This is why the internet is both wonderful and terrible, but mostly wonderful: I was blog-surfing when I came across this one. And it had a link to another blog. I'll stand by while you look this blogger's contribution to something called Sketchbook Project 2011. (Yes, I just linked to it twice. It's that awesome.)
Fantastic, right? So then I clicked on to find out what the Sketchbook Project was. And it's this super wonderful thing where you send a little bit of dollars, some people send you a sketchbook, you fill it up with fun and send it back, and it becomes part of a traveling art exhibit that I really wish was coming to my town but it's not.
I absolutely love stuff like this. I don't know why, but I do. I've been looking at the Flickr where other Sketchbook Project contributors have posted their work. Tickled, I am.
And the only bummer is that Sketchbook Project 2011 has closed. It's too late to be part of it. Except ...
...I poked around a little more and found The Fiction Project. It's the same idea: Send them $20 and they will send you a bar-coded notebook in which you write and illustrate (or whatever) a work of fiction, which also becomes part of a traveling exhibit and eventually a library. And you can get email notifications whenever someone checks out your finished work of fiction! But who cares! I sort of want to do this! I think.
To be honest, it scares the absolute hell out of me. In a good way.
I had a little conversation with myself when I found this. I mean, I could buy a notebook for way less money and just do this for myself. Aren't I giving in to my problematic impulsiveness again? But! But! This has a deadline. And a feeling of being part of something. Not just me being a dork for no reason -- it will be me being a dork with a group.
Also, it's not quite as intense as NaNoWriMo and its 50,000 words (!) in a month, which didn't cost anything, but which I failed to do.
So I think I'm going to do it. Worst case is that I overpaid for a notebook. And it wouldn't be the first time for that.
Do it! It sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteJess
Oh god what have you DONE TO ME! Just signed up. Crazy. Never written a word in my life before other than blawwwwwwging. But I like Moleskin notebooks...and I now have a 'writing room' which needs to be written in. Nay, it demands it....;-) x
ReplyDeleteYAYYY!!! I was hoping I'd coax (trick?) at least one other person into being as crazy as I am!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteam in a shitstorm of PMS and backed up writing and death in the outlaw family and missing meetings at work and this has been on my mind and I want/NEED to do. what do I do?
ReplyDeleteLike the Nike people say, baby: Just Do It.
ReplyDelete(Also feel free to send email rants. Sorry for the suckfest.) xo
am intrigued...
ReplyDeletei'll trade sketchbooks with you. for free. tho' you can't send me one with lines....(clearly, i know nothing about how this works).
ReplyDeleteJ -- I will totally do the sketchbook trade with you after I do this Fiction Project Craziness that I'm now signed up for. I'd be beyond excited to have one of your sketchbooks!
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