tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45327127107423468242024-02-20T16:59:36.990-08:00Pagan Writing PromptsKetutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-34912519833287436992021-10-29T12:30:00.002-07:002021-10-29T12:30:58.633-07:00Right on time<p> This is apparently an annual blog now :-D</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGz642TZvH5Bsx0Amz5OZUNy088OHUgMgUdHbRUHk9nqLs56SZZtnW4n6FUN6uIy-mhZPycwvUzpEirx3Zxfvw-V6cDJ2Jw17Cu4g60lM50OOvuj8HNhUEpf5PreYhjEVRGvlo8E32Pzl/s631/6b59161ccf818e32f6e745f986677570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGz642TZvH5Bsx0Amz5OZUNy088OHUgMgUdHbRUHk9nqLs56SZZtnW4n6FUN6uIy-mhZPycwvUzpEirx3Zxfvw-V6cDJ2Jw17Cu4g60lM50OOvuj8HNhUEpf5PreYhjEVRGvlo8E32Pzl/s320/6b59161ccf818e32f6e745f986677570.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><br /><p>Why are you Pagan?</p><p>Write about a character facing death. Their own? Someone else's? Are they the killer?</p><p>Write about a character communicating with the Divine - how ever you define it</p><p>Write about a character realizing a promise they believed in isn't going to be kept</p><p>Write about a character suffering a serious loss</p><p>Write about a character gaining a significant victory</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgJAFz_fdydqq2fWsZzXMcS3q9xhu0rAtQ3Xw2o1MA5ltU3whvLbVWhasr_fg_OIp1RbUXNxz-wkU0UmVqtnEa32axQ77DpRPdBemqrH6mkTj3kUCSJCAfalyNZvTbk7D2aNt-AJr1Zba/s640/8f70db1aa10b0e7da9b45d5dc2f7e8b7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="443" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgJAFz_fdydqq2fWsZzXMcS3q9xhu0rAtQ3Xw2o1MA5ltU3whvLbVWhasr_fg_OIp1RbUXNxz-wkU0UmVqtnEa32axQ77DpRPdBemqrH6mkTj3kUCSJCAfalyNZvTbk7D2aNt-AJr1Zba/s320/8f70db1aa10b0e7da9b45d5dc2f7e8b7.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><br /><p>Kaida King and Aiden Charles want to win a challenge.<br />They are rivals, but they fall in love.<br />One of them has to quit the challenge and leave.<br />The one who stays manages to rescue the situation by robbing a bank. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzqRmsFdXkHeM1OAvARgvSzTjdupGmpJcGoxZT3Ji5_10LVAjpvW7nUZnulE4kOTxCdyV7q91gTOcGEvqgAcOU38ShfjUnP6UySjm147dwDKBMhJ13Tllbz7cRrcHyqmnNt2e0EkD_Ya5/s846/36dcc51b2120095765710782dc898a60.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzqRmsFdXkHeM1OAvARgvSzTjdupGmpJcGoxZT3Ji5_10LVAjpvW7nUZnulE4kOTxCdyV7q91gTOcGEvqgAcOU38ShfjUnP6UySjm147dwDKBMhJ13Tllbz7cRrcHyqmnNt2e0EkD_Ya5/s320/36dcc51b2120095765710782dc898a60.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />Thalia Jean and Fox Martin meet after a failed experiment. One of them is trying to become parent.<br />Patient turns murderous after having a near-death experience.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtNJe0xaIZsYIt6klibQjIFz7pTAFmTaAo0tng00X0xIoXlP5HNYZd4Nh8pB16ONcX3L6g_BLs1dfqTKvfGjYW3KuQ3WRvX-X4LQhV1DNvUXj7MwkFrWz_sg9qb21wDdzONtzQSHS7zEk6/s236/645ca6f7bd2b9a985188d138646cdf9e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="236" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtNJe0xaIZsYIt6klibQjIFz7pTAFmTaAo0tng00X0xIoXlP5HNYZd4Nh8pB16ONcX3L6g_BLs1dfqTKvfGjYW3KuQ3WRvX-X4LQhV1DNvUXj7MwkFrWz_sg9qb21wDdzONtzQSHS7zEk6/s0/645ca6f7bd2b9a985188d138646cdf9e.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br />Set the timer for 90 seconds. List items you can find in a daycare. When the 90 seconds are up, write a story that includes all the words in your list BUT isn't near a daycare, has no connection to one either. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijO5xUuxiOMaEwJuFuOvtHLzUuDuboCDP-cd2xwMD9f_pqK5ofT1W43L8aWUzE1tJ_WHfMOzb-yRHQ_Iglqcu9jQBIkpWDLuEx9kPeUJhyphenhyphenNFUJYKIxIg67mO-vyyY7FOoPq8oVGxXiltyK/s671/489599af6ca8b6fde7ec8efd36c365bc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijO5xUuxiOMaEwJuFuOvtHLzUuDuboCDP-cd2xwMD9f_pqK5ofT1W43L8aWUzE1tJ_WHfMOzb-yRHQ_Iglqcu9jQBIkpWDLuEx9kPeUJhyphenhyphenNFUJYKIxIg67mO-vyyY7FOoPq8oVGxXiltyK/s320/489599af6ca8b6fde7ec8efd36c365bc.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><br />Describe in concrete terms how "curiosity suffers".<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWnl77w-w9Cjv1zpbvupQat9Rqz5-2T3ysaRqd5O9Kfbe6eURnPmiIrnrVcBR_2sy3xm295t-3rioe0mDcf31qcV2dldBEoRZMQQec49lGOXoIYPu63dKEvSvif-sDqi7_Zis6sNlXG7A/s480/710128501fee095f53db3066f08cccab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="320" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidWnl77w-w9Cjv1zpbvupQat9Rqz5-2T3ysaRqd5O9Kfbe6eURnPmiIrnrVcBR_2sy3xm295t-3rioe0mDcf31qcV2dldBEoRZMQQec49lGOXoIYPu63dKEvSvif-sDqi7_Zis6sNlXG7A/s320/710128501fee095f53db3066f08cccab.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />Write from the point of view of a wristwatch<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsz2W_jd_AND2Zxf4d5ubzFq40ibTqn-DlzlrQeMNWHfuuWdkD_IhbDzYfA-MYgIxZKOF5HFDCFBy0URIwSEWvhD-jc5ZqWdhg48rJ0jT0yL_lQr_eL5jrcHF7WVrkyjOckntEGYI83JoW/s493/29900a16a4d620815863908ec37a513e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="385" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsz2W_jd_AND2Zxf4d5ubzFq40ibTqn-DlzlrQeMNWHfuuWdkD_IhbDzYfA-MYgIxZKOF5HFDCFBy0URIwSEWvhD-jc5ZqWdhg48rJ0jT0yL_lQr_eL5jrcHF7WVrkyjOckntEGYI83JoW/s320/29900a16a4d620815863908ec37a513e.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br />Create a story or poem inspired by this:<br />"Portrait of the spring, color, <br />blue shadows of wild"<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRXpmJO6XqywNE-unr5EK_1SuNWIzroHuJDFkQJF4E9QfQqKIfVFQj8y_1m27dnk56BI-HdMUR5wtCvsJJ_GpT2W0ox9z96EKrCAdbCn3V-SW6_G225DgfQmKP-JeJE4DmunWFCliA2E3/s564/3a4a8042bc998cde364e7a9ce94367fb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmRXpmJO6XqywNE-unr5EK_1SuNWIzroHuJDFkQJF4E9QfQqKIfVFQj8y_1m27dnk56BI-HdMUR5wtCvsJJ_GpT2W0ox9z96EKrCAdbCn3V-SW6_G225DgfQmKP-JeJE4DmunWFCliA2E3/s320/3a4a8042bc998cde364e7a9ce94367fb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Choose any two of the following items. Describe a human character that takes on a mix of the qualities of those two items.<br />pearl necklace<br />shirt button<br />domino set<br />keys<br />ice cube tray<br />bow<br />ring<br />mirror<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibo_tBmaRrASQWxs9kBt7m3tINkF3EiEs82AOTr8D1L2tr4tt-XLmKByRYHr11wbz9uNtL8hsMi3-eybhVL_AmBUNvXbEezKmYZuj7RkB0EgMYEBq61jho-6Mygr1jhFy1mOpxs1-3ynGa/s500/efa5176efc121f59147c92c299208782.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="338" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibo_tBmaRrASQWxs9kBt7m3tINkF3EiEs82AOTr8D1L2tr4tt-XLmKByRYHr11wbz9uNtL8hsMi3-eybhVL_AmBUNvXbEezKmYZuj7RkB0EgMYEBq61jho-6Mygr1jhFy1mOpxs1-3ynGa/s320/efa5176efc121f59147c92c299208782.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br />The seven elements of weather are <br />- temperature<br />- atmospheric pressure<br />- wind<br />- humidity<br />- precipitation<br />- visibility<br />- clouds<br />- sunshine duration<br />Select randomly one of each, and use them to describe your scene<p></p><p>Choose a natural disaster and write about that</p><p>Choose a climate zone and write about that</p><p>Choose a biome and write about that</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZiDRpH7TR3_tMMVQFmhOj3Q2jijkap9lOt6Fe_hUHpFbSjPe1jrSMEAndz2HU1aGO8gZAd_s8WPPABcKfTQCswqbS7qWBwr_KsC0crXswASqkJ-6HGha_NBGvnyVNsd9ZAMNwbqSaSJb/s564/e1bf3839e3f8f4da96ac093ebb9d29e8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnZiDRpH7TR3_tMMVQFmhOj3Q2jijkap9lOt6Fe_hUHpFbSjPe1jrSMEAndz2HU1aGO8gZAd_s8WPPABcKfTQCswqbS7qWBwr_KsC0crXswASqkJ-6HGha_NBGvnyVNsd9ZAMNwbqSaSJb/s320/e1bf3839e3f8f4da96ac093ebb9d29e8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Choose five of your favorite characters from copyright free literature, and write a scene about them finding themselves in the same place at the same time, in modern world. Why did they come to the place? Something happened to force them to co-operate and communicate. What? How will they solve the problem?