The 100 Day Project: 100 Days of Paper Folding

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The 100 Day Project: "Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too"

This has the potential to be a longer, sappier story, so I’ll just stick to the facts here. Stay tuned for more reflection and philosophizing.

I’m participating in The 100 Day Project! I will be repeating a creative action (in my case, folding paper) every day for 100 days. The project kicked off on Monday, April 6, and will wrap up on Tuesday, July 14.

So far I’ve been mostly revisiting the origami models that got me started in paper folding when I was a child. These are the things that just sort of magically appear when I’m sitting idle near unimportant papers. Often I will start folding without fully knowing what is going to appear at the end. My fingers simply know the way!


Today is day 9 of the project, and I’m so far mostly feeling surprised that I’ve managed to keep up with this. I think it has even helped me maintain focus and momentum on my work in general, because I’m thinking about folding paper every day, regardless of what my business tasks might be. Yesterday I was even able to use a work task (a commission from a friend) as my paper fold project of the day:

If this sounds like fun, you should join! You can either do a quick catch-up and fall in with the rest of the project, or start your own 100 Day project on your own schedule. It’s a lovely, community-focused way to practice something you want to do better, trick yourself into doing something you love but don’t leave time for, or convince yourself to do something that’s just plain good for you. (For me, it’s a little of all of the above). You can follow my posts at #100daysofyeioupaperfolding.

All the details are at The Great Discontent.