I know October is typically a month where people try their hand at somewhat elaborate creative challenges and really test themselves and their ability to stay consistent for a month but this time, I wanted to do something a little different.
The thing I'm challenging myself to do this October is to take one step. My mental health has been aggressively declining and while I'm still pulling myself together to reach out to friends for support, the one thing that does consistently give me joy and does make me feel settled is my story and I finally want to take some steps to talk about it in a meaningful way.
The concept really is simple, every day for October, I'll do my best to introduce a new character and their place in Pursuing Daybreak. A lot of the concepts and characters are, thankfully, already grouped together in sevens for this work so it did end up being a pretty neat prompt list altogether:
Apollo, who is the beating heart of this concept and story
The seven main characters (Hyacinthus to Eros)
Zephyrus who, like Apollo, is vital but haunts the story rather than participates
The seven people who are in possession of larkspurs (Penthesilea to Aphrodite)
Seven gods besides Apollo who are important to the story (Artemis to Erebus)
and finally, seven lovers and mothers to match the main cast (Leto to Eurydice)
Mostly, I'm just hoping to generate some happiness for myself this month, even if it comes exclusively in the form of taking a few minutes every day to post a little goofy drawing of one of these characters I've come to cherish so much.
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