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAuDlSuj6fBMaXwmJzEAkAj1PhSIvHRZL7QKV15P9X5ossA_WBVwkECIgsV0o5_9AN9ZYzuQVAY_UJE6EizcHSYrPgwS6BcWzZWQQdzaD8DS7T74Y9-iv0BC7ga2APK4pNEeOw-vVKWye/s736/a7fe3a35d5d8c938caa1cdb8a2b43e2e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="491" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggAuDlSuj6fBMaXwmJzEAkAj1PhSIvHRZL7QKV15P9X5ossA_WBVwkECIgsV0o5_9AN9ZYzuQVAY_UJE6EizcHSYrPgwS6BcWzZWQQdzaD8DS7T74Y9-iv0BC7ga2APK4pNEeOw-vVKWye/s320/a7fe3a35d5d8c938caa1cdb8a2b43e2e.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thefakeredhead.com/tfrs-prompt-library/">The Fake Redhead writing prompts</a></p><p>One kid in a big city is bored. School won’t be out for a couple of months. There are no holidays to look forward to. He or she wishes the family lived in the country. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdok6uLiMwOXdUKGq5O8yQJ3NvJ1BIaEQw3us2UDbl5uVzgwYOCOKA09VbBrtDIgK_rjnghHWRLndkjv05TSa7c3iOrX6lyINBx9RA6KTRj3e1pNfSQVeSslLSC-eWy4xPF_HP4QyEFZA/s564/7cb72a8d0b0682685cd855db7cc585f6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdok6uLiMwOXdUKGq5O8yQJ3NvJ1BIaEQw3us2UDbl5uVzgwYOCOKA09VbBrtDIgK_rjnghHWRLndkjv05TSa7c3iOrX6lyINBx9RA6KTRj3e1pNfSQVeSslLSC-eWy4xPF_HP4QyEFZA/s320/7cb72a8d0b0682685cd855db7cc585f6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ecdHiWP5w9BPUEUbJcwmuv0XaYuTEMKk40BVE51gWQpq6LxfWH9rqU6dMrD-l5fsPfDK8BHi3sf8LIKMBfnFfnXNkcnDWE9_kekUyXdGhWttGH4uKmME3nZJu-poduvbrT8nNfWgQYeB/s796/0424482b088a218fd358ebf9c75008c6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ecdHiWP5w9BPUEUbJcwmuv0XaYuTEMKk40BVE51gWQpq6LxfWH9rqU6dMrD-l5fsPfDK8BHi3sf8LIKMBfnFfnXNkcnDWE9_kekUyXdGhWttGH4uKmME3nZJu-poduvbrT8nNfWgQYeB/s320/0424482b088a218fd358ebf9c75008c6.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-35910581669557542522020-09-17T02:01:00.001-07:002020-09-17T02:01:44.101-07:00When it rains, it pours...<p> Two posts this Autumn! What an abundance! :-D</p><p>It's almost Mabon now. </p><p>I found these <a href="https://www.rubyrumsey.com/30-new-writing-prompts/">writing prompts</a> at Ruby Rumsey</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKdZeRwY_gBKsydbszIYF7lcchijDHA0mVmcuRA8ctbsrf5X3WzX1Z2uIWLi_QbYDS5KrIu4fVO57rdedHLSk9YkbnFmy85r7K64iCbSla_ELPobH1ut3n-H-yUR8uhuD8_ArNuScb7SlR/s1102/8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="735" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKdZeRwY_gBKsydbszIYF7lcchijDHA0mVmcuRA8ctbsrf5X3WzX1Z2uIWLi_QbYDS5KrIu4fVO57rdedHLSk9YkbnFmy85r7K64iCbSla_ELPobH1ut3n-H-yUR8uhuD8_ArNuScb7SlR/s320/8.png" /></a></div><br /><p>"What do you want? No, I mean, really want? No, really really want. Like more than anything. Like you would pay anything to have that, you would die to get it, you would kill to get it, you would do anything to get it... <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbdX05D8IlgneXXUoq1H3N5xMENzjmfcXsBNjOUEUqInbLw2rmhOgeSnm5_EnJet0cDCh3UKE6Wqc-kOymw082OhxCfFILHhwefzbsDfEC86Lv6wmbN4t7T50kHVK27E68GZsgBbazJHU/s220/tenor.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbdX05D8IlgneXXUoq1H3N5xMENzjmfcXsBNjOUEUqInbLw2rmhOgeSnm5_EnJet0cDCh3UKE6Wqc-kOymw082OhxCfFILHhwefzbsDfEC86Lv6wmbN4t7T50kHVK27E68GZsgBbazJHU/s0/tenor.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill"<br /></div><p><br /></p>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-41991884650458437262020-08-20T17:14:00.003-07:002020-08-20T17:14:27.330-07:00Almost a year later :-D<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yes, yes, I know, my blogs will never get followers, because I'm unreliable. No matter how good my blog post are... but - to the few loyal followers and those who happen upon this blog, here's some writing prompts<br />
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1) Think about your favorite fairytale or myth retelling.<br />
Retell <a href="https://mythopedia.com/celtic-mythology/gods/lugh/">the myth of Lugh</a><br />
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2) Tell a story about something that happens at sunset, or where the sunset plays an important role<br />
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4) A family made corn dollies, to find the next morning that they have come alive during the night...<br />
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5) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gingerbread_Man">The Gingerbread Man</a><br />
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6) Write about fruitfulness - as this is Pagan writing prompts, look at fruitfulness from a spiritual point of view.<br />
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7) Write about reaping - as this is Pagan writing prompts, look at fruitfulness from a spiritual point of view.<br />
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8) Write about prosperity - as this is Pagan writing prompts, look at fruitfulness from a spiritual point of view.<br />
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9) Write about first harvest, first fruits - as this is Pagan writing prompts, look at fruitfulness from a spiritual point of view.<br />
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10) write about transformation, purification, change and sacrifice - as this is Pagan writing prompts, look at fruitfulness from a spiritual point of view.<br />
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11) The Bread of Life<br />
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12) The Horn of Plenty<br />
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13) The Ever-flowing Cup<br />
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14) <a href="https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-groaning-board.htm">the Groaning Board </a><br />
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15) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo">Sampo</a><br />
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16) <a href="https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm036.html">Table-Be-Set, Gold-Donkey, and Cudgel-out-of-the-Sack </a><br />
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17) Write a story where a carnelian or an object made of carnelian plays a role<br />
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18) Write about what makes autumn autumn, whether things you like or things you hate.<br />
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19) Write your own cereal myth, how wheat, corn, spelt, what ever became to be and how people found it, and "tamed" it, about the first bread or porridge or what ever you think people made of cereals<br />
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20) August 12th was the Middle Child Day - celebrate the Middle Children by writing a story where your hero is one<br /><br />21) August 18th was the <a href="https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/mail-order-catalog-day/">Mail Order Catalogue day</a>. Write a story where a mail order catalogue or mail ordering plays a big role.<br /><br />22) Write "Lammas Night's Dream" or "Lammas Eve"<br /><br />23) Write a story about a rooster<br /><br />24) Write a story about a phoenix<br /><br />25) Write a story about a basilisk - where the basilisk is a good creature<br /><br />26) Read the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_(Slavic_folklore)"> Russian fairy tale about the Firebird</a> and then retell it<br /><br />
27) “Because somehow, the sun rises each day. Emerging from the horizon, brighter and more beautiful than the previous day. You'll rise from the horizon too, learning to trust again. Learning to love again. Learning to heal. You'll emerge so bright that the haters will be blinded. And darling, you'll be the sun then, bright and beautiful, but they won't be your sunflowers.”<br />
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28) “They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.”<br />― Enid Blyton, The Secret Island<br />
