9 – Inspiration Station – Write/share about zines/makers that inspire you

I am always a big supporter of spreading sunshine, and a great way to do that is to let people know when they have a positive impact on your life.

I could list people all day for today’s prompt. There are so many zines and zinemakers that/who inspire me in so many different ways. Each person is bringing something new and unique into the world, which is one of the many beautiful things about zineverse.

Today I will list a few of the people who inspire me in so many different ways. Please check them all out!

*Feral Publication
*WarGlitter Zines
*Ryan of Pocket Thoughts
*Nina of Echo Publishing
*Hadass
*Crash

Onto day 10! Continue reading “ZineWriMo Catch Up Days 9 -15”

Hello and happy Monday, zine beans. Welcome back to another day of ZineWriMo. I feel so good having taken some time yesterday to relax and read some zines. Some time to myself is a surefire life and creative battery charger for me. On to a new week and a new prompt for the day.

Organise Your Ideas – Create/show your zine ideas book

As I have mentioned quite a few times at this point, I bullet journal and absolutely love the system. There are a few things, however, that I found myself moving from journal to journal. So, after about eight years of bullet journalling, I decided to finally make a ‘permanent/long term collections’ book.

It’s not a big, big book because I don’t store a lot of things in there. However, my zine ideas are now snuggled in all cosy-like along with things like book/movie/tv show recommendations and whatnot.

I’m super excited today (because I’m a big stationery nerd) to see how people are organising their zine ideas. Please feel free to tag me and/or link your posts in the comments.

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*Hadass
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*Caroline

There’s something so lovely about a quiet Sunday you can spend refilling your creative well and generally being nice to yourself.

Today we have:

Refill the Well – Do something for your creative self

For me, today is all about relaxing with my collection of zines to read. I have so much to do, but down time is important, too. So I’m off to relax and read some zine goodness.

Have a beautiful Sunday everyone.

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*Hadass
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*KT Mayflower
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*Caroline

Hello, zine friends! I was so ready for a weekend, and mine is already flying by. But time flies when you are having fun, and I had fun with today’s ZineWriMo prompt.

Today we have:

Make a Zine – Stream of Creativity – Don’t think! Let loose with words, art, etc.

I have a particularly hard time shutting off my brain most of the time, so today was a hard push to get into. But when I relaxed, it was so nice.

For a while, all I wanted to do was doodle flowers, so I did! They’re weird kind of doodle flowers, but I like them and make them all over in my bullet journal as well. But as I made more and more flowers, I began thinking about spring, which we are currently enjoying in the land of Oz at the moment.

I then followed my urge to write, so I folded up the mini to hide the flowers inside and then went on to write about spring… in cursive! I don’t often write in cursive, but it felt nice to do so in this mini. I should use cursive more often. It’s fun.

I don’t think this is a zine that I will be making copies of, but I believe some of the art that we make should be made just for ourselves. For the pleasure of doing it.

I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone creates today – if you care you share of course!

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Happy Friday, zine friends, and happy day five of ZineWriMo! I am so ready for the weekend and so ready for making my first ZWM mini zine tomorrow. But today we have…

Connect with other zinemakers

It’s a huge part of making zines and being part of the zineverse – connecting with other zinemakers! There are so many ways to get to know and connect with other zinemakers.

On Instagram, I have been using the #zinewrimo and #zwm2021 hashtags on my posts. I’m not active on Twitter, but I’m sure you can use those there as well.

Facebook has quite a few different options, starting with the Zine Love Page.

There are groups as well, including one group just for ZineWriMo.

Zines Australia is a stop for Australian zinemakers (or, perhaps, anyone looking to connect with Aussies?).

Zines A Go Go is a zine group that has been going for a long time and will, with any luck, keep going for a long time to come.

There’s also the Zine Club.

That Monthly Zine Project

We Make Zines is the former Ning where I got started on my zine journey many years ago. It may look different, but oh the nostalgia…

Have I missed any zine spaces? Please let me know.

There is also the list of participants that I post at the end of each ZWM post (and add to – so please get in touch if you’re joining in but aren’t on the list!). Click on the links and go say hello!

*Hadass
*Gettsr
*A Peaceful Homemaker
*Echo Publishing
*Warglitter
*KT Mayflower
*r28 Zines

Hello and happy Thursday, the fourth day of ZineWriMo goodness. The sun is bright, the motivation is strong, and the tissues for my sneezes are soft. Haha. What do we have today?

Get Prepared – Get out your creative tools and make mini-zine blanks

I always have a stash of mini-zine blanks on hand, so that stays the same for me as previous years. However, I have changed up my art (writing, bullet journal, doodling, etc) supplies and how I carry them around the house.

This is my little tote bag beauty for all my various pens, pencils, markers, highlighters, sticky notes, rules, so on and so forth.

Earlier this year, I made a goal of adding more colour and creativity into my life in as many ways as possible. Since then, I have changed things up a big in regards to the pens I use (though I still love Papermate InkJoys) as well as washi tapes and such.

With my little creativity kit here, I feel ready to get into fun stuff no matter what time it is.

What are your creative tools of choice?

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