Abbey Ryan has painted a small oil painting every day since September 23, 2007. There are other painters who have also taken on the challenge of creating a painting a day, and others have set the challenge of drawing in their sketchbooks every single day for a period of one year.
NaNoWriMo is going on right now during the month of November. It’s an approach to novel writing in which participants began writing November 1st and their goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight on the 30th of November.
To Have a Great Idea, Have Lots of Them
I’ve written in the past on this blog about Thomas Edison’s idea quota: basically, he had a set number of ideas he had to come up with each week. Even though lots of the ideas he came up with were pretty lousy, he also came up with a lot of very successful ideas. You can follow Edison’s model by setting an idea quota for yourself.
“Idea a Day” is a website founded in London in August 2000 by music executive David Owen and others, in which one idea is published a day. As well as perusing the ideas, you are encouraged to submit your own and share them. If you subscribe to their feed you’ll have one idea delivered to you every day. You can then use that idea as a jumping-off point for your own daily idea. Here are two ideas I found on the “Idea a Day” site which I thought were clever:
“Addatax to all unhealthy foods so that they cost more than healthy alternatives. A healthy diet would be relatively cheaper than an unhealthy diet. Then use the tax revenues to pay for more and better health education and sporting facilities.” - Day 3013 by Bounce