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29) “Forget who you are and why you're here-all that foolishness. In the woods the bushes are full of blueberries; go and pick some.”<br />― Marty Rubin<br />
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30) write a story about a family that goes to the woods to pick berries<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://themarlowebookshelf.blogspot.com/2010/09/blueberries-for-sal.html">Goodbye to summer and all its tall-grass, ripe berries, hazy days goodness.</a></span></div>
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32) August 22nd is the Tooth Fairy Day. Write about the Tooth Fairy<br />
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33) Take your favorite Christmas carol and write new lyrics to it, lyrics that fit Lammas, late summer, early autumn and August.<br />
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34) Write about deep greens, golden yellows, shimmering bronzes, tanned browns, the golds and browns of cereals and golden wheat fields, the dusty sage green of hay, <br />
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35) I lie amid the Goldenrod,<br />I love to see it lean and nod;<br />I love to feel the grassy sod<br />Whose kindly breast will hold me last,<br />Whose patient arms will fold me fast!—<br />Fold me from sunshine and from song,<br />Fold me from sorrow and from wrong:<br />Through gleaming gates of Goldenrod<br />I'll pass into the rest of God.<br /><br /> Mary Clemmer, Goldenrod, last stanza.<br />
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36) write about beer, hops, brewery... <br />
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37) write about bread and bakers<br />
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Some writing prompts from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20455499-1200-creative-writing-prompts">1200 Creative Writing Prompts by Melissa Donovan</a><br />
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38. Write a satirical story about an orphanage that is managed as if it were an animal shelter, or write about an animal shelter that is managed as if it were an orphanage. <br />
<br />39. Children are delighted when a mama cat gives birth to a litter of five orange tabbies and one little gray runt. <br />
<br />40. A single mother leaves her two teenage children home alone for the summer. <br />
<br />41. A woman has three children, all of whom are soldiers in a military that is at war. Within the span of three days, she learns that two of her children were killed in combat. Six weeks later, there’s a knock at the door. When she opens it, she finds her third child standing there — the same child who convinced the other two to enlist. <br />
<br />42. The protagonist is raking leaves on the lawn. He or she pauses for a breath and glances at the neighbors’ lawn. They never rake their leaves, the protagonist thinks, and their dog is always using my yard as a latrine. The protagonist decides to do something about these inconsiderate neighbors.<br />
<br />43. The year is 1623. A visitor arrives in a small, tribal village in Nigeria. The visitor is wearing blue jeans, an old rock-band t-shirt, and a fedora and is carrying a pack that contains a solar-powered laptop computer. <br />
<br />44. The protagonist walks into his or her house and it’s completely different — furniture, decor, all changed. It doesn’t look like the same house anymore. And no-body’s home. <br />
<br />45. Scientists have figured out how to create hybrids: dog-people, cat-insects, and bird-fish. One of their experiments goes terribly wrong and unleashes a swarm of hybrid predators on the population. <br />
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46. Two athletes competing (either at an individual sport or on opposing teams) get stuck somewhere together (broken-down bus in a remote location, elevator, etc.) and fall in love.<br />
<br />47. The Great Depression filled the space between America’s Prohibition (which was still in effect during the Depression) and World War II. The Depression affected the entire world. Well-to-do people lost everything and found themselves standing in food lines. Ordinary people went to extraordinary measures to get a meager meal. Meanwhile, someone, somewhere profited. <br /><br />
48. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Wait — no, it’s not! The holidays are cheesy. Bah humbug! <br /><br />
49. Two siblings capture a butterfly and a moth and proceed to argue over which insect is superior.<br />
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-77903001816681863962019-09-19T15:02:00.000-07:002019-09-19T15:02:03.259-07:00Fancy that...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
not a year later! Just three months and some :-)<br />
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Here's <a href="https://www.nownovel.com/blog/story-plot-ideas-8-sources/">story plot ideas</a><br />
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- collect ideas and inspiration - go through your collection every now and then and combine bits and bobs to see what happens<br />
- retell a story - tell the story from all the different characters' point of view.<br />
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- <a href="https://www.well-storied.com/blog/three-powerful-ways-to-brainstorm-new-story-ideas">idea brainstorming</a><br />
- get inspired by images, for example <a href="https://www.bmimages.com/galleries.asp">British Museum's collections</a><br />
- Try a story idea generator<br />
- Open a book to a random page and write out the first sentence your finger lands on.<br />
- Find a song you love and Google its lyrics.<br />
- google "photo a day" prompt list and freewrite about the theme <br />
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To get random results, go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia main page</a><br />
There's<br />
From today's featured article<br />
Did you know...<br />
In the news<br />
On this day<br />
and<br />
Today's featured picture<br />
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What I found inspiring on the page was<br />
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"did you know that the Roman temple of Bziza, dedicated to the Semitic god Azizos, was converted to a church by the Byzantines?"<br />
What if the God stayed in the temple (why wouldn't he), and is now being worshiped by all in that church, even though they say the Christian words?<br />
Also, interesting here is that Azizos was the God of Morning Star. And Lucifer was also Morning Star... So they are worshiping Lucifer in that church...<br />
Azizos was also associated with Ares. <br />
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"did
you know that Better Together's "The woman who made up her mind" advert
opposing Scottish independence so upset politician Sandra Grieve that
she changed her mind and began supporting independence?"<br />
Sounds interesting.<br />
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and Today's featured picture which was about Aletta Jacobs<br />
Sounds interesting. Someone should make a movie about her.<br />
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If you find nothing interesting, get a random number between 1 and 100.<br />
Take the word that comes up as that number in "from today's featured article" and make a google search with that word - then go to the result of that number -<br />
like today I got 43, the featured article was about James Park Woods, and the 43rd word was "force", and the 43rd google result was "Team Yankee Forces".<br />
Absolutely boring and not a bit inspiring to me :-D So, great that I was already inspired by what was on that page ;-)<br />
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-9839167284061603282019-06-06T10:18:00.000-07:002019-06-06T10:18:27.106-07:00June 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm improving! Only half a year since last visit!<br />
