Zine Prompts
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- Your favorite places on campus
- Your favorite places in Boone
- Your favorite places in your hometown
- A place in your hometown that's closed down
- Mundane things that bring you joy
- Memories from elementary school
- Weird childhood memories
- Rumors at your high school
- Recurring themes in your dreams
- An unusual animal that you appreciate
- Childhood toys
- Collage your junk mail
- Collage your old shopping receipts
- Collage old shopping catalogues
- Collage discarded books — Find some in Anne Belk or the shelf outside of Wired Scholar in the Library
- Collage old assignment briefs and syllabuses
- Collage wrappers and food boxes/labels— be careful that things don't get sticky
- The changing seasons
- The mountains
- The ocean
- Fruits and vegetables
- Plants
- Insects, arachnids, invertebrates
- Space, planets, constellations
- An album or music artist you've been obsessed with
- Song lyrics that caught your attention
- Favorite shots in a film
- A film/album/media you love to hate
- Your favorite Oscar/award show snubs
- Describe a film you haven't seen in a while from memory
- Comments you've seen online
- Illustrate your notes app entries
- Draw objects around you without looking at the page
- Specific tastes you enjoy
- Specific smells you enjoy
- Specific textures you enjoy
- Your daily routine
- Snippets from conversations you overhear
- Make patterns using random objects and ink
- Trinkets or souvenirs you've collected over the years
- The Sublime
- The Grotesque
- A specific color
- People-watching on the bus or in a coffee shop
- Buildings and scenery you pass on your commute
- A food or product you always see in the store that you've never seen anyone eat or buy
- Early memories of the internet
- Observations from a high vantage point like a parking deck, the library's higher floors, or the Howard's Knob patio at the student union