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Challenge #14 says to abandon the familiar and follow the call of novelty to where it may lead.
It's not true that the older you get, the less things that are new to you, but it does sometimes mean that having to figure out where the novelty is can be harder. For example, I've been illustrating the signs for one of my programs with trying to draw things according to reference for several months now, which is new, in the sense that I haven't been trying to do it before, but isn't new in that I've been a dabbler in drawing for a significant amount of time now. (I haven't taken any pictures of them to share, because doing so suggests they might be something more than the ephemera that I need them to be so I can do them without having a complete freeze-up panic about how it has to be perfect if it's going to go where other people can see it for more than the few minutes it exists on the sign.) I occasionally think that I'd like to learn stenography, so much so that I have a keyboard and software that I can so that with, but I haven't actually put the effort-effort into doing it, even though it's something I'd like to do. (The keys are pretty close to each other, and I'm having a little trouble getting my brain to work with me to make the right chords. It'll come with practice, I'm sure.)
( There's more things to explore. )
Challenge #14
Try something new.
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Do you read fic? Then how about writing a little 'missing moment' scene, such as the day after Jedi Master Qui-Gon Junn describes his ever-eager Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi as merely competent in Phantom Menace? Dip a toe into a community related to your interest to share insights, write a ship/fandom/character manifesto or just plain gab. If you listen to podcasts, explore one in a new fandom.
How about making icons or vids? Felling fannish broadens horizons, so remix your own fic, bake that Death Star cake, crochet an awesome Kermit The Frog cap or write an unpopular cjaracter/ You'll get creative juices flowing in cosplaying or planking to the tune of I'm Just Ken.
It's not true that the older you get, the less things that are new to you, but it does sometimes mean that having to figure out where the novelty is can be harder. For example, I've been illustrating the signs for one of my programs with trying to draw things according to reference for several months now, which is new, in the sense that I haven't been trying to do it before, but isn't new in that I've been a dabbler in drawing for a significant amount of time now. (I haven't taken any pictures of them to share, because doing so suggests they might be something more than the ephemera that I need them to be so I can do them without having a complete freeze-up panic about how it has to be perfect if it's going to go where other people can see it for more than the few minutes it exists on the sign.) I occasionally think that I'd like to learn stenography, so much so that I have a keyboard and software that I can so that with, but I haven't actually put the effort-effort into doing it, even though it's something I'd like to do. (The keys are pretty close to each other, and I'm having a little trouble getting my brain to work with me to make the right chords. It'll come with practice, I'm sure.)
( There's more things to explore. )