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I found this:<br />
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<a href="http://www.justinmclachlan.com/469/25-fantasy-writing-prompts/">25 Fantasy Writing Prompts</a><br />
and<br />
<a href="http://www.justinmclachlan.com/1716/scifi-and-fantasy-writing-prompts/">34 More Scifi and Fantasy Writing Prompts</a><br />
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It's about 2 weeks to Midsummer. Let's write about that.<br />
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Read about Midsummer celebrations around the world.<br />
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Now, create your ideal Midsummer celebration. Create a Pagan family with at least three generation. There should be children in the family. Tell about this family's Midsummer celebration.<br />
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If you would describe Midsummer with one word, what would that word be? Write a short story that embodies the word.<br />
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Write about what makes summer a summer, whether things you like or things you hate.<br />
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Write about fire. You can write about real fire, or the fire inside. <br />
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Write your own myth about how sun came to be.<br />
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Write about passion, love and sex<br />
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Write about parenthood<br />
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Find a myth about a Sun deity and retell that story<br />
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<a href="https://lithub.com/10-brilliant-retellings-of-classical-myths-by-female-writers/">10 brilliant retellings of classical myths</a><br />
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Write about the Yellow Rose of Texas.<br />
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Watch St.Elmo's Fire and write a Pagan version of it<br />
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June 2nd was International Sex Workers' Day - to create awareness for the problems and violence against sex workers. Do your part and write a story to make people aware of that sex workers are people, too, and should get the same rights and privileges as all the other workers. If you are against sex work, write about that.<br />
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Write your version of The Midsummer Night's Dream<br />
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What does honey mean to you? Write a story about honey - or honey wine, honey bread (gingerbread), or other honey derivate.<br />
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This is Russian honeycake. Bake it for Midsummer.</div>
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Write a story about an emerald.<br />
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Write a story about a horse.<br />
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Write a story about a robin. (The Secret Garden is one of the best known stories about a robin :-D)<br />
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Read the Russian fairy tale about the <a href="http://www.artrusse.ca/FairyTales/firebird.htm">Firebird</a> and then retell it<br />
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"He goes in and the door is shut. I think we will not open the door or follow him. </div>
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I think that just now we are not wanted there. </div>
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I think it will be best for us to go quickly and quietly away. </div>
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At the end of the field, among the thin gold spikes of grass</div>
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and the harebells and Gipsy roses and St. John's Wort, </div>
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we may just take one last look, over our shoulders, </div>
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at the white house where neither we nor anyone else is wanted now."<br />— E. Nesbit</div>
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Write a story about a day at the beach.<br />
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Write a story about the sights, scents, tastes, sensations and sounds of Midsummer<br /><br />Write about your favorite Midsummer food, drink, activity, decoration - When was the first time you remember eating the food? Is there a story involved in the decoration?<br />
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If you don't celebrate Midsummer, why the heck not!? <br />
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"You've never heard of the Trickster King?" Puck asked, shocked.<br />The girls shook their heads.<br />"The Prince of Fairies? Robin Goodfellow? The Imp?"<br />"Do you work for Santa?" Daphne asked.<br />"I'm a fairy, not an elf!" Puck roared. "You really don't know who I am! </div>
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Doesn't anyone read the classics anymore? Dozens of writers have warned about me. </div>
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I'm in the most famous of all of William Shakespeare's plays."<br />"I don't remember any Puck in Romeo and Juliet," Sabrina muttered, </div>
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feeling a little amused at how the boy was reacting to his non-celebrity.<br />"Besides Romeo and Juliet!" Puck shouted. "I'm the star of a Midsummer Night's Dream!"<br />"Congratulation," Sabrina said flatly. "Never read it."<br />— Michael Buckley (The Fairy-Tale Detectives) </div>
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What is your favorite summer song? Write a story about that.<br />
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Take your favorite Christmas carol and write new lyrics to it, lyrics that fit Midsummer, summer and June.<br />
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Write a story about Australia.<br />
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Learn more about the Australian Aborigines, and write a fantasy story with people based on the Aborigines.<br />
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June 5th is the Danish constitution day and June 6th is the Swedish national day (and May 17th was Norwegian independence day), and June 8th is the day the Vikings ransacked Lindisfarne - so write about vikings.<br />
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June 12th is World Day Against Child Labor - write about that<br />
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In many places Fathers' Day is celebrated in June. Write about fathers.<br />
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June 18th is International Picnic Day - write about a picnic.<br />
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June 20th is World Refugee Day. Write about a refugee.<br />
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Go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_deities">this list of solar deities</a>. Pick 10. Learn more about them. Find myths about them.<br />
Find a defining quality of your deities. For example, Eki, the Basque sun goddess is the protector of humanity and the enemy of all evil spirits. Now, think about how you could "help" her with this job<br /><br />
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"The dried yellow petals of St. John's wort, which Old Marie called
'chase-devil' </div>
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for the way it could drive the megrims away. Gaudy
calendula, bright as the sun. </div>
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Sweet-smelling lemon balm, guaranteed to
lift the spirits with its aroma alone."
