{"id":1625,"date":"2018-04-02T18:59:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2018-04-02T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T23:08:19","slug":"almost-but-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Almost But Not Quite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Woman<\/a>I set a goal to create a postcard every day of March, focusing especially on using resources from the Digital Public Library of America<\/a> (DPLA). It was a great way to explore the resources before doing a session that included talking about DPLA. But…I did the talk last week and that was that. Four days at the end of March\u00a0without postcards. The holiday weekend had arrived, and I wanted a digital break. I played with my paper cutter and started moving irises in the front garden. I baked a coffee cake and cooked one of our hams in the crock pot for Easter. I played Minecraft.<\/p>\n

A CLMOOC Postcard Remix<\/a> was the impetus for my personal challenge, and I’ve heard from at least one CLMOOCer that she received the postcard I sent. It is fun to make those kinds of analog connections with people. And having an online tool to print and mail the cards was cool. I can almost get rid of my color printer.<\/p>\n

I’m not too upset that I didn’t get the last four done. I accomplished my mission to learn more about DPLA. And I did most of the work using free tools, especially the Preview tool that is part of my OS. Check out all the postcards here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What’s Next?<\/h3>\n

There are always challenges that support creativity. This month, the CLMOOC is participating in Illomo<\/a>, a daily drawing challenge. Camp NanoWriMo<\/a> has been emailing me about their April session. I am interested in a daily writing practice but don’t really want to write a novel.<\/p>\n

In fact, part of the goal of the postcards was to create a habit. But, I didn’t really establish a daily habit in terms of time…I made postcards early in the morning and late at night. I did a couple catch up posts with several postcards. But, creating postcards was part of my life for most of the month of March.<\/p>\n

So, how did I do it? I put it on the list each day, even when I was traveling. (Actually, it was a little easier to do it on the road because hotel rooms come with few chores or distractions.) But *how* did I do it: some days, the postcard started with an idea; other days it started with an image. But the main idea was that I started with an intention so I opened the laptop and created a postcard. The topics came from the landscape around me: women’s history month, pi day, baseball.<\/p>\n

So, can I do the same with writing? The postcards felt like they were low pressure: an image with some text could happen pretty quickly, something more interactive like the author map, took a little longer. Writing means more somehow, particularly if it is going to be published on the blog: drafting, editing, linking.<\/p>\n

I am already a day behind as I write this on April 2. But, I am committed to writing over the course of the next month.<\/p>\n

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