A Juror Must Fold … by Kathleen McClung.A Plumber’s Guide to Light by Jesse Bertron.The Death of a Migrant Worker by Gil Arzola.I Will Pass Even to Acheron by Amanda Newell.
Imago, Dei by Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose.Visiting Her in Queens … by Michael Mark.The Morning You Saw … by CooXooEii Black.“Six Senryu from the Kitchen” by Sharon Ferrante.“Outside Quang Tri City, 1968” by Bruce Weigl.“Something Beautiful” by Emily Montgomery.“Birth Name as Alternate Ending” by Carson Wolfe.“My Scooter Goes Fast Down the Hill” by Elizabeth Dozier Moshman.“Mother, Mother Ocean” by Kelly Grace Thomas.Pick up a few items and see what you can do only using that. Having too many options tends to stop us from getting started. The point is to find creativity within restrictions. Foraging and dumpstring are permitted (as long as they are permitted in your area = this is your responsibility to check up first).Maybe somebody in the group knows exactly the thing you’d like to learn and you might have some skill you can share with them. Trading of skills is also highly encouraged. Trading is fine – if somebody in the group or elsewhere has something you need and is willing to trade for something you have, you’re allowed to do that.If you run out of something you need to figure out another way to solve it. There are a few simple rules we want you to follow: We’re here to cheer you on! What are the rules? You’re also most welcome to try out something new that you have wanted to do for a long time, but didn’t have the time for or didn’t dare to do earlier.
All kinds of creative pursuits are welcome here. Which creative pursuits are welcome?Īnything creative goes! It doesn’t matter if you’re a musician, film maker, writer, love to draw, do paper crafts, sew, knit, paint, make pottery, love welding, carpentry, upcycling or garden design. In the group you can ask for ideas and suggestions if you can’t come up with anything or just set out your own goal and use the group as your accountability partner – a place where you can share your progress and struggles with others. That’s what this challenge can help you with. Getting started is usually the hardest part. What we should do is to get started – to do something with what we already have. We tend to gather a lot of possessions, buy more and more materials and tools that sit on shelves, in cupboards and drawers while we try to figure out the perfect project to use them for. This is the main idea behind the project.
This is what the Creative October Challenge 2021 is all about: Being creative with what you have. I picked up some old fragments of songs I had started to write and finished them. I went out into the forest to find materials that I could use for crafts. If I ran out of thread of one color I would have to choose another. Needless to say, I got a lot more done that month than I had for months and I really found new inspiration in trying to make things without feeling the need to buy certain materials or tools to get it done. That’s when I decided to restrict what I was buying and set off time after work to try out different crafts techniques, play music, take photos and much more. I had been gathering up so much stuff for crafts and instruments and equipment for making music, but I was rarely doing anything with it. I wanted to see how I could find some new sparks of creativity through restricting what I was buying and only use materials I already owned. In 2015 I decided to challenge myself with a one month long creative no-buy challenge. The Creative October Challenge is running for the fifth time in a row! (Well, sixth actually if counting the time I did it on my own.) I’m writing this post in English since this challenge has been around for several years on my old platform and has participants from all over the world.
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