Tag: Art

NaNoWriMo Fail

On By MaryIn 2025, Art, NaNoWriMo 2025, Random, WritingLeave a comment

Welp. Whoops? There were extra appointments and ER visits than planned for the month so that quickly fell through. I think it’s safe to say everything for 2025 has just been a complete fail on my part.

But, next year will be another chance to try, try again! I’m in the process of setting up a new challenge on even months for 2026. I’m going to try to alternate between an art and a writing challenge. I will start fairly easy in February with one painting a week. Since April is Poetry Month, I will attempt to write daily or mostly daily poems – maybe at least 5 a week. For June, I will complete a sketch every other day (15 total) of original characters, and in August I will write one short story every other day involving those 15 sketches.

Most of that shouldn’t be awful. The months where I know I have a lot of plans get skipped with the every other month idea, except for February, which should be relatively light work. It’s later in the year that things might fall through. October is known by some people as Inktober. I don’t know if I will do a full Inktober, or 30 days minus my birthday, or every other day yet. But the goal is to complete a drawing and then ink it. And I will shift the novel writing to December, but with the holidays and everything else going on, it seems very likely that will fail too, so I don’t know if I want to make an extra short novella or shorten the daily word allotment or do that every other day also… So for those last two months, I might alter the plans… or just fall through completely!

But, the fails happen! And that’s okay. We’ll see how next year goes.

(Hopefully better. I mean, it can’t be worse, right?) (Isn’t that the magic phrase to make it worse though?) (…fuck)

Sidequests Week 34

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My sidequests for this week admittedly underwent a little shifting. What I ended up with included taking a long shower or bath, drawing or painting a picture, and having some tea or a warm drink.

I find long showers very relaxing, so that wasn’t very hard to do, and that sidequest was knocked out quite early in the week. All it takes is a very long day of work to motivate me to do something like this one though.

I have been working on a drawing off and on for the past month or so, but haven’t spent a lot of time on it. I honestly did not spend a lot of time on it this week either, but instead of starting something new, I forced myself to sit with it and make some corrections. I may have made it worse instead. Hrm. It feels a little like cheating to make that how I meet this sidequest, but I haven’t felt very artfully motivated for awhile now. Of course, that’s all the more reason to force myself to work on something – you really shouldn’t just do things only when you feel like it.

It’s been really hot where I am – the weather is very regularly in the triple digits. So having tea is probably the last thing I would normally want to do. But when I had gone to the farmer’s market before, I had bought some loose leaf lavender chai tea. So I decided to have that. I have a sweet tooth, so I dropped about 8 cubes of sugar into the cup. The spice blend was quite potent. I like it quite a lot, and might have to remember to buy a full size bag the next time I visit their booth.