Refer to the first post of the year "A Year of Creative Challenges."
As
2023 comes to an end next week, I see it go with a small level of
sadness mixed with a pinch of pride. I started this year with notion
that I would do a creative challenge a month every month. Many of the
challenges I took required me to work on them daily. That was a lot
of commitment. Some of them I finished quickly, and some took longer
than the month they were intended to take. Some of these I did with
friends. Some I did with strangers. Some I did alone.
Here's the
rehash:
January—Daily drawing challenge with Kimberly. I did 31 pen and ink drawings.
February—Daily watercolor painting with Kimberly. I did 28 watercolor paintings.
March—A mini comic. I made a four part mini comic in a zine format. I made hand drawings that I put into vectors with illustrator and did the layout in InDesign.
April—Camp NaNoWriMo. I wrote a 50,000 word novel called The Cataract.
May—Daily photos with Kimberly. I made a photobook from Smartphone photos. I also made a second photobook with some film I had developed during the month. So, two for one this month.
June—Painting project. I painted 20 faces. This was a weird one.
July—Camp NaNoWriMo. I wrote a second 50,000 (closer to 60) word novel called Exile.
August—Click it up a notch photo challenge. This was the dog of the year. I used my DSLR and I hated every day of this. The resulting book was not all that bad.
September—Poetry. I did this one lofi. I typed the poems with a manual typewriter and then bound the poems together into a book with some pastel paintings. A true one of a kind.
October—Inktober with Kimberly. I did 31 pen and ink drawings.
November—NaNoWriMo. I wrote the third novel of the year. This one is called: Twenty-four Hours in Vancouver.
December—A submission a day. I submitted 31 short stories to 31 different magazines.
Additionally: I read 52 books, wrote 52 blogposts, drained countless pens and filled a dozen notebooks. It's been a very prolific year.
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