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Fire — Weekly Creative Prompt

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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.

The festival of Beltane marks the point between the spring equinox and mid-summer solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is observed at the beginning of May. Many of the ancient customs and rituals associated with Beltane involve burning and marking people and boundaries with ashes. Therefore…

This week’s creative prompt word is:

Fire — a process in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke; combustion or burning

this isn’t the only definition of Fire, in fact, as you’ll see later, I quite like this… one of the four elements in ancient and medieval philosophy

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 ‘fire’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Alchemists regarded fire as the change agent. Fire would change element to element. And the alchemists’ goal was to create gold. What creative gold will our alchemy refine this week?

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.
namaste
d
xox

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Silence — Weekly Creative Prompt

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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.
namaste
d
xox

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Sound — Weekly Creative Prompt

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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
xox

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Enough — Weekly Creative Prompt

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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.

I am good at procrastinating. It could even be my superpower. I have many brilliant excuses for procrastinating. It feels like my creative energy spends more time making up these excuses than creative projects. One of the excuses I find myself using is that I need something else to create. I need this piece of music software, or I need this or that sort of pen, or paint or journal. And because I don’t have them, I don’t create. However, that is an excuse I am fighting hard not to use. Therefore…

This week’s creative prompt word is:

Enough — as much or as many as required

this isn’t the only definition of the word, but I love the completeness that this conveys

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 ‘enough’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I have everything I need to be creative and get going. I don’t need anything more to make music, to make art, to write. Enough will also root me in the here and now to be and to do. This prompt is more than just a word. The word can and will be used, but the underlying attitude will also guide me.

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 or #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.

Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
namaste
d
xox

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Alive — Weekly Creative Prompt

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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.

The sun is currently shining. We are in astronomical spring. At this time of Easter, Christianity and other religious traditions, talk of new life, resurrection, and rebirth. It is a time of hope for the future and a time to move on from the past. And with the year many of us have had, that is no bad thought to carry. Therefore…

This week’s creative prompt word is:

Alive — continuing in existence or use

this isn’t the only definition of the word, it can be used in a variety of ways, however, I liked the continued aspect of this

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 ‘alive’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. And, I know it will remind me of how grateful I am that the sun is shining, new life and opportunities are growing, and I am here to be part of it all.

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.
namaste
d
xox

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Worship — Weekly Creative Prompt

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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.

Today is Palm Sunday. In certain faiths, this is the day Jesus entered Jerusalem to welcoming cheers. The officials were not happy. They didn’t want anyone or anything apart from what the state-approved to be revered, and within a week, they pretty much had their way. Today we have a little more freedom to what we want to show adoration. Therefore…

This week’s creative prompt word is:

Worship — great admiration or devotion shown towards a person or principle

this isn’t the only definition of worship, but I wanted to steer as clear as possible from any ‘organised’ meaning

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 ‘worship’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. The concept of worship, whether religious or more general, enables me to think beyond myself. I hope that it will help you step back and appreciate things in the next few days.

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
xox

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