"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

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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. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Just Out of Our Reach

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Make art about searching for something. 

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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.

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Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Are

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Make art about the flow of energy.

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.

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Sometimes the Day Is the Poem, and It’s Golden <3

Woke up hearing someone singing this, a tenor so golden it surely came from heaven ❤

“You’ll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley. You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold….”

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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/

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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.

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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. 

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