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Art Dolls: Glamourous to Hideous

January 4, 2010

You may never have made a doll your­self but you can design one. Whether you ever take the step of cre­at­ing a phys­i­cal doll, design­ing an art doll will get your cre­ativ­ity flow­ing. There are end­less vari­eties. Some are pretty, fancy and some are hideously ugly. Draw out your design or just describe it in […]

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Poetry: Put Yourself in Motion

October 3, 2009

From Jour­nal Writ­ing Cures by Mari L. McCarthy:
Never writ­ten a poem before? Just start putting words on a page any­way you want, con­nect the words or paste in a pic­ture and write down the words that you see, hear, smell touch and taste from it.
A poem doesn’t have to rhyme or make a lot of sense […]

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Very Short Story

October 2, 2009

Very Short Story: Twit­ter sized fic­tion for your enter­tain­ment. By Sean Hill.

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You Kissed the Frog and You Liked It

September 22, 2009

In a sur­pris­ing twist of fate, when you finally do buckle down and kiss that frog he really does turn into a Prince, from another planet.
Now here you are, reclin­ing in very com­fort­able seats in his space­ship. It’s not quite how you saw this day turn­ing out. Decid­ing to leave wasn’t easy. But you were […]

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II — Indie Ink">II — Indie Ink

September 21, 2009

Indie Ink — II is for writ­ers and artists who don’t just write about one thing; they are or want to be inde­pen­dent of cat­e­go­riza­tion. They don’t just write about par­ent­ing or food, they don’t just write poetry, a pho­tog­ra­pher can also write, etc. Too often we’re lumped into a group in which we may […]

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Words Pushing My Brain

September 21, 2009

Words push­ing my brain.
Does a writer get her wings
when her book is read?
My haiku for Ken. Can you write one, just for fun? Three lines, 5 syl­la­bles, then 7 then 5 at the end.
Out of the shower
drip­ping water and ideas
while I type madly.

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Storytelling for the Ordinary

September 17, 2009

Think of three ordi­nary things around the house: can opener, laun­dry soap, remote con­trol, last year’s cal­en­der (use­less stuff counts too). Now pick one and write about why you have it, what it does and how/ where you keep it. Make it sound inter­est­ing! Why did you buy that one? Does it work well? Have […]

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Happiness Lies in Wait

September 16, 2009

Happi­ness lies ahead. — Found in my for­tune cookie.
Taken at face value that sounds sim­ple enough, nice enough. But, if you think about it a bit more, doesn’t it sound kind of evil and threat­en­ing. Hap­pi­ness lurks… wait­ing to jump out and get you. What kind of hap­pi­ness is it? Also, the for­tune doesn’t say […]

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Creative Writing Related Memes

September 14, 2009

I think it’s a bit snobby to put down blog memes. True, it isn’t a good thing to over use them to the point where that is all you are post­ing. But, they are good as a way to give you some­thing to write when you are run­ning out of steam. Some of them are […]

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Your Ship in a Baby Bottle

September 12, 2009

You’re mak­ing a ship in a bot­tle. It’s some­thing you’ve always thought would be inter­est­ing to do one day. Like mak­ing paper doll chains into infin­ity, or bungee jump­ing… well, maybe not so much, it seemed cre­ative, intri­cate and some­thing you could boast about mak­ing later and then give away to rel­a­tives when you got […]

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Use Every Colour, Make Mistakes

September 7, 2009

From Ben Spark’s post: Use Every Color in Your Box of Crayons (treat your­self, read the whole post):
I think that we are so afraid to make mis­takes. We don’t take chances with those addi­tional col­ors in the box of crayons. If I took blog­gers, for exam­ple, I’d say that the peo­ple who are mak­ing the biggest […]

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Slow Down and Start Talking

September 2, 2009

From Stephe’s Writ­ingscape:
Usu­ally, when I sit down to write a first-draft scene, the set­ting, action, and dia­logue have already fer­mented and con­gealed into form so that I make the most of my time. But every now and then, even with that prep work, when I get it on the page, something’s off. It feels […]

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Walking on the Graves of Toads

August 16, 2009

I was out tak­ing pho­tos of my Mother’s gar­den for her. She keeps some exotic things and tries to get pho­tos so she can remem­ber what they looked like from year to year and sea­son to sea­son.
Any­way, walk­ing in the grass in my bare feet, I felt bumps and prickly things and the odd crunch […]

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Be Your Own Evil Villainess?

July 15, 2009

From Doc­u­ment Dri­ven on Twit­ter:
Remem­ber, you are the heroine/hero in your life, in your own story. What would you like your heroine/hero to do, to have done?
If you think of it this way how would you do things dif­fer­ently today, right now? I think my hero­ine would be out for a walk, then come back and […]

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Challenging the Limits

July 2, 2009

Chal­lenge your­self with lim­its.
Start with Six Sen­tences. What can you write in six sen­tences, a com­plete story with a begin­ning, mid­dle and end­ing? It’s a chal­lenge. Read what oth­ers have done if you need inspi­ra­tion. Post your work to the site, even if it isn’t really great to you.
Next try 200 Words and then, a real […]

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