A popular activity in November is for writers to participate in NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month. A friend of mine on Facebook offered up a different challenge for artists: if a picture is worth a thousand words, then instead of writing a 50,000 word novel in a month, how about creating 50 pieces of art in a month? Here are the rules:

  1. The challenge begins on November 1st and ends at midnight (local time) on Wednesday, November 30th.
  2. To “win” the challenge the artist must complete 50 brand new pieces of art (i.e. finishing something already started before November 1 doesn’t count) in those 30 days.
  3. There are no limits/requirements as to size, medium, or subject matter.
  4. The artist must post each completed piece on their blog or other publicly-viewable site and be willing to professionally own up to it (this is the quality control bit of the challenge).

I don’t know that I’ll be able to succeed with this challenge, given the number of other very time-consuming projects going on ’round here, but I’ll give it a shot. I can’t say that anything will be much more elevated than a doodle on a napkin, but I can only try.

I’ve created a forum as a place to own up to the “art” I will be inflicting on an unsuspecting world. Click here if you dare.

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