Checkpoint 5: Priorities

[nepenthee]

Happy new year, everyone!

As you can guess, things have been quiet around here as December was a busy month. I hope you’ve had a good holiday season, and can start fresh in the new year.

We have one more month until the challenge deadline. How are your shrines coming along? Do you have a preferred order of tackling things, and how do you set priorities in light of the deadline? What are your thoughts on uploading a shrine in unfinished state?

I hope we’ll pull through together and can kick off 2026 with some new shrines! :D

Feel free to use this post to chat about other challenge- and site-related things.

Comments

[blaubeermars]

Dear Lethe, that sounds very relatable, honestly. After such an exhausting period, barely having any free time and then slowly easing back into things makes a lot of sense. The fact that you still worked on the header shows that the project still matters to you, even if everything feels a bit messy right now.

Your approach to unfinished shrines sounds really reasonable. Focusing on the parts that are essential to your view of the theme instead of trying to do everything at once is probably much healthier. In the end, people don’t need every single detail to understand what you’re trying to say.

And, to be fair, I think I’ve personally never uploaded a fully finished shrine (oh my god lol), so the idea of submitting something that’s “good enough” and then continuing to work on it later is actually pretty comforting. It honestly makes me feel calmer, because I tend to work on personal projects for a hundred years (O_o). It’s clear you’ve learned what works for you from past events, and the fact that you enjoy revisiting and refining things afterward fits that mindset really well.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that you find a good balance between what you’d ideally like to do and what’s realistic right now.