A hand-drawn map, a weird zine, a homemade comic: small formats are where big voices practice.

Small formats are cheap enough to risk. A zine costs paper and an afternoon, so you can be strange in it, abandon it, or start over without losing much. That low cost is what lets a voice develop, since voices come from many quick attempts rather than one careful one.

Pick something you could finish in a day and make one this week. Eight folded pages, a map of your own neighborhood, a four-panel comic about the bus ride to school. Keep it where you can see it, then make another next week.