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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.

hands in 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. 

queen_cups

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, Love, Nature, One Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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New Publication! Thanks to The Blue Heron Review!

Grateful to the fine editors at Blue Heron Review for including me.

The poem here will be part of A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming later this spring from FutureCycle Press. 

Scroll down to read all of the wonderful writers. I’m honored to be in their company ❤

My poem “It Is Not What Waits At the Door, This Love” 🙂

http://blueheronreview.com/blue-heron-review-issue-5-winter2016/

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Jump

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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.

 

Other cool facts about Leap Years can be found here: 

Make art inspired by Leap Day or Leap Year 🙂 

leap frog

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2016 Prompts, animals, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Sometimes the Prompt Takes Us Where We Want To Go

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Make art about early morning driving.

driving

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Sometimes the Prompt Is In the Pattern

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Was greeted by frost on the windows this morning. Oh those fractals!

“Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand/And Eternity in an hour.”~William Blake 

Make art about fractal patterns in nature. Or create art where the structure is inspired by fractal patterns. 

frost fgractals

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Gratitude, Love, Nature, One Love, Writing

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Friday Call For Submissions Love! Rathalla Review

Rathalla Review, the literary magazine of Rosemont College, is seeking submissions for the Spring 2016 online issue. Spring Reading period closes on March 18!

“Our mission is to give emerging and established writers and artists an outlet for their creative vision in our online and print publication. We publish the best fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, and art, culled from a nationwide community of writers and artists. Rathalla Review’s staff, comprised of M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.A. in Publishing candidates, merges the creative arts and the business of publishing into a shared voice and vision.”

Submission Guidelines here:

http://rathallareview.org/?page_id=29

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Rips Us Up By the Roots

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Virginia devastated by multiple tornadoes yesterday. Even growing up near the coast of NC, where hurricanes and tornadoes happened all the time, I’ve not seen destruction like some of what happened here yesterday. Praying for everyone hurt by the storms. Make art about the power of nature. 

tornado

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Creativity, Family, One Love, Writing

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New Publications :-) Thanks to the editors at The Grief Diaries!

Gratitude and Love to the editors at The Grief Diaries for giving the first Ghost poems a home ❤ These poems are from my newest as yet unpublished collection, entitled Death For Beginners. 
 

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Sometimes the Prompt Sees You Through

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Make art about the preciousness of sight.

glasses

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! OooOooh That Smell!

2/21/2016

Crocus! Tiny purple blooms announcing the slow change of season today in the yard! Make art about the first signs of spring.

DSCN2005

2/22/2016

I bought my first ever new car in 2010, and today, I paid that Lil Red Beauty off! I grew up poor, so this is a big deal for me, as someone who has had a very complicated relationship with money. Make art about finishing something. Or about your relationsip with money.

Paid in full-stamp

Grunge rubber stamp with text paid in full inside,vector illustration

2/23/2016

Did an exercise with my Baby Poets last night where they did freewrites in response to a scent. Make art about a memory evoked by a particular scent.

smell

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Gratitude, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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