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Creative Prompts

It's so easy to be inspire but it's very hard to actually be inspired and follow through. I would say 40% of my writing were inspired by prompts and the other 60% comes from everywhere else.

List of a few of my favorite writing prompts:

Search Engine Stories Prompt - created by Selma in the city - uses real search engine terms as writing prompts

Fiction Friday - you don't have to write fiction but somehow it always inspire that in me

Cafe Writing - a monthly prompt with lots of options - poetry, fiction, essays

One Single Impression - offers prompts for haiku and and other poetic forms

Poefusion - run by the lovely Michelle - has four prompts: Monday Mural, Tuesday Title, Friday 5 and Poefusions and also introduces to Poetic Forms.

Three Word Wednesday - from the site: Each week, I post some words. People write things using the words. Then they comment here.

Read Write Poem - has a mixtures of prompts for new and growing poets

A Thousand Words - A photo or artwork is given and you are to write whatever inspires you but you do not have to write a 1000 words

Easy Street Prompts - Unable to write? Try these various prompts to help you get started

List of poem/writing forms that I have tried and liked:

Blackout Poems - find an article and just black out the unwanted words to create your poem

Six Sentences - write a story or anything that comes to you in just 6 sentences

The Rothko - a poem written while looking at Rothko's paintings

Imitation Poem - rewrite someone's poem to your own viewpoint

Shuffle Words - just drag and create

List of prompts for photography and various mix medias (currently participating in Photohunt and Macro Monday at 2lives):

Art Every Day Month Challenge for November - you can still join for the rest of November

Photohunt - a theme given each week and you search for a pic that matches the theme

Macro Monday - like the name says, closeup shots of just about anything

Her Space My Space His Space - mostly like photohunt

Inspire Me Thursday - various creative prompts

 

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Pho You!

Until 2 weeks ago, I had never eaten Top Ramen cooked. Yea, I had it uncooked in an Asian type salad but never cooked.
HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hit the jack pot to find a package in my pantry that was "Oriental Flavor"
So I cooked it up. Then I put in hoison and red chili sauce. It was gooooood. It tasted just like my favorite soup. Pho. Pho is pronounced fu as in f#*k you. Or rhymes with duh. I love to get Pho'ed up. I Pho'in love it! Traditionally Pho is a Vietnamiese noodle soup. You can have it with beef or chicken or tofu. My family prefers it with beef. My kids love it and often request it.
When I have a cold, it's my go to meal.
You can make it as spicey or unspicey as you like it. We like bean sprouts, raw jalapenos, Thia basil and chili sauce in ours. It's cheap, hot and good.
But now I have discovered my fake Pho. My Oriental flavored Top Ramen. Seven for a dollar. Can't beat that, now can you?
There is a place we like to go here in town called What the Pho. Great name, great Pho.
But now I know if I am really hungry, yet too tired to leave the house I can always have my fake Pho!!
It's Pho'in GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Peace the Pho Out

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Karina's Alphabet Soup

 

Hi Everyone, hope you'll join me over at Creative Karina with my new meme, Karina’s Alphabet Soup, a monthly meme allowing you to express your creativity in not just ONE, but TWO very fun ways. Starting with the letter “A” each month we will move through the alphabet, and with camera’s in hand, head out and photograph any and everything we can find to fit that month’s letter. Then, armed with our very own, individual photographic inspiration, we will use our photos to guide us on a writing extravaganza. You can use one photo, and from that, draw your inspiration for a haiku, or use 10 photos and write a short story. Use 5 for a story or 12 for a poem, it really has no limits, knows no bounds. The rules are simple and flexible. The fun is in the ability to stretch first your physical eye, to see the letter of choice all around you, and then your inner eye, to see the magic your muse can create with what you come home with.

Then, on the 1st Friday of each month, I will post my own entry, and if you post your own link in a comment (at Creative Karina) I will add your link to the post.  That’s it. You will then have a full month to work on next month’s entry.

Please stop on by Creative Karina if you'll be participating.

Oh yes, and I know there are some of you grumbling because you either A) don’t take photos or B) don’t write poetry/fiction, but would still like to play along. FINE, this is how flexible I am with the rules, if you don’t take photos, take a gander over at flickr or some other photo hosting site and do a search for photos based on just the LETTER assigned, find a photo or ten that inspire(s) you, and write from those (just be sure to credit the photo(s) appropriately). If you don’t write, but want to take on the photo assignment portion of the project, do so, and then just give us a few words about where the photo(s) took place, what they inspire in you, or whatever else looking at those photos make you feel.

See? EASY…

Oh, right, also, if you could grab the badge and include in your posts and post it on your sidebar (pretty please?), that would be great!

I realize I need to figure out how to work out the html code so you can do it the easy way, so if anyone out there can help me with that, I would appreciate it..... THANKS!

The rules, in bullet form:

· Get letter assignment; leave comment that you’re participating, preferably with email addy, so I can send you reminder.
· Take photo(s) of things beginning with said letter
· Write something creative using photo(s) as inspiration
· Return here on 1st Friday of month

-Leave your link so I can add it to the post.

Got it? Good. Let’s get to it, you assignment this month is the letter “B”…It goes live at Creative Karina on November 7th.

Go forth, be creative.

 

  

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