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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

4 December 2016

Make art about nothing going as you planned.

plans

5 December 2016

Make art about driving in the dark.

driving-dark

6 December 2016

Make art about standing up for yourself.

standing-up-for-yourself

7 December 2016

Make art about corruption, about calling out corruption.

corruption

8 December 2016

Make art about needing silence, about the recharge, rebirth, renewal of strength to be found a a period of silence.

silence

9 December 2016

Make art about needing to scream, about the release, the energy, the power, to be found in a good primal scream.

the-scream

10 December 2016

Make art about hospitals, about being in the hospital.

Patient sitting on hospital bed waiting

11 December 2016

Make art about drawing strength from the energy and creativity and spontaneity of young people.

young-hero

12 December 2016

Make art about coming to terms with the inevitability of death.

death-tolle

 

 

 

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Dreams, Family, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Defiance and Remaking

2 December 2016

De·fi·ance (dəˈfīəns/) noun

open resistance; bold disobedience.

“the demonstration was held in defiance of official warnings”

Make art about acts of defiance, small or large.

small-acts

3 December 2016

Making new stocking for our family with remnants of late 40s-early 50s vintage fabric.

Make art about remaking something old into something new.

vintage-fabric

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Doing What's Right

1 December 2016

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver’s order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Make art inspired by this, about doing what’s right. 

rosa-parks

 

 

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Some Midweek Call for Submissions Love <3 Negative Capability Wants Your Secrets

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY JOURNAL – SECRETS

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY PRESS wants to know your secrets!  Please send your secrets as prose, poetry, flash-fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid work for this special edition of the journal.

Deadline January 15, 2017.

Please visit the Submittable page and choose Literature or Artwork to view the specific submission guidelines. https://negativecapability.submittable.com/submit/

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Call for Submissions, Creativity, Editing, Friday Call for Submissions, Gratitude, litmags, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, publishing, Writing

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Daily Prompt <3 Disquiet

30 November 2016

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I’m two, and both keep their distance”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Make art about restlessness, about disquiet. 

disquiet

 

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, fiction, freedom, Gratitude, Love, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Still Waiting for an Answer

29 November 2016

I’ve had only two brief replies to all of the emails and letters I’ve sent to my senators, members of Congress, or the White House. The two I have received came from Senators Kaine and Warner. Neither response actually addressed what I had written them. Neither response actually said anything at all.  

Nonanswer (noun (plural nonanswers)

  1. The lack of an answer.
  2. An answer that is so vague or noncommittal as to be worthless. 

Make art about someone giving a Non-Answer. 

nonaswer

 

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Looking for Inspiration? 24 New Prompts!

Our annual Better Than Black Friday Mini Writing Marathon is over, but you can still keep writing!

24 New Prompts! Check it out! 

Visit the Better Than Black Friday Facebook Group for tons of prompts and inspiration! 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/

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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Wild in You

Feral: ˈferəl,ˈfirəl/

adjective

Df: (especially of an animal) in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.

Make art about wildness, about being in a state of wildness, about escaping domestication.

feral-cats

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2016 Prompts, animals, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Love, Nature, nonfiction, One Love, poetry, Writing

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Better Than Black Friday Mini Writing Marathon! 24 New Prompts :-) Join Us!

Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon!

Good Morning, Bargain Shoppers! No Lines! No Waiting!

24 New Prompts for our Third Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! Now posted!

Join us in the Facebook group, and git that write on, y’all!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/

no black friday

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Small Acts

23 November 2016

Dreamt I was working with a couple of other people in some kind of disaster distribution center, coordinating and handing out goods to people in need, blankets, socks, water bottles, cloth diapers for babies. People moved through the barn-like building, their steps stuttering softly against the dirt floor. The line seemed as if it would never end. It didn’t feel like I was doing enough. But then, a young woman with two small children, a baby on her hip, and a four or five year old girl holding her hand, stopped in front of me for a blanket. The young mother’s face was drawn and exhausted, and the kids too seemed scared and weighted with whatever disaster it was we were all dealing with out there in the world.

The little girl said, “Blue.”

I smiled, not sure for a second what she meant, but then I looked down. The stacked blankets were mostly green and gray, but tucked into the pile halfway down or so, one blue blanket.

Her mama shushed her, and smiled sadly at me. but the little girl looked up at me, smiling a little around the fingers she had in her mouth, and said again, “Blue?” 

Her mama hushed her again, saying, “Missy, we can’t–“

“Sure we can,” I said. I pulled the one blue blanket out of the others and offered it across the table to the little girl. She let go of her mama, and reached out with both her little girl hands to take the blue blanket, wrapping her arms around it like a hug and smiling. 

We all smiled. 

Make art about small acts of taking care of each other. 

smallest-act

 

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