SLOW RENGA Respond with #haiku using the suggested first lines & start each haiku with the same first lines below: DISSONANCE… or LISTENING TO RAIN… Post haiku in comments, enjoy mulling over the first line and considering your options at different points during your day. Look forward to reading your haiku and seeing where these lines take you. #Writing#poetry#creativity#wellbeing#write#writingcommunity#amwriting#poem#writer
Stymied by writer's block? We know the feeling! Here are some tips from author Steve Almond on how to overcome it or even accept it as a potential ally to our creativity. "The first thing that needs to be said is that writers get blocked almost constantly. During the composition of this very paragraph, I stopped typing thirty-seven times (I counted), stumped as to what I wanted to say next, and how," writes Almond. "I got up and made a snack. I went outside to chase away the woodchuck living beneath our storage shed. I came back inside and turned off the app that turns off my internet and spent a solid half hour researching how to poison a woodchuck."
This is an excerpt from Almond's book, "Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories," featured in LitHub.
It’s now thought that they could illuminate fundamental questions in #physics, settle questions about #Einstein’s theories, & even help explain the #universe.
…In recent yrs, the amt of data that scientists have discovered about black holes has grown exponentially.
To look “into” a #BlackHole—from which no photon or wave or ray ever returns—requires considerable #creativity. The interior of a black hole can only be deduced from changes exterior to it. Active #BlackHoles are encircled by intense brightness & billion-degree heat, given off by matter falling toward them—think of the fire of an incoming asteroid—while the black hole itself is unthinkably cold, a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
"How a City Agency Saves New York’s Discarded Objects for Art" by Lisa Wong Macabasco #ARTNews
"As New York’s largest creative-reuse center and a program of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts collects a boundless array of reusable materials from businesses and individuals that are then made available to nonprofits, schools, and other city agencies, thus diverting some 1.7 million pounds of materials from landfills in 2023.
The first donation Fremont received for what would become Materials for the Arts was 50 glass exhibition cases from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which to this day continues to gift materials to MFTA, like a large cache of recently digitized slides."
Are you curious about journaling games? I will be Table 12 at the Denver Small Press Fest this coming Saturday March 30th at the Globeville Center 4496 Grant Street! (Admission is free!)
If you're into journaling, The Artist's Way, tarot, solo RPGs, creativity, or paint swatches, come find me!
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I first thought this was "golden age" but gilded, yes interesting...
(disclaimer: haven't gone to watch the link on the other platform)
Hm...
Do gilded ages go along with golden ages? it seems to be that having pools of near infinite wealth opens space for people to be paid to think, to art, to create.
Keen to figure out having the golden without gilding (or with less extreme wealth and poverty). Maybe bringing back guilding?
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If you like your romances dark, intense and violent, read Devil's Own. Because when a deal’s made with The Devil, someone always has to pay.
By 51, Miranda Fleming had become a world famous artist. She lacked nothing, except a relationship. In fact, in her entire dating life not one man had ever asked for a third date. She often joked she was the oldest living virgin.
He's the actual Devil! Satan. Lucifer, the Antichrist, the Beast. So many names, the list went on and on. A taker of souls, a dealer of desires and greed, the ultimate evil.
And now it was time to collect on the deal made about Miranda years ago. He’d kept her pure since then, just so he could torment and torture her.
That is, until he tires of her. https://www.evernightpublishing.com/devils-own-by-suzy-shearer/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095XGQ2HZ/
Finally getting back to writing Book 5 of The Silk Rope Masters. It's slowly coming together - all those green lines mean I'm happy with the chapter for the time being.
I had hoped it would have been completed by now but Cancer stuffed up my progress. I'm still trying to get used to the many side effects from radiation and drug therapy.
Inveniam viam: “I shall either find a way, or make one.” A Latin expression that is most often used by military forces, but I think it’s a phrase that artists and creatives can adopt for the pursuit of their wildest dreams too.
How to Fly a Horse
The Secret History of Creation, Innovation and Discovery
To create is human. Technology pioneer Kevin Ashton has experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative twenty years in the making, Ashton demystifies the sacred act, leading us on a journey through humanity’s greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it. @bookstodon #books #nonfiction #creativity #innovation
One of the thing I'm the proudest over the work I've done while recovering from burnout is leveraging my manic brain to do software design.
I spend time in my grasshopper ideation mode, writing everything down in my sketchbooks, writing everything down in a fair amount of detail.
Later on, I will go over this and try to extract tangible features that relate to what I'm building. Again, I document everything in an exacting manner.