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<a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16143.Kate_Forsyth" title="Kate Forsyth quotes">Kate Forsyth</a></div>
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-73109785520079092052019-01-11T04:39:00.001-08:002019-01-11T04:39:25.387-08:00January 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh, dear... it looks like I'm coming by this blog every 18 months or so... Well... better sometimes than never, huh?<br />
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1. What is an essential quality, property of a Pagan? Love of everything living? Free spirit? Tolerance? Write a story exhibiting this quality and presenting it as something desirable. Why do you think it is essential, and for Pagans?<br />
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2. Write a story about your everyday connection with the spiritual world. Things you do in mundane, everyday, normal situations, like meditating while doing the dishes or spellcasting while cooking.<br />
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3. What is your favorite fairytale (or one of them) and what is it teaching?<br />
For example, one of my favorites is Anahita, a Caucasian story, about a prince who fell in love with a poor girl, but she wasn't impressed by him. She demanded he learn an occupation before she marries him. He learned to weave rugs. They got married, and in time he became the king. Then, one day, he was out at war, was captured, and said he was a rug weaver, and asked if he could weave a rug to the foreign queen. His request was granted and he wove a code in the rug, so that his queen could come and rescue him.<br />
I think one of the teachings of this story is that your status can change quickly. A poor girl can become the queen, a prince can become a prisoner. It is good to learn skills to deal with any situation that arises.<br />
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5. Think back at your life. Do you see God's influence in it (God, Gods, higher power, spiritual force, something else similar). What are some lessons from God in your life?</div>
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9. The book's name is "Spicy". Write it.</div>
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Here's some suggestions: <a href="https://grandcentercreativewriting.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/january-writing-prompts/">January writing prompts</a></div>
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Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-72797239549624560792017-09-20T02:13:00.004-07:002017-09-20T02:13:52.431-07:00Prompts for Autumn 2017<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Have a lovely Autumn Equinox, how ever you celebrate it. Celebrate it, though.<br />
Why?<br />
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Study the traditions and beliefs associated with equinoxes. I believe in synchronicity and I believe there's a reason why people noticed the fact that the day and night were equally long twice a year. (And every other day on Equator :-D)<br />
Which consequences does this phenomena have? How does it show in your life?<br />
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And what about Autumn? Study the traditions and beliefs about Autumn and Autumntide. Why is it called "Fall"? Fall into what? From where?<br />
What is it called in other languages and why?<br />
In Germanic languages the names come from the same root as harvest.<br />
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"Ruska" is related to words like "aamurusko" (the lovely colors of sunrise), "ruskea" (brown, color of copper) and "rusottaa" (bloom, flourish, blush - it has nothing to do with roses, though, unless "rose" is a Finnougric loan to Indo-European languages.)<br />
(It is pronounced "rouss-kah")<br />
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Here's a reminder of an old site with <a href="http://pagan-prompt.livejournal.com/">Pagan prompts</a>. Even less frequented that my site... *blush*<br />
If you have already written yourself through it, take a second round.<br />
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<a href="https://writerswrite.co.za/using-myths-for-writing-prompts/">20 myths to use as writing prompts</a><br />
Write a myth to explain Autumn<br />
Create a religion, mystery play and ritual around this myth. Write your own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries">Eleusinian mysteries</a>.<br />
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Here's <a href="https://writerswrite.co.za/september-writing-prompts/">September Writing Prompts for 2016</a> and <a href="https://writerswrite.co.za/writing-prompts-september-2017/">2017</a><br />
and <a href="https://writerswrite.co.za/how-to-defeat-the-dreaded-blank-page-2/">October Writing Prompts for 2015</a> and <a href="https://writerswrite.co.za/october-writing-prompts/">2016</a><br />
GO <a href="https://writerswrite.co.za/how-to-defeat-the-dreaded-blank-page-2/">THERE </a>AND READ THE "HOW TO USE PROMPTS"!!! <br />
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1. Write every day. Keep paper and pen with you at all times so that you can write any time.<br />
2. Write by hand. And keep paper and pen with you at all times.<br />
3. Set a timer and write AT LEAST 10 minutes. (Or 5 minutes or 15 minutes or what ever time suits your circumstances.)<br />
4. Don't think. Write. Write without stopping. Just puts words on paper. After the 10 minutes (or 5 or 15) have gone, THEN you can start thinking and speculating and wondering and wandering and researching and letting that research lead you to other ideas. But the 10 minutes of prompt writing is just that. WRITE!<br />
5. Don't start thinking what you feel about the prompt or if it's interesting or anything like it. Don't try to find alternatives you'd like better. See it as a chore. You have to write 10 minutes of this thing. To be able to write about anything, you have to write about anything. Even the boring and uninspiring and unlikable stuff. You are a writer. Writers write. Write!<br />
6. Keep what you write for milking other ideas.<br />
7. Write prompts even when you are working on The Next Big Novel. It works as recreation while upkeeping your writing skills.</blockquote>
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The following 10 prompts (marked in cursive) are from <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4961793">1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts by Ryan Andrew Kinder </a><br />
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<i>Describe an important item from your childhood. Why was it important and where is it now?</i><br />
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Describe an event that happened in Autumn and that you think of every Autumn. If you don't have any such events, DO SOMETHING TO GET IT!<br />But... you don't know what that could be!<br />
Well... you thought about something... there was a fleeting thought, a hint, a touch, a scent of a thought, when you read that prompt. It might have been your memory, it might have been someone else's memory, it might have been a book you read or a movie you saw... but it was something. Catch it. <br />(BTW, I was thinking about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Me_(film)">Stand By Me</a>.)<br />
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<i>You find out that you will die in five years or less. How did you find this out? What would you do in those five years?</i><br />
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<i>You receive an unmarked envelope with a check for $5,000,000 inside. It's a legitimate check, what do you do with it? Do you ever find out who it is from? How does it change your life?</i><br />
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<i>You are granted one super power. What is the power and what do you do with it? </i><br />
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For pagan witches this can be adjusted a little. All the fantasy witch descriptions are true. Which ability would you choose to have and what do you do with it? <br />
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<i>Most everyone has had a near death experience, describe yours. If you've never had one before, create one. Embellish as much as possible.</i><br />
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<a href="https://iands.org/ndes/nde-stories/17-nde-accounts-from-beyond-the-light.html">17 Near-Death Experience Accounts from "Beyond the Light" </a> <br />
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<i>Describe the perfect home. Make that home come alive; put yourself in your mind in that place. How large or small is it? Where is it located?</i><br />
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<a href="http://hookedonhouses.net/2009/10/25/practical-magic-a-victorian-house-fit-for-a-witch/">Practical Magic: A Victorian House Fit For A Witch</a><br />
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<i>How were you named? If you feel that your name is boring and the story behind it equally so, make up a name and come up with an interesting story behind that.</i><br />
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<i>How'd you get that scar? Most everyone has a scar. Talk about it as if it you were about to get that scar for the first time. </i><br />
<i>Scar free? Then you need to invent one! </i><br />
<i>Or talk about another person's scar as if it was your own</i>.<br />
