The sunlight was shining on my Cafetiére and I loved the colour, so I took a photo.
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Welcome to this week’s creative prompt. We begin with a single word, a creative prompt, and expand it to inspire fiction writing, journaling, and a host of other creative activities. These creative prompts, are to give me, and anyone else who wants to join in, some focus to our creative work.
For thousands of years, language and writing, have passed on information. Often this information describes something. However, language can be limiting. It is a truism that a picture paints a thousand words. We are multi-sensory beings, and so we’re going to attempt to step beyond words. Therefore, this week’s creative prompt is:
Texture — the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance
this is one definition, I also want to point out that the word can be used to describe less tangible ‘things’ like art and music
Let the prompt ‘texture’ inspire you in any area of creativity that you are interested:
Let’s expand the word a little further…
This Fiction Writing Prompt, exploring the word texture, aims to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.
I couldn’t see, but I could touch and feel. The texture told me everything.
Words can be limiting. The spoken word is augmented by tone and mannerisms. Someone can say something, yet their expression can change the meaning of their words completely. We’re going to step away from what we hear and what we see, yet still, convey meaning.
This prompt is all about using the sense of touch to describe what is happening. It is time to close our eyes and ears and feel what we write.
The writing perspective is once again in the first person. This should make it easier to explore what the character is touching. But you are welcome to change that. The setting and everything else are also open to your imagination. Why can’t the character see anything? What is the item they are touching, and what secrets are revealed in its texture?
There are no rules, simply write and have fun.
Journaling allows us to hold conversations on paper. From private diaries to creative art journals, we pour out our deepest thoughts. We often decorate our traditional diary-type journal pages with art or sometimes turn them into full-blown mixed-media illustrations. Texture plays a big part in mixed media. There are so many ways to add texture to a page. From layering and collage to using stencils and paste and other liquid mediums, a page can become so much more than a flat image.
Questions to answer, thoughts to explore or images to create in your journal:
I now have ‘texture’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I have previously mentioned working on a piece of music called ‘emerge’. As I compose this piece, I am very much aware that its texture should convey the emergence of a butterfly from its cocoon. The texture of butterflies wings is also in my mind as I compose. And as I walk around this week, I will be looking out for interesting textures that I can photograph. There is so much inspiration around us, it is time to feel it.
Let ‘texture’ inspire your music, photography, and painting this week.
As always, these creative prompts are optional and entirely open to your interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story, something a little more grandiose, or to help you work through a creative block.
As mentioned before, this isn’t a ‘challenge’ but the prompts can be used that way if you want. If you do create anything using them, I would love to see or hear about it. Leave a link in the comments below or tag me @darrenrhill or #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.
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My week has been very creative, although it feels like I haven’t achieved much. I suppose that’s down to not having completed things. These creative field notes are very much concerning works in progress. But that is the idea behind posting this each week.
I’m still working on the tracks that, I hope, will become a new album in the near future. I have a working list of ten tracks in various stages of (de)composition.
There’s also a soundtrack being composed inspired by the word emerge… it’s all butterflies and stuff… what do butterflies sound like, and what is the sound of them emerging from their cocoon? I’m doing a video series about that process, and the first video in the playlist is here.
Did an ink splat to tie in with this week’s creative prompt. That’s fig 1 at the top of the page.
Did a little page for my art/thoughts/meme journal, I don’t have a real name for this journal. It is a part image, part word journal, and I am using my Iconic journal.
When it comes to text, blog posts and marketing have been in the work/freelance pile this week. I’d love to spend more time writing fiction… but my desire is obviously not enough at the moment to actually do anything about it.
Currently reading:
The Saints of Salvation by Peter F Hamilton. This is the final book in his recent Salvation Sequence Trilogy. I am thoroughly enjoying these. And my favourite line this week, which also gives a glimpse at what the content is…
We just don’t have the psychology to deal with Armageddon
The Saints of Salvation Peter F Hamilton
Currently listening:
The Moon is blue by Future Islands
From Bills & Aches & Blues (40 years of 4AD). This is a compilation album celebrating 40 years of 4AD. And that makes me feel even older, seeing as I have a few very early 4AD recordings on original vinyl. I love Future Islands and I love Colourbox, who originally recorded The moon is blue. And this is a pretty good cover version.
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I am composing a piece of music and I thought I would share the process with you. This is the first video and I share where the ideas come from. These are the bare bones and early thoughts and ideas, but in the next few videos, we’ll see where the muse takes me and what happens. Join me on this creative venture and let me know any questions you have.
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Welcome to this week’s complete creative prompt. We begin with a single creative prompt word and expand it to inspire fiction writing, journaling and a host of other creative activities. These creative prompts, are to give me, and anyone else who wants to join in, something to focus on in our creative work.
We live in a digital age. Information is available at the touch of a button and the connection to a network. Binary code delivers whatever we want to know, some things that we don’t want to know, and cute videos of animals. Words, images, and sound appear on screens and speakers of all sizes. However, we still have and create things in print. Before digital, we had the printing press, before the press there were pens and brushes. Therefore, this week’s creative prompt is:
Ink — a coloured fluid or paste used for writing, drawing, printing, or duplicating
this is just one definition, I couldn’t leave out the fact that some of my favourite cephalopods use ink to confuse predators
Let the prompt ‘ink’ inspire you in any area of creativity that you are interested:
Let’s expand the word a little further…
The Fiction Writing Prompt aims to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.
It was time. I had put this off for too long. I picked up the pen and dipped the nib in the ink.
I love stationery. I love pens. Yes, that is my dipping pen in the picture. However, I also have plenty of blank pages. I can be a procrastinator, putting things off until the last minute. I might be unsure what to write or scared to say what I really think and feel, or simply afraid to make the first mark through fear of making a mistake.
This prompt, in one sense, is about facing a creative person’s worst nightmare, the blank page. Remember though, this is fiction… really… sort of.
The writing perspective is the first person, but that, as always, can be changed. The challenge is to convey the reason using the ink has taken so long. It is about exploring fear. It might be insubstantial, but it has still stopped you from using it. Time to overcome any writing or drawing fears and put ink pen to paper in this piece of fiction.
Journaling allows us to hold conversations on paper. From private diaries to art journals, we pour out our deepest thoughts. Inkblots can mean many things and have been used to explore personality. Spill some ink on a page. Blot it with another piece of paper. What do you see? Can you add other art embellishments to turn it into something?
Questions to answer, thoughts to explore or images to create in your journal:
I now have ‘ink’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. However, I struggle with messy art or writing. Ink, for me, has always been a medium where I make a mess. However, as I create more and more, I have realised that often creativity happens in the mess. Perfect doesn’t exist. Smudges, stains and splatters, either literal or metaphorical, are where the creative magic happens. I need to be messier.
Let ‘ink’ inspire your music, photography, and painting this week.
As always, these creative prompts are optional and entirely open to your interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose, an ATC, large canvas or journal page. Commit it to paper in ink.
As mentioned before, this isn’t a ‘challenge’ but the prompts can be used that way if you want. If you do create anything using them, I would love to see or hear about it. Leave a link in the comments below or tag me @darrenrhill or #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.
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