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Sorry I forgot to post a list for September. I’ll try to do better in future.

24 Hours Comic Book Day

This is a creative challenge repeating annualls on the first weekend of October
What's the challenge? Create a 24 pages comic in 24 hours.

Inktober

This is an annual art challenge, running from October 1st to 31st
What's the challenge?  Draw ink images. Suggestion is one per day, but any regular schedule you pick works.
Where, how to take part: Post anywhere, using the tag “inktober”. The official website www.inktober.com has an optional prompt list.

Drawloween

This is a creative challenge running annually from October 1st to 31st
What's the challenge? Draw Halloween-themed images, ideally one per day
Where and how to take part: Post anywhere, using the tag “drawloween”. There’s an official page with a prompt list at drawlloween.blogspot.com/

Owltober

This is an annual art challenge, running from October 1st to 31st
What's the challenge?  Draw owls, ideally one per day.
Where, how to take part: Post anywhere, using the tag “owltober”.

Goretober

This is an annual drawing challenge running from October 1st to 31st.
What's the challenge? Draw gore, ideally each day
Where, how to take part: Post anywhere using the tag “goretober”

OC-tober

"OC" standing for "Original Character" here. This is a drawing challenge running annually throughout September
What's the challenge? Draw your OCs, ideally one image per day.
Where, how to take part: Post anywhere using the tag "oc-tober".
(apparently originated here: semmyjart.tumblr.com/post/1654… )

Monthly Challenges

• EMG Sketch Fest - October 5-7, noon to noon Alaskan time - official website www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/
• WritingChallenge.org - official website writingchallenge.org
• Deviantart Colour Schemes Challenge - official website www.deviantart.com/colour-schemes

Weekly Challenges

• Illustration Friday - official website illustrationfriday.com
• Thimbleful Thursday - official website thimblefulthursday.wordpress.com

31 Days 31 Plays

This is an annual creative challenge to write 31 plays (of at least 1 page each) in the month of August.
Official website: 31plays31days.com

ArtSlam

This is an art challenge running every year from June 1st to August 31st. You can take part in one, two, or three months.
What? Draw something every day to a topic you chose yourself.
Where, how to take part: Sign up at Livejournal or Dreamwidth. There is a Tumblr, too.

August AdiPOSE

This is an art challenge running annually from August 1st to 31st
What's the challenge? Draw fat people, ideally one per day
Where/How to take part: Post anywhere, using the tag “AugustAdiPOSE”

Fawngust

This is an art challenge running annually from August 1st to 31st
What's the challende? Draw fawns and other forest animals, ideally one per day
Where/How to take part: Post anywhere, using the tag “fawngust”

Smaugust

This is an art challenge running annually from August 1st to 31st
What's the challende? Draw dragons, ideally one per day
Where/How to take part: Post anywhere, using the tag “smaugust”

Monthly challenges

Deviantart Colour Schemes Challenge

This is a monthly art challenge. In a community on DeviantArt, a
colour palette is posted, and you have time until the end of the month
to create an image using that palette.
More information at www.deviantart.com/colour-schemes

EMG Sketch Fest

This is a roughly monthly art jam running in 24 Aug at 12:00 to 26 Aug at 12:00 Alaskan time. There is a focus on
fantasy themes.
What's the deal? You can leave prompts for other people to use,
and/or draw sketches based on other people's prompts. You may not spend
more than 1 hour per sketch. (Finishing it later is cool, though.)
Where, how to take part: Sign up on the official website, www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/

WritingChallenge.org

This is a writing challenge running each month.
What's the challenge? Write at least 500 words each day.
Where, how to take part: Post on Twitter with the monthly changing tag, and insert your progress in a communal spreadsheet. More info at writingchallenge.org

Weekly challenges

Illustration Friday

This is an art challenge running weekly.
What? Create an image based on the weekly theme posted on the official website on Friday
Where, how to take part: Post the image to your own gallery, submit a link at illustrationfriday.com

Thimbleful Thursday

This is a weekly flash fiction writing challenge.
What's the challenge? Every Thursday an idiom and a target wordcount is posted for people to write a piece of flash fiction.
Where, how to take part: Prompts are posted at thimblefulthursday.wordpress.com, and posting links to your prompt fills in the comments there is appreciated.

You can find other creative challenges I know about on my website through the Creative Challenges Tag Tree
I'd also appreciate being told about challenges I don't know about.

Well, hi!

At some point I'd decided to do months journal entries about my general state of being, of course focusing on creative output. You probably noticed I haven't been keeping that up.

What's going pretty well at the moment is sketching little things. I signed up to ArtSlam and gave as my topic "drawing animals from reference to improve my foundation for making up critters", and only skipped one day sketching so far, and still averaged more than one sketch per day. (The turtles and deer are a part of that.) I am kinda getting bored of drawing critters from photos, but it helps that I can jump around the animal kingdom. After the deer and a few ponies, I'm tackling insects at the moment.

Writing is giving me more trouble. I've picked up fanfic projects I ignored for too long (as in, wrote drafts last November, then never touched them again for editing and posting), but it all still makes me anxious, and that's way worse with original ficiton. At least I finally managed to sort my fiction files, which got chaotic being split between 4thewords and Scrivener. We'll see what happens.

General state of mind is that I seem to have come, or am in the process of coming, out of a depressive slump that lasted quite a while, and am now slightly disturbed about how motivated I can be. I'm breaking personal records when it comes to regular dishwashing.

I hope everyone who reads this is doing well