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"I remember a much watched video tape with Nureyev on the Dame Edna show, where he explained that the scar on his lip came about when he was a child and was so thin that he looked like a bone, so a dog tried to eat him"<a href="http://chirayliq.blogspot.se/2009/02/rudolf-nureyev.html">Chirayliq: Rudolf Nureyev</a></blockquote>
I remember that he used to jokingly tell it was from a duel with swords :-D<br />
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<i>You've awoken as the opposite gender. What do you do with this newfound switch? If you don't identify as any sort of gender, pretend that you are forced by the government to identify. What is your life like?</i><br />
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You are given the option for immortality. Do you take it or do you decline?<br />
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<a href="https://writetodone.com/the-tarot-as-a-tool-for-writing-your-novel/">The tarot as writing tool </a><br />
Now, there are dozens of divination methods, and you can use them all. BTW, I just found out about this new (to me) divination method called "junk oracle". It's based on bone oracle, you collect small things in a bag, and throw them on a cloth, and read what you see... one could make such a bag with the characters of your latest novel, and some symbols of events, happenings etc. and cast this on a cloth to get new ideas about what might happen in the book. Remember to throw in some ninjas ;-)<br />
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<br />Take your favorite Pagan themed book, open it in random and use the first sentence you read as your prompt.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/review/the-chronicles-of-harris-burdick-14-amazing-authors-tell-the-tales-by-chris-van-allsburg-and-othersillustrated-by-chris-van-alls.html">Choose Your Own Adventure: Chris Van Allsburg’s “Mysteries of Harris Burdick” </a><br /><i><br />"and there is Van Allsburg’s own nifty contribution, a tale of two caterpillars who know the secrets of the universe and how to communicate them but are a bit pressed for time."</i><br />
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What if... the secrets of the universe are written on the wings of butterflies, and we just have forgotten how to read?</div>
Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-86888679259793584512015-03-05T02:28:00.000-08:002015-03-05T02:33:00.287-08:00Writing prompts for March 2015After a year and a half... I'm back. <br />
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Now, it's two weeks to Ostara, and this time Spring Equinox is pretty amazing with the solar eclipse.<br />
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I have three prompts for today:<br />
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This is the astrological chart for Ostara 2015 <br />
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<b>Write about what you see.</b><br />
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Watch <b><a href="http://www.solar-revolution-movie.com/">Solar (R)Evolution</a></b> the movie. I won't be putting in a link to the movie, because I don't want to alarm the people watching over copyright... I believe this movie is something everyone should see, and I think I would be watching it several times, but I don't have money and I believe there are others out there with no money. If you can purchase it, great! <br />
Be warned though. It's very heavy. I had to take some time off from the movie several times, it was just too much to digest at once.<br />
Now, this is MY opinion, and if you think the movie is boring and stupid, it's OK.<br />
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The third prompt is <b>"living planet"</b><br />
Watch <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/reference">Avatar</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/reference">Final Fantasy; The Spirits Within</a><br />
then read this: <a href="http://www.livescience.com/19397-living-planet-pandora.html">Could Living Planets Exist? </a><br />
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Ponder the possibilities. If you think the answer is "no" and all this is poppycock, go ahead and write that. Write a story about a person trying to fight the superstitions and paranormal beliefs people have. If you think the answer is "yes", write about such a planet.<br />
If you think the answer is "yes, and we live on it/her/him", write a story about the awakening awareness of Gaia.<br />
<br />Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-76231021085131221252013-07-31T09:58:00.003-07:002013-07-31T10:06:56.655-07:00Lammas inspirationLammas - Lughnasadh - loafmas is in a couple of days. I have always celebrated it the second of August. <br />
How about you?<br />
Do you celebrate Lammas or any other Sabbath at this time of the year? It's the First Day of Autumn. <br />
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I absolutely hate corn circles! I wish every idiot involved in making them would starve to death! But what do you think? Aliens? Fairies? Idiots?<br />
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Write a story based on corn circles and the people who make them. I think I would write about some idiots who get punished by Goddess and sidhe and nature spirits for ruining the crop.<br />
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Read about Lammas/Lughnasadh.<br />
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What would your ideal Lammas be? Create a family - of one, two, parents and children, or more generations, or households, and describe their Lammas celebration.<br />
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If you had to describe Lammas with only one word, what would that word be? Write a story about that word, or that expresses everything you associate with that word. <br />
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If you need more than one, write a story of all of them.<br />
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What does bread mean to you?<br />
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Write about cider, beer, ale, mead<br />
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"The Circle of Life"<br />
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Write a story about harvest festival<br />
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Write a story about a storyteller<br />
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Write a story with a rooster<br />
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It is Dog Days - Write a story <br />
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Write a story about a big dinner outside with family and friends<br />
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First week of August is the International Clown Week - Write a story about clowns or with a clown<br />
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Write a story about prosperity<br />
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Write a story about a corn festival<br />
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Write about sunflowers, poppies, cornflowers, chamomille, marigolds, heather<br />
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"From time immemorial heather has been used for making besoms, a practice recorded in Buy Broom Buzzems (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Buzzem">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Buzzem</a>) </blockquote>
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"Heather honey is a highly valued product in moorland and heathland areas, with many beehives being moved there in late summer. Not always as valued as it is today, it was dismissed as mel improbum by Dioscurides. Heather honey has a characteristic strong taste, and an unusual texture, for it is thixotropic, being a jelly until stirred, when it becomes a syrup like other honey, but then sets again to a jelly."</blockquote>
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<i>She sat on his thighs, her head against his breast, and her ivory-gleaming legs loosely apart, the fire glowing
unequally upon them. Sitting with his head dropped, he looked at the folds of her body in the fire-glow, and at the
fleece of soft brown hair that hung down to a point between her open thighs. He reached to the table behind, and took up
her bunch of flowers, still so wet that drops of rain fell on to her.</i><br />
<i>‘Flowers stops out of doors all weathers,’ he said. ‘They have no houses.’</i><br />
<i>‘Not even a hut!’ she murmured.</i><br />
<i>With quiet fingers he threaded a few forget-me-not flowers in the fine brown fleece of the mound of Venus.</i><br />
<i>‘There!’ he said. ‘There’s forget-me-nots in the right place!’</i><br />
<i>She looked down at the milky odd little flowers among the brown maiden-hair at the lower tip of her body.</i><br />
<i>‘Doesn’t it look pretty!’ she said.</i><br />
<i>‘Pretty as life,’ he replied.</i><br />
<i>And he stuck a pink campion-bud among the hair.</i><br />
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<i>D.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover, chapter 15 </i></blockquote>
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Write a story with a phoenix<br />
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Write a story about a day at the lake in late summer<br />
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Write a story about the sights, scents, tastes, sensations and sounds of Lammas<br />
