ZineWriMo 2022 – Day 29 and 30

Hadass420

Nov 30

Day 29: Looking forward
Today, I finally completed my mixed media stream of consciousness zine! It's messy and funny and dark and unclear and confusing and brilliant. I'm very happy about the end result! It's made with cardboard, paper, strings, clippings from a magazine, acrylic paint, Washi tape, pen, markers, charcoal pencils, a couple of dry petals, and this colorful fabric paper thingy. I'm not exactly sure what it is. But I used as many materials as I could come up with and I like the way it looks. The text is all over the place, means nothing and everything as a good stream of consciousness should be.
More to today's prompt, as I said before, I can't really think so far ahead regarding zine plans and stuff. I only have two months of the year that I devote especially for zine-making (July and November). But I do have some plans for December, zine-related or not:
1. Post office day: I set an appointment at the post office for Thursday, December 1. I hope to send out zines to my zine friends for trades, as well as a batch to Quimby's that I was supposed to send a couple months ago but never got around to it.
2. Hanukkah bakes: This year, I really want to try making American-style doughnuts. I have a recipe I've been dying to try and I really hope I can find the right time. If my daughter has a few days off on Hanukkah, it would make for a perfect activity to do together.
3. Chag Habanot: The Holiday of Girls. This is a holiday within a holiday. It takes place on the 1st of Tevet which is like the 6th or 7th candle of Hanukkah. We never celebrated it in my family, and my in-laws never heard about it either, but I'm really trying to make it a part of our Hanukkah tradition. Last year was the first time we celebrated it and it was terrific! I really hope we get to do it again this year.
4. Further house plans: I want to get a work desk for my daughter's room so she can have a place to do her homework. I also want to reorganize the room we currently use as a storage room and see if I can make enough space to set it up as my dream zine-making studio. That requires some maneuvering and creativity, and of course time, but I really hope it will get done in December. Maybe if I have my zine-making room, it will inspire me to make more than two zines a year!

Day 30: ZineWriMo Wrap-Up:
I'm a little swamped today seeing as it's the end of the month and there's accounting stuff to take care of and all those dull and tedious thingies. But I still want to write this wrap-up, and here it is!
I love love love ZineWriMo! I had such a good time with working the prompts, working on my zine, getting in touch with zinesters (though not many, but still), doing a bunch of new things (like writing a newsletter or making a mixed-media zine), and just spreading a bunch of zine-joy to counteract the rolling mountains of shit that the universe likes to sling at us sometimes.
Here's what I accomplished this month:
1. On the first week:
- Shared photos of my zine-world, zine-making space, my typewriter and my zine ideas notebook
- Made a small post-its zine about ZineWriMo
2. On the second week:
- Research the topic of women and misogyny in the metal scene for the main article of my zine. The discovery of all these facts and bands and issues was profound and enlightening for me. When the mere fact of writing a zine teaches me so much about the topic, it makes the writing experience that much more exciting!
- Designed a badass cover for the zine
- Organized my zine material and my whole bookshelf at home
- Bought a new pair of scissors
- Bought some more zine material for my daughter and made a zine-making kit for her
3. On the third week:
- Completed the writing part of my zine, including the Twigz segment, a collage and a bunch of graphics
- Visited ZineWiki again
- Started working on the layout of my zine
4. On the fourth week:
- Completed my zine earlier than planned
- Made a perzine-style life newsletter, and loved it so much I'm seriously considering making that a regular thing. Long live The Daily H!
- Completed my daughter's photobook for the year and sent it to print
- Unveiled the cover of my new zine - Raise Your Horns! issue 2
5. The last two days:
- Completed my mixed-media stream of consciousness zine
- Made a list of future plans for my zinester life, as well as holiday plans for December (Hanukkah and Chag Habanot)
- Wrote a final wrap-up of the month, which you're reading right now!

Today, I'm also making a list of people and addresses I need to send zines to. I'm making a list for each one of them of what zines I need to send. They're not all the same as interests vary.

If you want to share some of your ZinWriMo creations with me, I would be more than willing to trade! And if you just want to read some of my zines and have nothing to trade for them except for money, you can download them from my Ko-Fi website for no more than 1 or 2 bucks. My Ko-Fi shop now also includes the brand spanking new issue of Raise Your Horns! Enjoy!

Peace, love and hit me up people, don't be shy, I want ALL of your zines!

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