I love social media challenges. 30-day Instagram prompts or one-word prompts, Meet The Author prompts, etc. Inktober is no exception. Especially since I love art, looking at it and buying it and adding it my wish list.

Every year for the past few years now a Writetober challenge has been released. The idea is to write one 50-word story a day and include the word from that prompt.

This year I am (finally?) combing the two. My default is to say that I’m an overachiever. I mean, I decided this last minute. I didn’t write either of the prompts down ahead of time. Or plan anything out before. My time could better be spent prepping for NanNoWriMo. I did just start a new part-time job last week, and Ant and I are finally feeling better and settling back into a new routine of home life.

But really, I’m tired of overthinking what to post on my social media accounts.

Trip related or not trip related or life related or just a for fun post that I want to exist on my feed because I want it to. And so I’m just combining my enjoyment of doodling and writing stories and sharing them on my writergram.

So here is a peek into my sketches for last week’s and this week’s prompts. Enjoy!

Ant helping me figure out how Carlos the crab would hold the glasses:

Oftentimes what it looks like with a cat co-worker:

The full-page spreads from last week’s doodles:

The spiderwebs and spiders were a just for fun doodle 🙂

A peek at this week’s doodles:

Josephine the armadillo is from last week, but I didn’t want her to be on the page all alone, so she joined this week’s doodles.

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Let’s be brave enough to share our work-in-progresses and out favorite lines and scenes and doodles that don’t make the cut, but still took some of our time a piece of our heart and soul and mind to create.

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This is the first post in The Darling Files. Inspired by two favorite writers, Callie and Rachel. You can read more about what this means here and here.

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Writing Process Notes:

10/16/22

// 7:47pm-8:37pm. dining room table, listening to my Drew and Ellie Holcomb playlist. Wrote the post, uploaded the photos, and published it 🙂 Shared in on the writergram and writer FB page, updated the mlkshke link. woot woot! WORDS: 2,191.