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Silence — Weekly Creative Prompt
It’s time for another weekly creative prompt word. These weekly words, or prompts, are to give me, and anyone else who wants to join in, some focus to our creative work.
Last week’s creative prompt was sound. It was about capturing something among the chaos. This week I want to explore the complete opposite. I want space and emptiness. As an introvert who likes a little solitude and quiet, I am quite looking forward to this week. Therefore…
This week’s creative prompt word is:
Silence — complete absence of sound
there are other meanings or ways to describe silence, but it is the word absence that is interesting to me
Let the prompt inspire you in any area of creativity that you are interested:
- writing fiction
- art journaling
- songwriting
- journaling
- photography
- painting
- composing
- blog posts
- art therapy
- anything that could use a little nudge to begin
I now have ‘silence’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I have a habit of overcomplicating things, from my journal set-up to my creative projects. I am hopeful that exploring silence will help me create some space in my process and even in my music.
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 #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.
Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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d
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Sound — Friday Fiction Writing Prompt
A Fiction Writing and Journal Prompt about sound to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply explore, write and create.
a sound, clear and unique despite the background noise, a pattern defined among the chaos
Writing Prompt Expanded
We all know what it is like to hear a sudden, new sound. When all is silent even the slightest noise can awaken our senses and put us on alert. However, the same is true when there is a lot of background noise. Our hearing notices the unique and different.
This prompt is all about sound, its description and the narrator’s response.
- What is the sound?
- Can you describe the sound using other senses?
- What is the reaction, the felt response to the sound?
The setting for this prompt could be anything. The same goes for whether you write in the first or third person or any other perspective. It could be a personal memory if you are writing in your journal, or it could be the beginning of a very scary story.
As always these writing 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 a page in your journal. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments, use the hashtag #ffwp or tag me. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.
Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
namaste
d
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Sound — Weekly Creative Prompt
It’s time for another weekly creative prompt word. These weekly words, or prompts, are to give me, and anyone else who wants to join in, some focus to our creative work.
All of our senses play an important part in our lives. This is shown when we lose the use of one, either temporarily or permanently. However, the loss of one often augments another. Being a composer the sense of sound plays a deep and meaningful role in my life; from strikes to melodies, quiet to loud and everything in-between. Therefore…
This week’s creative prompt word is:
Sound — vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s or animal’s ear
there are other meanings for the word, but I wanted to give the broadest possible definition to begin
Let the prompt inspire you in any area of creativity that you are interested:
- writing fiction
- art journaling
- songwriting
- journaling
- photography
- painting
- composing
- blog posts
- art therapy
- anything that could use a little nudge to begin
I now have ‘sound’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I want to think about sound as a whole as I create my music this week. I will also explore sound in other mediums. For instance, what does sound look like in my journal?
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.
Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
namaste
d
xoxIf you enjoyed this post please support my writing by making a donation of any amount.
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Choosing my journals for the Pilgrimage
April update on what journals I am currently using as I continue my pilgrimage. It seems I might be heading straight back to where it all began, but I’ll let you watch and find out.