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Write about your favorite Lammas food, drink, activity, decoration - When was the first time you remember eating the food? Is there a story involved in the decoration?<br />
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Write a story about your favorite Lammas song (or a song that fits the themes of Lammas (or first day of Autumn, late Summer days...) <br />
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Write a Lammas song.<br />
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August is the National Literacy Month - Write a story about your favorite book<br />
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What is your favorite fruit bread? Write a story and give the recipe :-D<br />
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Write a story about your favorites berries, or berry picking<br />
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What is your favorite preserve? Jellies, jams, chutneys, pickles... Write a story about that :-D <br />
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Think about what immaterial things you have harvested this year and how you can preserve that; skills, knowledge, wisdom... Write a story about that too :-D <br />
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How about the negative things: what negative consequences of your choices, actions, words and deeds do you see in your life? <br />
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If you made New Year's promises or are participating in "100 things in 1001 days" or similar, now it's time to see how you are doing. Write a story about this. <br />
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Write a story about your biggest regrets in your life - or in the past year <br />
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Write a story about all the things you want to leave behind in your life, all the things you regret having in your life, all the things you want to get rid of, bad habits, addictions, thought patterns you are caught into, negativity, concerns, worries, troubles...<br />
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August is the International breastfeeding Month - Write a story to promote breastfeeding<br />
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Write a story with a corn dolly<br />
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Write an indigo story.<br />
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You have been invited to a fire festival.<br />
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Catherine Wheel <br />
"A ceremony performed at Lammas. A large wagon wheel would be taken to a hilltop, covered in tar, set afire and sent rolling down the hill."<br />
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Herb harvest. What is your favorite herb?<br />
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Write a story with a gryphon<br />
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July is the National Blueberry and Blackberry month - Write a story about blue- and blackberries<br />
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Fishing wasn’t the only summer fun. Some July evening Father would say:<br />
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“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Tomorrow we’ll go berrying.”<br />
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Almanzo didn’t say anything, but inside he was all one joyful yell.<br />
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Before dawn next day they were all riding away in the lumber-wagon, wearing their oldest clothes and taking pails and bushel baskets and a big picnic lunch. They drove far into the mountains near Lake Chateaugay, where the wild huckleberries and blueberries grew.<br />
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The woods were full of other wagons, and other families berrying. They laughed and sang, and all among the trees you could hear their talking. Every year they all met friends here, that they didn’t see at any other time. But all of them were busily picking berries; they talked while they worked.<br />
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The leafy low bushes covered the ground in open spaces among the trees. Blue-black berries clustered thickly under the leaves, and there was a syrupy smell in the hot, still sunshine.<br />
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Birds had come to feast in the berry-patches; the air was aflutter with wings, and angry blue jays flew scolding at the heads of the pickers. Once two blue jays attacked Alice’s sunbonnet, and Almanzo had to beat them off. And once he was picking by himself, and behind a cedar tree he met a black bear.<br />
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The bear was standing on his hind legs, stuffing berries into his mouth with both furry paws. Almanzo stood stock still, and so did the bear. Almanzo stared, and the bear stared back at him with little, scared eyes above his motionless paws. Then the bear dropped on all fours and ran waddling away into the woods.<br />
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At noon the picnic baskets were opened by a spring, and all around in the cool shade people ate and talked. Then they drank at the spring and went back to the berry-patches.<br />
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Early in the afternoon the bushel baskets and all the pails were full, and Father drove home. They were all a little sleepy, soaked in sunshine and breathing the fruity smell of berries.<br />
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For days Mother and the girls made jellies and jams and preserves, and for every meal there was huckleberry pie or blueberry pudding.<br />
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy</blockquote>
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Baking day<br />
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August is the National Napping Month - Write a story about the joys of napping :-D<br />
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Write a story about a legend of "Sleepers", like king Arthur (July 27th is "seven sleepers" <a href="http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/seven_sleepers.html">http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/seven_sleepers.html</a>)<br />
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Write a story about a craft festival or Maker Faire<br />
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Write a story involving a wheat field<br />
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Write a story about thunder<br />
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Write a story about horses<br />
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Write a story about riding a hobby horse (or a broom ;))<br />
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First week of August is the National Smile Week - Write a story about smiling and smiles<br />
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You and your friends are going to watch a game. What game? What is your favorite sport and sports team?<br />
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Write a story inspired by sun<br />
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Write a story inspired by the legend of Lugh<br />
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Write a story with or inspired by lions<br />
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Write a story about the Tarot card "Wheel of Fortune"<br />
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First week of August is Simplify your life week - which 50 items you couldn't / wouldn't want to live without :-D Write about a hoarder and how she/he manages to turn her/his life around and declutter, and what happens then<br />
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Write a story about pop corn.<br />
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August is the Pooh Friendship Month - Write a story about Winnie the Pooh and his friends :)<br />
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Write a story with elder and elderberries<br />
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Write a story about Demeter or Ceres<br />
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Write a story with full moon, Harvest Moon<br />
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Write a story with peridots, citrines and yellow diamonds<br />
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August is the "Admit you're happy" month - Write a story about 5 things in your life that make you happy :)<br />
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August 1st 2010 is the Friendship Day :) Write a story to honor your friends :)<br />
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Write a story inspired by cereals, grain, corn<br />
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Write a story inspired by fire<br />
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Write a story about St. Catherine and St. Laurentius (Corn Goddess and God in a Christian form ;))<br />
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Write a story with your favorite fictional parents<br />
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Write about a kitchen<br />
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Write about late summer, early autumn... about the changes in weather, that makes the air a bit chilly at night, but the days are still as warm as ever... about the subtle reminders of that summer is about to end. About the promise of autumn and harvest days ahead.<br />
