I made my first zine today!! (https://heyzine.com/flip-book/1c671bff74.html#page/2) I read a Substack article about turning your Substack into zines (https://open.substack.com/pub/commonplacezines/p/why-you-should-turn-your-substack?r=6mhfpt&utm_medium=ios ) and it was the final push I needed to make one after wanting to for the whole past year.
It took me an hour to format everything, the text, images, effects, and stickers. The writing process definitely took a lot longer and I don’t really have a way to track it either, but it took me several hours over the course of three days. I put a really pretty gradient map over each page for cohesiveness (for the digital version, cause the prints are black and white). I don’t know if I’ll do anything with this zine. I’ve seen people trade the, and sell them but I’m not exactly sure how to do that. I think I might eventually open a P.O. Box and do zine trades with pen palls. That would be so so so fun.
I honestly feel really proud that I’m coming to do a lot of things I’ve been dreaming about lately. A blog, a personal website, a portfolio, digicam photography, Filofax journaling, and a zine. I feel like me from a year ago would think I’m the coolest person ever. The year felt so incredibly short but so much has happened. My hair was partially pink this year, and I’m going to school next year for the first time after five years of homeschooling. Everything feels surreal right now.
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