the creative minimalist
I found a rainbow laying around on the floor so I captured it.
This week’s, the journal and planner update vlog goes on a little detour. It’s been a bit of a distracting week in one way or another, so I distract myself with a little creative play. Gesso is involved as I delve into the world of Art Trading Cards and my junk journal, before getting back…
A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. I opened the doors and stepped out on the balcony. The view was amazing, but it was the air that took my breath away Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is all about comparison.…
Planner and journal vlog update. A look into my bullet journal(s) and junk journal. I seem to have run into a problem with my set-up. Instead of capturing things in my ‘daily’ journal, I have been accruing a number of scrap pieces of paper. It feels like I am being called to an all-in-one journal……
A Fiction Writing Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore. I squeezed, nothing. I pressed again, still nothing. Now, I was getting desperate Writing Prompt Expanded This week’s Friday Fiction Writing Prompt is about frustration. Now you might feel there is enough frustration in your life already…
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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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How do you avoid the paralyzing effect of creative fear? How do you cope with facing the blank page? Join Dianne and me as we discuss these questions posted by one of our YouTube viewers.
For more of our creative discussions visit Dianne’s YouTube channel, you’ll also find some amazing mixed media, collage and ATC art there.
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Many moons ago I had a song called Your Touch. Having just passed a New Moon, it seems fitting that a new version of Your Touch is nearing completion. The draft lyrics have been written. Now I let them simmer while I mull over them, sing along with them and generally hang out with them. I’ll also record some demo vocals and perhaps record a live version of the song to see how it feels.
Your Touch is part of a collection of songs inspired by recent events. I am hoping to release the songs as soon as I can. So I’d best get on writing and recording. But the picture and my words above should give a little insight into my songwriting process. I’ll explain more in the weeks ahead.
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