A Custom Mood Theme in a Year

Welcome aboard for Part 2 of Mood Theme in a Year! I hope you had a good break, because we're about to break into some new moods 👍

Starting now, the Maximum and Medium Tracks diverge from the Minimum track; in Part 3, Medium and Minimum will be unified again, but Maximum will be striking out on its own for the rest of the year. Pretty exciting!

This week's Minimum moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

This week's Medium and Maximum moods are: Stressed, Excited, Optimistic

And what a combination of moods we have to start out with here! Pretty neat that you can be Stressed, Excited, and Optimistic all at the same time. Or maybe I mean "exhausting" rather than neat 😅 Still, they're new moods to work with, and it can be fun to compare and contrast. If you're sticking around on the Maximum Track, it'll be good practice for when we get into runs of similar moods. How do Excited and Optimistic differ? How would you differentiate the two moods? How about Excited versus Stressed? Those both have the potential to be pretty high energy moods, even if they're on different ends of whether you're happy about something. Stressed and Optimistic? It doesn't really seem like they have a lot in common on the surface, but if you've been working really hard on something you still feel good about succeeding, you might just feel both of those at the same time.

What do you think? Are you ready to jump in on this week's moods, or do you wish the break had lasted a little longer? Do you expect to have any trouble with any of them, or need some inspiration? Let's talk about it!

Looks like I'm going through with scheduling the rest of the year after all 😂 Gotta ride that productivity train all the way to the end when you can! (At least when it's not dangerous to do so, of course.)

Anyway, there's only two weeks of moods left, which isn't quite enough time for either a Medium or even a Minimum run—unless you want to try and get a Bingo Blackout before the end of the year. As such, I'll only be posting moods from the Maximum Track.

This week's Maximum moods are: Accomplished, Artistic, Busy

Some fitting moods for this community, if you ask me! But maybe you feel differently? And how do you think you'll do on this week's moods in general? Are you expecting them to come easily, or are you going to have to put your nose to the proverbial grindstone? Do you need any help? And is this a welcome distraction from the end of the year? Remember, the community schedule is technically just a suggested schedule; if you need to take a break early and come back for the last few moods later, that's perfectly fine! What do you think? Let's talk about it!

Welcome back, everyone, for Part 6! Once again, we have different moods for all three tracks.

This week's Minimum Moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

This week's Medium Moods are: Stressed, Excited, Optimistic

This week's Maximum moods are: Lethargic, Listless, Bored

With school starting back up where I am, I'll admit I'm feeling the Medium moods more than the Maximum moods right now 😅 But that just means it's the perfect time to daydream about this week's Maximum moods! Ah, how I look forward to the days when I will once again be Lethargic or Bored without worrying about grades; Listless is a little bit more anxious than that, to me, so I might be feeling some of that in the near future regardless. Still, though!

What do you think? Have you got more than enough Bored in your life right now, or would it be a welcome change? And do you expect making a mood image for it to go easily, or be more difficult? How about this week's other moods? Or if you're on a different track? Let's talk about it!

And so we begin Part 4! This is a pretty special week, because it's the first time that all three tracks have different moods to work on.

This week's Minimum moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

This week's Medium moods are: Stressed, Excited, Optimistic

This week's Maximum moods are: Chipper, Ecstatic, High

Goodness, that's some mix of moods we've got! Still, unless you're working on all three tracks at once, it probably won't be a problem. And even if you are working on all three tracks at once (...you'd tell me if you were, wouldn't you?), I still believe in you! You've got what it takes to make all three mood themes of your dreams!

Do you have any particular goals for this week? Do you expect to have difficulties with any of the moods? Or maybe you've got great ideas for all of them already? Let's talk about it!

And we're back! I hope everyone had a nice break week.

Starting this week, the Medium and Maximum tracks keep going forward, while the Minimum track restarts. If you want just a tiny mood theme with the fewest possible images, now's a great time to get on board! If you want a somewhat more robust mood theme, you can still join now, and finish up the first eighteen moods in Part 3. Or you can double up, and do six moods a week! It's up to you.

This week's Minimum Track moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

This week's Medium and Maximum moods are: Stressed, Excited, Optimistic


Are you ready to get back to work? Or maybe you're starting your mood theme now? Are you new to the community, or have you been hanging out here for a while? And what are your thoughts on this week's moods, for any track? Let's talk about it!

Here it is: The final part! There are only five moods left for anyone who has been following along with the full schedule. We're almost at the end...

This week's moods are: Accomplished, Artistic, Busy

And if those aren't fitting moods for this point in the project (not to mention this time of year in general), I don't know what would be!

There are no minimal moods this week or next week, since I'm trying to keep to a schedule of three-ish moods per week, and splitting the minimal mood set up between the two remaining weeks would give us three times that per week. Still, if you want to go for it, here's a link to the Part One Moods! I haven't edited the formal schedule yet, but the minimal mood set should also include Relaxed, Silly, and Uncomfortable, so there's all 18 moods, should you want to give things a try.

How's everyone feeling about things this week? Are these moods approachable, or is it just getting to be too much? Do they hit a little too close to home, or does the timing make it easier for you to come up with ideas? And have you thought at all about participating next year? Let's talk about it!

Welcome back for Part 6!

This week's moods are: Lethargic, Listless, Bored

This week's minimal moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

Another group of similar seeming moods! For me personally, Lethargic almost has undertones of annoyance; like you don't feel up to doing much, and you're not exactly happy about it either, thanks. Listless, meanwhile, brings the word restless to mind, except somehow even more at loose ends. And Bored, of course, is tired of everything.

Those are just my thoughts, though; what about you? Do you think these moods are really similar, or are they more distinct than I'm giving them credit for? Do you find different nuances in them? And how do you anticipate putting images to them? Let's talk about it!

Coming in a bit early with the opening week of Part 4!

This week's moods are: Chipper, Ecstatic, High

This part's moods are overwhelmingly derived from Happy, which is a nice change of pace from the Angry moods. That said, I know that I for one was really struggling with variations on Angry by the end of Part 3, and coming up with so many different and subtle variations on another mood is going to be tricky! Unfortunately, it also won't be the last time, as Angry, Happy, and Sad are the most populated "root" moods in any mood theme. Hopefully this will serve as a good continued stretch of your creative muscles, and you'll be well prepared for when we get to that last overpopulated root mood.

This week, as previously mentioned, we're also starting the parallel Minimal Mood Theme run! If you've been wanting to join in on creating a mood theme at a chill pace, but don't want to go for the whole thing, this is a great way to get one done.

This week's minimal moods are: Angry, Awake, Confused

If you're just now jumping in and any of those moods are giving you trouble, feel free to check out the relevant tags (linked above) and see how other people have approached them!

Finally, I've tightened up the applications of a few of the tags I introduced last week, and threw in a few more that I think would be useful for this community. Be sure to check the post out, even if you looked at it when it first went up.


Is everyone ready to get started on this new part and/or to get to work on a minimal mood theme? Are you intimidated by anything, or too eager to go to notice any of that? Do any of them stick out to you this week as particularly easy or difficult? Do you have any thoughts on the new tags or the Minimal Mood Theme approach? Let's talk about it!