Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Friday, 12 September 2014
255 - An Act of Heresy
Day 255. I have to admit that this Daily Create project has really caused me to spend less time on my main blog. I'm ok with that, although I do miss taking the time so sit and write whatever is on my mind over there. I do think that writing long form blog posts is still a creative act so I'm cross posting a link here to my main blog to a post I wrote today and claiming it as today's daily create..
Friday, 31 January 2014
031 - A Sesquipedalian Fairy Tale
Day 31. Today I'm publishing something that I actually made a while ago but never formally released publicly. Several years ago I attended a workshop for teaching English skills and the task set for us by the presenter was to write a couple of paragraphs of a fairy tale using the biggest words we could.
I enjoyed the task so much that I went home and finished the whole story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and filled it full of the biggest, longest words I could think of. And then I used Adobe InDesign to make it into an eBook, just for fun.
Anyway, if you're interested, you can click this link to get an ePub version of the story that you can download and read on an eBook reader.
Thursday, 23 January 2014
023 - Write Like Me
Day 23. Today's create is a downloadable TrueType font, based on my own handwriting. Using an app called iFontmaker, I created a full set of 98 glyphs, which includes upper and lower case alphabets, numbers and symbols. You can download the TrueType .ttf file, install it into your font collection and then enjoy typing with the same messy handwriting that my teachers criticised me for all through school! Cool huh?
Just click this link to go to the download page and get a copy. And seriously, if you do end up installing it, I'd love to hear from you in the comments. And of course, why not grab a copy of iFontmaker and have a go at making your own... It's really quite easy.
Just click this link to go to the download page and get a copy. And seriously, if you do end up installing it, I'd love to hear from you in the comments. And of course, why not grab a copy of iFontmaker and have a go at making your own... It's really quite easy.
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
001 - This Blog
Welcome to my Daily Create project for 2014.
I've done a couple of "project 365" photo challenges over the last couple of years and have generally quite enjoyed doing them. I like the idea of challenging myself to have the discipline to do something every day for a year, and although taking a daily photo is fun, I thought it might be interesting to expand on that idea a little. I wondered what else I might do every day for a year instead of just taking a photo.
So I asked for some advice on Twitter on what else might be good to do and I got lots of interesting suggestions. Thanks to everyone who offered an idea.
In the end I decided to try and just do a "daily create". Make something every day for a year... it could be writing, a drawing, a painting, a song, a poem, a story, a blog post, a screencast, a video (and yes, I'm sure there will still be lots of photos). It could be a new recipe, a dance, an idea, anything... so long as I can make something new exist each day and somehow document it here on this blog.
Life should be an ongoing act of daily creation.
Each creative thing might be something born digital, but it could also be a real physical thing too. The important thing is that every day for a year I make SOMETHING. It's open ended. I could learn to do something, make something, be something. I can use whatever tools and processes I like. I'm pretty lazy so I'm planning on coming up with some ways to automate the process with things like IFTTT and other digital workflows.
It should be interesting and a bit of fun.
Today is Day 001 and I've created this blog to act as the container for the next 364 things. As always, on this and every subsequent post, your comments are very welcome (and are what provide some of the motivation to continue with a project like this!)
Ok... let's do this!
I've done a couple of "project 365" photo challenges over the last couple of years and have generally quite enjoyed doing them. I like the idea of challenging myself to have the discipline to do something every day for a year, and although taking a daily photo is fun, I thought it might be interesting to expand on that idea a little. I wondered what else I might do every day for a year instead of just taking a photo.
So I asked for some advice on Twitter on what else might be good to do and I got lots of interesting suggestions. Thanks to everyone who offered an idea.
In the end I decided to try and just do a "daily create". Make something every day for a year... it could be writing, a drawing, a painting, a song, a poem, a story, a blog post, a screencast, a video (and yes, I'm sure there will still be lots of photos). It could be a new recipe, a dance, an idea, anything... so long as I can make something new exist each day and somehow document it here on this blog.
Life should be an ongoing act of daily creation.
Each creative thing might be something born digital, but it could also be a real physical thing too. The important thing is that every day for a year I make SOMETHING. It's open ended. I could learn to do something, make something, be something. I can use whatever tools and processes I like. I'm pretty lazy so I'm planning on coming up with some ways to automate the process with things like IFTTT and other digital workflows.
It should be interesting and a bit of fun.
Today is Day 001 and I've created this blog to act as the container for the next 364 things. As always, on this and every subsequent post, your comments are very welcome (and are what provide some of the motivation to continue with a project like this!)
Ok... let's do this!
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