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Cliche Finder. Writing & Blogging Prompts, Story Topic Generators, Photo Inspiration. Writing : Creative Writing & Blogging Prompts Topic Starters, Picture Prompts, and Thought-Provoking Questions for You to Answer "The best learning comes in the doing, and writing from prompts engenders doing.

Writing & Blogging Prompts, Story Topic Generators, Photo Inspiration

"— Judy Reeves Many writers and bloggers seek out articles, prompts, and story starters to get their creative juices flowing. We've also listed recommended resources outside of our domain featuring more free writing prompts, story starters, daily writing exercises, visual art prompts, and writing topic generators.

Writing & Photo Prompts, Tools, & Generators on Creativity Portal. English 50 Exercises for Story Writers. English 50 – Intro to Creative Writing: Exercises for Story Writers Basic Theory: What is a short story?

English 50 Exercises for Story Writers

As soon as someone delivers a definition, some good writer will write a story that proves the theory wrong. About the only thing we can say for sure is that short stories are short and that they are written in what we call prose. Some attributes, however, seem to show up more often than not. Short stories have a narrator; that is, someone tells the story; have at least one character in them; have some action occur (or perhaps fails to occur); take place somewhere; that is, there is a setting for the action; and someone either learns something or fails to learn something (theme).With these five characteristics in mind, we can create an almost endless supply of exercises to help sharpen our techniques of story telling.

Narrative Voice. The Writing Café. Cure writer's block with writing prompts, exercises, generators & gizmos. 80 Journal Writing Prompts. Thirteen Writing Prompts. [Originally published May 4, 2006.]

Thirteen Writing Prompts.

Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument. Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Throw some birds in there, too. Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible imp living behind his or her right ear. Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon. Art therapy... English. Colouring-in (Coloring) Artwork Downloads - Alphabet. You will find lots of uses for Debbie's new Alphabet designs; one letter per page.

Colouring-in (Coloring) Artwork Downloads - Alphabet

Use them to make up your own custom signs. Alphabet Packs Purchase complete sets of uppercase, lowercase or extra letters and save. Individual Uppercase Letters Select the individual letters you wish to purchase. Individual Lowercase Letters Extra Letters… for when you need more. Debbie did. Select the extra letters you wish to purchase. Mixed Media Techniques: How to Make a Card Set Art Journal. Check out this review and giveaway of Margaret Peot’s Alternative Art Journals by Quinn McDonald, a writer and certified creativity coach.

Mixed Media Techniques: How to Make a Card Set Art Journal

Here’s what she had to say about it: “The variety is big and interesting. Art Journaling. Gratitude Art Journal Page Project by Vanessa Spencer. Words to Live By Journal Page Project by Vanessa Spencer. Creating art journal and memory pages is one of my favorite crafting activities.

Words to Live By Journal Page Project by Vanessa Spencer

I was inspired by the Grafix rub-onz and decided to try a journal page with a little whimsy without losing edge. First I painted my journal page from the Ranger Ink Dylusions Creative Journal with blue acrylic paint. I actually could have waited longer for the blue paint to dry because I stenciled over the blue with the Words to Live By Stencil and pink acrylic paint (using a brayer) and when I peeled the stencil back, I lifted the blue (which was not my intention.)

However, I like how my little mistake revealed the raw paper and decided to leave it as is.

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Personality types. Map: Sacred Poetry - I. In the clatter and clamor of our lives, we need ways to connect deeply with our souls.

Map: Sacred Poetry - I

Whenever we feel depleted, poetry invariably refreshes and refuels us. Poets are cheerleaders for our spirits. They lift us up with their enthusiasm, and inspire us to go on no matter what. They notice things we overlook in our haste and hurry, and tutor us in the art of long looking. They open our eyes to the wonders that abound in the natural world, to the enchantments of animals, and the glories in the galaxies. A Quick Course in Creativity. By Paul McNeese This quick course in creativity is designed to give you a platform to stand on as we look at the various ways you can handle home, social and workplace situations, job-search details and career-path decisions.

A Quick Course in Creativity

Let's examine what creativity might look like. Here are some of the ways in which creativity expresses itself. Perhaps the creative idea is one that mixes and matches items or ideas that haven't been combined in just this way before. A wonderful example of this comes from Anita Roddick, who founded the Body Shop, a chain of personal care products and stores. Or, perhaps the same item could be used in a different way. The Inspiration Board. Becky Higgins - Products. Creative Writing. Paintingherselfintobeing - Sheri's Blog. Border & Edge Patterns. Border & Edge Patterns Below is pictures and links to the blog with distructions for each of my Border & Edge Patterns.

Border & Edge Patterns

The border patterns are very useful when you are decorating a continuous space or panel. These patterns go around corners easily and will continue for as long as you need. The edge patterns make the outside of your shape a lot more interesting.

NaBloPoMo monthly prompts

New Year Reading with Affirmations. Here are the four cards I drew for my New Year Reading this week, and what they said to me about my journey into 2014.

New Year Reading with Affirmations

Note that I chose one card from each of the four suits in my deck, plus one card in the “Unknown” section. TIME IN A BOTTLE Committee Suit I am the one who feels worried and anxious about not having enough time. Brainstorming Literature. How to create and keep an art journal. By aisling d'art ©2006 Artist's journals are illustrated diaries and journals on any theme. An art journal can be a record of your daily thoughts, a travel journal, an exercise or diet diary, a dream journal, a place where you jot down your goals or to-do lists, or... well, almost any record that you'd like to keep in a book or notebook. They become "art journals" when you add any kind of illustration or embellishment to the pages.

These pages share ideas and tips for creating and keeping your own illustrated journal. Collections – RubberMoon.