Creativity in Public: Tools, Essays, and Experiments
Being Bad at Hobbies as a Creative Strategy (and Zine Again!)
How to practice relaxing expectations around the results of creative work by pursuing hobbies we aren’t good at. Also, new zine!
Another Zine Thing!
It’s time for another ZINE THING! Bring your low expectations and enjoy another minizine of emotional self-portraits. I also rounded up some places to submit your zines for publishing and/or distribution. Let’s go write zines!
Image: Biscuit Driver © 2026 by Ann Cooper
Zine Thing!
I can't draw—I have no training and less talent—but I made a minizine of some of my drawings, anyway! This post has a free pdf of my zine and a roundup of resources on zines and zine making.
Image: Logs Don’t Need to Smile © 2025 by Ann Cooper