It's All a Work-in-Progress
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” – Paul Valery
Purpose
The purpose of this challenge is to creatively get out of your own way, get on your own side, and engage whatever version of yourself is best at creating a five-star, banger post in the month of February 2024.
Whom Is This For?
This challenge is for those who craft content, dreemers, hivians, and whomever else wants to level up their enjoyment by using design thinking to create one high-quality post over the course of three weeks.
This is an opportunity for those who tend to put aside their creativity for the more practical supper-making, deadline-chasing kind of living. But for the first three weeks of February, we invite you to take a moment from running past and avoiding the rabbit holes to slip into one. You read this right! Grant yourself the grace to let your mind ruminate and expand upon an idea with generous boundaries and community support.
What is the challenge?
You’ll craft a Cover Story, an example of your work that makes your profile shine, a post that makes you feel good every time you see it. Creating your cover story using design thinking, as we will introduce it during this challenge, is no different than writing while ambitious, except it offers a replicable framework to leverage your effort and do your future creator-self a favor time and again.
Go for a post unlike anything you've ever done before. Let's engage in whatever version of ourselves is best at creating that showboat post. Let’s dial up the pleasure of making something to share with the world, in a way that is not perfect, but is signature – a gem.
It's your cover story, so anything can be the hero or feature topic. It could be a work of literature, journalism, visual or even performing arts. Shine a bright light on the hero on the podium and tell us the story, the same as a cover story of a magazine or e-zine.
Breakthroughs Happen When We Work Together!
Creative support is available five days a week to build community and encourage you to build your prize post.
We’ll start with a “soft open” on Friday, 2 February, which is the information session. Saturday, 3 February will be the orientation for the challenge. Then, starting Monday, 5 February and throughout the following three weeks, the CWH Founder @alessandrawhite and the crew of Creative Work Hour will host free creative support sessions every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 12-1pm EST in the CWH Discord server.
Choose two sessions per week you can attend for the three-week challenge. It’s okay to attend more, just mark your calendars!
February is here, so consider the challenge issued! Start looking back at things you've started and abandoned, or maybe look to an idea you never got around to developing.
Whatever you choose to work on, you’ll grow your craft, make friends, and experience creativity at a whole other level…the Creative Work Hour way! Much Love!! ~AW 😘
Many thanks to dear Hivians @dreemsteem and @shadowspub for making this February 2024 collaboration dreem come true! 💝✨
Thankie to @bobbyb58 for crafting the "rabbit hole" lingo. Heeheehee!😽
Illustration prompted ad nauseum by @alessandrawhite using DAL•LE–3 by license.
Graphic Design for the CWH x DreemPort Challenge banner by @alessandrawhite.
