Congratulations! It was only a matter of time before someone picked you up. Your work is beautiful and you have worked very hard!

Hey there! Im from Austin/dripping springs. I know a couple of people from Waco who participate in the Austin SCBWI chapter. Are you an SCBWI member?

I will definitely keep this in mind! Still deciding what Im going to do.

I used to make two calendars per year (for 10 years!) for my job when I was a graphic designer. It was very tedious and they are kind of expensive to make if you go the traditional route. They were printed on an old school printing press and I designed the layouts from scratch in InDesign, but I bet there are easier ways (hopefully cheaper ways) to do it now using automatic templates and stuff and print on demand. I think Kiri Leonard Ostergaard (not sure if I spelled that right) did a unicorn calendar a while back. You could google and see if she posted any info about how she did it. If I recall she did a kickstarter to pay for it.

@Phil-Cullen good advice! Its so easy to get wrapped up in something because everyone is doing it and then you forget to evaluate if it is actually moving you forward. I had the same experience with the 100 day project only I didn't make it nearly as far as you. One of my good illustrator friends did an amazing 100 day project a few years ago that i have always been so enamored with. She recommended doing one, but emphasized that she does NOT think you need to go all the way to 100, or post every day and she said she tried to repeat it and didn’t even make it to 10. I had no idea she had started one and quit. I think we are much less aware of other peoples failures than we are of our own. To me, she just seemed better than me. Like she had some magic inside of her that made her more capable of finishing a project like that. But everyone fails at stuff. Try, fail, try, fail, try, fail, try, fail, try, succeed, try, fail.

@Coreyartus you hit the nail right on the head. Thanks for weighing in and for cheering everyone on!

@Susan-Marks Jake has mentioned before that you can modify the posting schedule to you own needs and mentioned the “half marathon approach” where you are posting less often. He always emphasizes that the important thing is being consistent so if that means you can only do it once or twice a week you should decide ahead of time what days you will post and try to stick to that schedule to keep the consistency.

@Heather-Boyd thanks so much for sharing! Ill do something. I just am not quite sure yet what it will be. I look forward to seeing how you decide to approach it. I think using it to experiment and have fun is good advice.

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen thanks Marsha ️ ... so are you!

@Aleksey all good points! Maybe I will just use the prompts and do my own thing. I was excited when I read them. I have never seen Inktober poetry! That’s kind of cool. And don’t worry, the story does have a happy ending!