BUT WHAT DO I MAKE?! -- some zine ideas!

[taichara]

So you want to make a zine! And you sit down with your pen or your mouse or your phone and --

-- and your brain skids to a halt.

What should I make a zine about? DDD8

Sure, the pat kind of answer is "everything"; but that's not really helpful when you're trying to brainstorm or get out of a creative rut or making your first zine and looking for a bit of direction.

So, here is a (very much non-complete!) list of possible zine topics to maybe get the ol neurons firing ~


Creative Stuff

• a how-to guide (for most anything!)


• recipe collection


• gardening tips


• original fiction


• original fiction collection


• original art

Creative Fannish Stuff

• a fanfic


• multiple fanfics!


• drabble collection


• personal fandom anecdotes


• meta (worldbuilding or otherwise)


• a fannish manifesto


• kinds of media you like


• kinds of media you don't like


• art!

Personal

• experience on a vacation


• experience of a workplace


• your favorite things


• Something Cool That Happened


• a travel journal


• talk about your pets!


• how you're feeling now


• how you used to feel


• hopes for the future


• a favorite place


• something you want to warn people about

... but honestly, it really is "Everything"

• a historical figure you like


• a historical figure you don't like


• advice you'd like to share, or something you learned


• cool animals


• cool plants


• cool places!


• Things That Happened (historical or otherwise)


• media reviews


• make a game!


• the weather


• fossils


• food (what kind? from where? historical or otherwise?)


• ... really, though, anything you want to express, seriously

And of course these aren't cut-and-dried category types either. Smash things together! It's all good!