Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Are
Daily Prompt
Make art about the flow of energy.
Archive for the ‘2016 Prompts’ Category
Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company
Daily Prompt
Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?
Make art about an imaginary friend.
Sometimes the Prompt Rebuilds Us
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“Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett
Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.
(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).
Sometimes the Prompt Leads You Astray
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I’m personally fighting with keeping my focus and motivation where they need to be. I keep hearing this quote from Infinite Jest:
“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.” ~David Foster Wallace
Make art about detours, or being detoured, or being distracted, or fighting for focus.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Best Friends
3 /4/2016
I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.
Make art about grief.
3/5/2016
The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.
Make art about Gratitude.
3/6/2016
Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”
Make art about siblings as friends.
Sometimes The Prompt Is Scary
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The Virginia General Assembly this week put forth House Bill 516 that requires high school teachers to notify parents if they’re going to teach books that parents might find objectionable (sexual content mostly) and gives those parents the right to object and demand alternative materials be taught.
Make art about censorship.
We’re Almost There! Prompts, Prompts, & More Prompts!
Just realized this morning that come Friday, I’ll officially reach ONE YEAR of this Daily Prompt Madness! So much fun! Hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Git that creativity on, y’all!
Check out the Daily Prompt Big List here! And please share!
The more beautiful art we put into this crazy world, the better!
https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! A Little Help From Some Friends
So grateful to be blessed with good friends. Both prompts are inspired by the kindness of friends these last few days.
3/1/2016
My wise brother told me, in so many words, to remember that we can’t grasp the river.
Make art about letting it all flow as it will. Or about a river.
3/2/2016
A sweet friend arrived with her tarot deck in hand and offered to give me a reading.
Make art inspired by the tarot.
Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Jump
Daily Prompt
Happy Leap Day!
A leap year, where an extra day is added to the end of February every four years, is down to the solar system’s disparity with the Gregorian calendar. A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days. So leap seconds – and leap years – are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons.
Sometimes the Prompt Takes Us Where We Want To Go
Daily Prompt
Make art about early morning driving.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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