You don’t have to have paint and brushes to create ink blots. You can use coffee, tea, even ketchup or mustard. Ran out of printer paper? Any old scrap paper will do. To further my klecksography innovation, I started with the eye-dropper and let that layer dry. Then I tried different size brushes. Flat vs.Continue reading “Exploring Klecksography is Free and Fun!”
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Innovations in Klecksography
Hi everyone! In preparation for poetry month in only two and a half weeks, I thought I would get in the mood by diving back into the joy of klecksography. If you haven’t read my previous posts on the matter and have no idea what I’m talking about, you might want to take a quickContinue reading “Innovations in Klecksography”
“Are You Guilty of Isms?” inspires a new game of Pessimistic Moustache
While reading the article “Are You Guilty of Isms” at Psychology Today, I realized I hadn’t played Pessimistic Moustache in a while. Pessimistic Moustache is a game I made up inspired by the wonderfully descriptive phrase penned by Agatha Christie. The idea is to use an ism (like pessimism, thus pessimistic) to describe things. DianaContinue reading ““Are You Guilty of Isms?” inspires a new game of Pessimistic Moustache”
Plotting with Tarot: Interpretation for a friend-The Perfect Romance Plot
This is fun! My friend Diana Rose Wilson was having a bout of writer’s block, so I mentioned trying plotting with Tarot to get some ideas. She tried it, said it took her down a rabbit’s hole and gave up, but said I could go ahead and interpret her spread. I decided to give itContinue reading “Plotting with Tarot: Interpretation for a friend-The Perfect Romance Plot”
#NaNoWriMo Day 10: All About Having Fun
Day 10 Word count: 18,450 words Word count goal: 20,000 words Mapping the Hero’s Journey: Crossing The Threshold Save The Cat: Fun & Games Today’s focus is on fun! As you can see from the images I chose for inspiration, fun makes me think of childhood and being child-like. Try doing something fun today-dressingContinue reading “#NaNoWriMo Day 10: All About Having Fun”
Need your next great idea? Try this!
A few years ago, after reading Dufresne’s Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months, I created my go to story idea generator; my Plot-o-Matic. The Plot-o-Matic is a set of three different colored cards: green = Subject (person or occupation), yellow = Conflict (something the subject wants or needs),Continue reading “Need your next great idea? Try this!”
Book Spine Poems: Happy #NationalPoetryMonth
This morning, I came across an article in School Library Journal called Here’s How You Make a Book Spine Poem with Your Students/Patrons by Travis Jonker The concept is simple, fun and it inspired me. Here are my poems, created from my bookshelf in celebration of National Poetry Month. I hope you will join meContinue reading “Book Spine Poems: Happy #NationalPoetryMonth”
Creativity For The Fun Of It!
I have begun so many blog posts lately only to feel uninspired and forced, like it was pure drudgery. After starting yet another one this morning, I gave up and asked myself, how can I make this fun for me? Then I heard cheers of laughter from next door. I went out to witness theContinue reading “Creativity For The Fun Of It!”
A Quick #Movember Update and a game of #pessimisticmoustache
To raise money for Prostate Cancer Research, people all over the world are growing mustaches this month. If you haven’t seen Adam Garone (the founder of Movember)’s Ted Talk, I recommend watching it. It’s a fun story. To create Movember awareness, Diana Rose Wilson and I have turned my game Pessimistic Moustache into a twitterContinue reading “A Quick #Movember Update and a game of #pessimisticmoustache”
Happy Halloween!
This is the first year Gator McBumpypants and his friends decided to get dressed up for Halloween. You can tell it was all Dee Dee’s idea, but I think Herman’s going to have the most fun. This year’s jack-o-lantern won “Best in Show” and “Most Creative” at the annual pumpkin carving party. I won thisContinue reading “Happy Halloween!”
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