#kimwerker

[chuckandstan]

Shortly after this presentation was published, I was lucky enough to stumble upon it. It’s very inspiring, especially  if you are worried about failing, or are convinced you can’t create anything worth while. It really helped me on my journey, and in 2015 I started a ‘yearofmaking’. The point was to make something, anything, on a daily basis. Well, I fell off that bandwagon, several times, actually, Lol. I had days where I was discouraged - and those are the days where it’s so important that we push through! Obviously, I couldn’t push through some of them, and that’s ok. It happens. I would tell myself, ‘no one wants to see what I’m creating’ - pssssh... Really? Why do I care if someone wants or doesn’t want to see it? I shouldn’t, and as my confidence gains, I’m coming around to caring less about what other people think about what I create.  

So, I’m determined. I am going to re-start (for easily the dozenth time) my yearofmaking. No excuses, no worried about what other people think. This. Is. It. 

[sasquatchbooks]

"Perfection isn't the goal; that would be crazy. The goal is to take the ugly voice's power away so it stops holding us back."

Kim Piper Werker, author of Make It Mighty Ugly

[sasquatchbooks]

Prompts-o-Rama

Are you trapped in a serious case of NaNoWriMo writer's block? Try these prompts that Kim Werker offers in her new book, Make It Mighty Ugly. These prompts are a great way to jumpstart any project, whether it's a novel, a painting, or a crocheted monster that needs a backstory. There’s a hill over there. Go look on the other side of it. What do you see? It’s three in the morning; there’s a knock on your window. It is freezing. What do you do about it? That’s not a monkey; it’s a robot! Uh oh, the basement’s flooded. What now? Around the corner is an act of crime. And just then, you hear a babbling creek. Hey, what’s in that secret notebook? That’s not a sunrise; it’s a sunset. How might this go better without a sprained ankle? Mmm. Delicious, delicious brains. These brains taste so ____. The music playing in the background is almost too loud to make out. You squint and hold on to the back of the bar stool and try to figure out why it sounds so familiar. You open your eyes and see them. There’s a three-legged dog running down the middle of the street. You think _____. What would Buffy do? The coach is shouting in the dugout. You can’t quite make out the words, but you think she’s yelling _____. And then a cat saunters in. What if this all were happening in the nuclear winter? Can this project be personified? How does it taste? Turn right ninety degrees. Inject some make-believe: a magic wand, a Pegasus, a space alien, a talking toad. Suddenly, it’s all covered in gold. The raft starts to drift toward shore.

[sasquatchbooks]

When you have no idea how to even think of what to make, ASK FOR DIRECTIONS. Find a kid, preferably—one of your own or someone else’s that you see relatively frequently, so they can hold you to your promise to make the thing—and ask them what they’d like you to make. Make no promise to them other than that you’ll make it . . .

Kim Piper Werker, author of Make It Mighty Ugly

[sasquatchbooks]

"Whatever creative demons you're looking to battle, other people have been there, and I bet I've been there too. Sometimes I've been wounded in fighting my demons, sometimes I've felt sure I wouldn't survive the fight, and in all cases I came out not only alive, but happier. It's your turn now. Take a deep breath, sharpen your sword.”

Kim Piper Werker, author of Make it Mighty Ugly