Recurring creative challenges

January

• Fun-A-Day: Pick an art project, do it every day in January, and show your work in a group art show in February. ^{#art#drawing#painting}
  • artclash.com
• GENUARY: Write code that makes beautiful things. ^#art#coding
  • genuary.art
• Jamuary: Create and share a song every day. ^#music
  • jonathanmann.net/jamuary

February

• Hourly Comic Day: Draw a comic every hour during February 1st. ^{#art#drawing#comic}
  • hourly comic day: how it works
  • So Be It! See to It!

March

• March MODOK Madness: Spend the month of March making art tributes to the Marvel Comics supervillain MODOK. ^{#art#drawing#painting}
  • MARCH MODOK MADNESS

April

• PleinAirpril: Paint and share one plein-air ('outdoors') painting a day. ^{#art#painting}
  • pleinairpril.com

May

• Mermay: Month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… mermaids! ^#art
  • mermay.com
• WeblogPoMo: Choose a guiding topic for the month, something that will help you feel propelled to post on your blog. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • WeblogPoMo 2024

June

• Junited: A fun little blogging adventure that's all about sharing. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • Junited: How & Who?

July

• 5090 by FAWM: Write 50 songs in 90 days, from July 4 to October 1. ^#music
  • fiftyninety.fawm.org
• July Reply: A follow-up to Junited: Instead of just passing “secret notes” to each other, let’s build relationships. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • July Reply

August

• Blaugust: Write a blog post every day, and other challenges. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • aggronaut.com/2023/07/12/blaugust-2023-is-coming

September

• Communal Creators: Band together to help each other start, work on, or finish a project in September and October. ^#general
  • communal-creators.dreamwidth.org
• Finish What You Started: Finishing existing works in progress from September 1st to October 31st. ^#general
  • finishwhatyoustarted-event.tumblr.com
• SeptemBest: A challenge where quality comes first – and only. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • SeptemBest: A Quality Blog Challenge
• Small Web September: Make progress on your small web projects. ^#web#coding
  • smallweb.dreamwidth.org

October

• #Crawltober: A flexible creative challenge for appreciators of creepy crawlies and spooky critters. ^{#drawing#painting#art#photography#writing#poetry}
  • mastoartsocial.neocities.org
• Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of all things open-source. ^{#coding#opensource}
  • hacktoberfest.com
• Inktober: A challenge to improve your inking skills. ^{#drawing#inking#art}
  • inktober.com
  • Inktober Alternatives
• LOLtober: Write a single post about a special Halloween or “spooky season” memory. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • LOLtober on home.omg.lol
• Looptober: Make a music loop every day. ^#music
  • looptober.glitch.me
• Mathober: Explore math concepts through different mediums. ^{#math#coding#art#writing#poetry#video}
  • mathober.com
  • fractalkitty.com
• RetroChallenge: Do something fun or interesting with vintage tech and let the world know. ^{#retro#computers#hardware}
  • retrochallenge.org
• Weird Web October: Try and make a website every day of October. ^#web#coding
  • weirdweboctober.website

November

• #30DayMapChallenge: Create maps based on daily themes. ^#maps
  • 30daymapchallenge.com
• Codevember: 30 days of creative coding challenges. ^#coding
  • codevember.org
• Mapvember: Draw fictional maps for roleplaying games. ^{#maps#drawing#art}
  • miskasmaps.com/mapvember
• NaBloPoMo: Writing a blog post every day for a month. ^{#writing#blogging}
  • What is NaBloPoMo?
  • History of NaBloPoMo
• NaBoMaMo: A month-long celebration of non-commercial botmaking. ^#bots#coding
  • github.com/tullyhansen/NaBoMaMo
• NaNoGenMo: Write code that generates a novel of 50k+ words. ^#coding
  • nanogenmo.github.io
• NaNoWriMo: Draft an entire novel in just one month. ^#writing
  • nanowrimo.org
• National Solo Album Month: Write, record, and release a whole album in November. ^#music
  • nasoalmo.com
• Novembeat: An informal challenge to record one piece of music every day in November. ^#music
  • novembeat.com
• Writing Month: A writing challenge focused on values and community. ^#writing
  • writingmonth.org

December

• Advent of Code: Small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels. ^#coding
  • adventofcode.com

Monday

• Makeover Monday: Weekly data visualization challenges. ^{#data#dataviz}
  • makeovermonday.co.uk

Tuesday

• Tidy Tuesday: Learn data science in the real world. ^#data
  • tidytuesday.com

Wednesday

No events.

Thursday

• Disquiet Junto: Weekly, fast-turnaround projects to compose, record, and share new music. ^#music
  • Disquiet Junto F.A.Q.

Friday

• Music Weeklies Challenge: Compose a brand new original song in keeping with the theme and constraints. ^#music
  • musicweeklieschallenge.com

Saturday

No events.

Sunday

No events.

• #100DaysOfCode: Spend at least an hour coding for the next 100 days. ^#coding
  • 100daysofcode.com
• 100 Days To Offload: Can you publish 100 posts on your blog in a year? ^{#writing#blogging}
  • 100daystooffload.com
• 36 Days of Type: Challenging participants to design a letter or number each day for 36 consecutive days. ^{#typography#design#art}
  • 36daysoftype.com
• Glitch Code Jams: Create web projects based on a monthly prompt. ^#coding
  • glitch.com/jams
• IndieWeb Carnival: Blogging about topics related to the IndieWeb. ^{#writing#blogging#internet#indieweb}
  • IndieWeb Carnival on indieweb.org
• Pixel Dailies: Daily themed pixel art challenges. ^{#art#pixel-art}
  • @pixel_dailies on Mastodon
  • List of daily challenges
• That Monthly Zine Project: An inclusive community of zinesters making monthly zines. ^{#zine#art#writing}
  • @mozipro on Instagram
  • That Monthly Zine Project on Linktree
• The DS106 Daily Create: Small daily creative challenges in photography, drawing, audio, video, and writing. ^{#photography#drawing#audio#video#writing}
  • daily.ds106.us
• Weeklybeats: Year-long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week. ^#music
  • weeklybeats.com