#(and i am yearning for the low-stress mildly-creative exercise of just browsing through pretty stock photos)

[fictionadventurer]

Guys, I’m getting so excited for the Inklings Challenge.

#doing some blog housekeeping in preparation for the 9/1 launch #finding stock photos for an autumn header brought back so many feelings from last year #the autumnal atmosphere of excitement #the creative choices made at the spur of the moment to get this up and running as fast as possible #the joy of outlining the rules of the game that other people will get to play with me #it's so fun and something i don't think i've experienced since elementary school #setting it in autumn wound up being an excellent choice because it fits so much of that back-to-school excitement #that once elevated this time of year for me #now i want to look up so many stock photos and create so many prompts #(can't i just give fun picture and moodboard prompts? those always work for me.) #(and i am yearning for the low-stress mildly-creative exercise of just browsing through pretty stock photos) #still not sure if i can follow through with the september writing exercises possibility #(unless anyone has writing exercises they want to share?) #and i'm a bit nervous about how the symbols requirement will be received but i just gotta go for it and hope people can get creative #also it is just wild to me how quickly this was thrown together last year #i posted last year's announcement on 9/25! #for a challenge that started on the first! #absolutely insane that it went as well as it did under those conditions #i'm hoping this year will only be benefitted by the additional time instead of losing momentum over the longer sign-up period