I don’t know about you, but that February lasted just a little too long for me. It feels like March is really when 2012 is going to kick off, not to mention daylight savings and The First Day of Spring and spring break…etc etc! There’s also a pretty funny trend about March that I’ve noticed: people tend to use that month to challenge themselves to do things.
I mean, beyond March Madness (SO EXCITED), I’ve seen people participating in Mustache March, 30 Days of Lists*,Cory Jackson’s Change Write Now gears up for a second go-round, and my friend Jessica is doing her own 30 Days of Books personal challenge.
The challenge I am accepting, Barney Stinson style, was introduced to me by Katy Upperman and organized by this lovely Kiwi:
If you don’t want to follow the link, here’s the challenge breakdown. Take an image inspired by the prompt for each day and post it on Twitter, using the #MarchPhotoADay hashtag.
Fun, right? And pretty darned easy. I’m looking at it as a great way to do something creative every day BESIDES writing. Sometimes changing my thinking, ever so slightly, is the best way for me to get re-inspired.
So! Here was my Day 1 photo, “Up.”
(This isn’t one of those tortured artist pictures or anything. This is literally the view of my hotel room’s ceiling as I lay in bed yesterday. With the awesome filters on instagram, the shadow looked quite ominous and cool, I thought.)
What about you?? Are you challenging yourself to anything this March? Do you know of any other fun challenges? Do share! And if you’re doing the pic-a-day challenge, let me know!
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I <3 you. And all your blog posts.
No March-specific challenges for me. The blog has 2012 bookish challenges though. :)
I love a year-long challenge! Totally counts :) And I <3 You!
So glad you’re doing this challenge too, Sarah. I’m looking at it the same way: another method of stretching my creativity. It’s already been fun to see how people interpret the prompts. Happy Instagram-ing! :)
Ooh, and I’m LOVING your new header!
Thanks for linking to the challenge, Katy! And thank you, the new header makes me so happy!!
Oh cool! I’m going to see what all these challenges are about, but I love the photo one. Maybe I’ll do it and post to my Tumblr. :) Definitely passing it on to the Sister though since she’s an instagrammer.
The contest definitely made me learn a lot more about Instagram too, which is good! It’s a lot more powerful and social than I realized :)
This challenge sounds fun and a great way to tickle the creativity buttons :D
I am doing ChangeWriteNow again and looking forward to it! Oh that and March is the month I challenge myself to go the extra scary step in my novel…
Oooh, good luck Elodie!!
That’s a cool challenge! I think I’ll focus on prepping for the April AtoZ challenge instead of picking something for this month! :)
I wish Instagram would come to Android. *shakes fist*
I’m trying to finish my draft in March. We’ll see.
Oh no, they don’t have Android?! It’s got to be a matter of time. GOOD LUCK on the draft!!