Sometimes the Prompt Floats On the Fields
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“…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes
Make art with mist as the central metaphor.
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Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows
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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
Make art with deliberate shifts in time.
Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone
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“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.
Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company
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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.
HeartWood Literary Magazine!
HeartWood Literary Magazine
Poetry! Fiction! Creative Nonfiction!
Our inaugural issue goes live April 1st!
We’re now reading for the October issue. Send us that beautiful work!
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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