Sunshine Revival Challenge #1

[elyusion]

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Because I'm obsessed with making lists, especially to-do lists, I actually do have a list of well-defined goals to finish by the end of this month. I'm only going to share the ones I'm pretty sure I'll complete, because it's really embarrassing saying you're going to do something and then not doing it.

• Translate 5 chapters of that thing I'm translating.
  
• Translate one smaller thing, like a one-shot or interview or something.
  
• Finish one (1) singular illustration.
  
• Finish one book of original English-language fiction.
  
  • To the readers here this probably seems crazy to have to add as a goal, but I usually use comics to fulfill my fiction needs, and read nonfiction otherwise. For my future job I need to read more fiction in my native language though, so here I am. Although, I'm also told I need to be reading contemporary fiction, to know what readers expect now... instead what I'm reading is from the 60s and 70s. I have a problem, I think.

My goals for the second half of the year? I just want my driver's license and to graduate college TT I know I'll hate having a job too (when I had one for a while I was like "so... is this just it for the rest of my life?" and my sanity meter started draining, but I went back to school before it could empty), but I'm so over school. And I would like to go to the places I want when I want! Looking forward to that!! I don't live in a place where depending on public transportation is feasible for an exciting life.

As for the creative prompt, I had started a drawing (completely unrelated to this event, but I was going to share it regardless), but I wasn't able to finish it in time. I'm trying to figure out what's causing me to be such a slow artist lately - lately meaning the past 5 years or so - but I hope I can do at least one of the creative prompts. I know there's not actually any time limit, so maybe I'll do them all even if it takes a while... I still haven't even finished the Snowflake Challenge though. ^^; I forgot about it until just now, although it's in one of my many to-do lists.

Here's to hoping I'm able to accomplish everything I want. 🙏🏾

Comments

[muscle_wizard]

I hope you do too, I believe in you <3

[mekare]

Hey best of luck with your art goals. Sounds like you have a lot going on, so it's not a surprise your energy for art may be low. If you‘d like some gentle encouragement/prompting, check out drawesome.