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Write a story about John Barleycorn<br />
<a href="http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/robert-burns.html">http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/robert-burns.html</a>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-76145815818271336592013-05-30T01:06:00.001-07:002013-05-30T01:06:19.215-07:0050 + 50<a href="http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/assign/e50xs1.htm">50 exercises for story writers</a><br />
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<a href="http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/assign/e50xs2.htm">50 exercises for fiction writers</a><br />
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I have been reading Madeleine L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time quadrology and I love it. It is very empowering and makes me love the whole world and everyone in it.<br />
<br />I came to think about Inspirational Fiction, and how tightly the concept is tied to Christianity, especially in North America.<br />
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Now... what do you think when you hear "faith-based fiction"? <br />
<br />How could you infuse your writing with your spiritual beliefs? <br />How could you write characters that are very clearly Pagan, by showing, not telling?<br />What is being a Pagan? What kind of inspiration do you feel you get from your spirituality?<br />How could you bring your faith "into the mainstream, both religiously and culturally"?<br />How can you "celebrate Gods' presence in the Pagan lives"? How do you show the Divine influence in the events and outcome? How do you write a story, where the main character's Paganity is the thing that gets her/him through the hardship life throws at her/him?<br />How do you create characters, whose relationship to God, whose spirituality, faith and beliefs are the primary focus, without writing a "point-finger" book? <br />How do you put a stamp of Paganity to your writing, without it being blaring.<br />
What do you find inspirational? What qualities would you want in your life? Love, hope, something else?<br />
How to write a positive, uplifting novel without getting too Pollyanne-y?<br />
How could you inspire people to do better, think higher, be kinder, or other things you wish to inspire in people?<br />
How do you write a book that makes people want to share your spirituality without trying to convert people, or making them feel as if you are trying to push your faith on them?<br />
<br />I have been thinking that my writing needs to be commercial, and Paganity isn't commercial - I think. But - I am to write books I want to read. I would love to write books like Wrinkle in Time or Narnia books, infused with the author's beliefs without pushing them to your face. I would like to write books like Mary Poppins and Wind in the Willows, which are to me very Pagan, but not so Pagan it is obvious to every reader. As far as I know, neither has ever got to "banned books" lists. :-D<br />And there are Pagans who read. I would like to get more books where the characters "are like the reader", a Pagan. "ordinary people who are challenged to live their lives in accordance with Pagan principles." Pagans are people too.<br />
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<i>"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"</i><br />
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And all the people want to read books where the main character shares qualities with them - like being a human :-DKetutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-87582612695044280242013-05-08T10:35:00.000-07:002013-05-08T10:35:00.052-07:00As you have noticed...I'm really bad at this blogging thing. Simply because I write seldom and publish rarely.<br />
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So - what to do for those days, when you wish you had writing prompts, but you can't find any?<br />
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Prepare for that day.<br />
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Collect writing prompts.<br />
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Collect writing prompts from every source you can find.<br />
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Print them out, write them on index cards, create a system that works for you. I think it would be nice to have like ATCs... big enough for pictures, small enough to comfortably have just one word written on them. <br />
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Adjust them to fit your beliefs, preferences, circumstances, etc. I mean, just because you are Pagan, doesn't mean you cannot be inspired by Christian writing prompts. We are all human.<br />
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You can write from the same prompt several times, you know. :-D<br />
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Those days when you don't need someone to suggest you what to write, write down your ideas in your writer's journal, and use them as writing prompts those days you can't find anything elsewhere. <br />
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Is today a special day? What is being celebrated today, where and why? What happened in history this day?<br />
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There's an ocean of oracle cards, divination cards, tarot cards and like. <br />
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/03/tell-me-a-story-3-games-of-creative-storytelling/2/">Story-World Create-A-Story cards</a>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-81193309725589887982013-04-28T09:48:00.000-07:002013-04-28T09:48:00.302-07:00Still April! Wow!<br />
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Write a praise of your favorite springtime food and/or drink.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sonomanews.com/Sonoma-Magazine/Spring-2009/In-praise-of-asparagus/">In praise of asparagus</a><br />
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There is a Finnish book called "the restaurant of goose pen", where different Finnish authors have written about food. There are recipes, memories, gastronomical thoughts, and all kinds of things written about food. <br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Trout-Black-Truffles-Perigrinations/dp/0897331346">Blue Trout and Black Truffles: The Perigrinations of an Epicure by Joseph Wechsberg </a><br />
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Try to mediate the sensations eating this food creates in you, the scents and views, the feeling of first mouthful... try to make your readers want to eat this too...<br />
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<a href="http://www.abebooks.com/books/penguin-cooking-cookery-writing/great-food-series.shtml">Great Food series</a>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-65624363692434108262013-04-18T09:14:00.004-07:002013-04-18T09:14:57.380-07:00Well, well... still April :-)With less than two weeks to Beltane. <br />
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<a href="http://www.polyvore.com/900_cant_sleep_tonight/set?id=17161496&lid=433074"> Can't Sleep Tonight by Ketutar</a></div>
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You know the song "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessun_dorma">Nessun Dorma</a>"? </div>
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1. Describe Beltane with one word. Write about that word.<br />
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2. What would your ideal Beltane be?<br />
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3. Handfasting <br />
Write about your ideal handfasting, write about a handfasting where everything goes wrong, or just something, and how it changed the whole thing.<br />
Think about all the weddings you have encountered, and think about the stories about and around the event.<br />
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4. Morris dancing, clogs... <br />
Terry Pratchett wrote a fantastic piece about clog dancing in "Lords and Ladies"<br />
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The Lancre Morris Men faced one another, rain plastering their clothes to their bodies. Carter, tears of terror mingling with make-up<br />
and the rain, squeezed the accordion. There was the long-drawn-out chord that by law must precede all folk music to give bystanders time to get away Jason held up his hand and counted his fingers.<br />
"One, two..." His forehead wrinkled. "One, two, three..."<br />
". . . four..." hissed Tinker.<br />
". . . four," said Jason. "Dance, lads!"<br />
Six heavy ash sticks clashed in mid-air.<br />
". . . one, two, forward, one, back, spin. . ."<br />
Slowly, as the leaky strains of Mrs. Widgery's Lodger wound around the mist, the dancers leapt and squelched their way slowly through the night. . .<br />
". . . two, back, jump..."<br />
The sticks clashed again.<br />
"They're watching us!" panted Tailor, as he bounced past Jason, "I can see 'em!"<br />
". . . one... two... they won't do nothing 'til the music stops!... back, two, spin... they loves music!... forward, hop, turn... one and six, beetle crushers!... hop, back, spin..."<br />
"They're coming out of the bracken!" shouted Carpenter, as the sticks met again.<br />
"I see 'em... two, three, forward, turn... Carter... back, spin... you do a double... two, back... wandering angus down the middle..."<br />
"I'm losing it, Jason!"<br />
"Play!... two, three, spin..."<br />
"They're all round us!"<br />
"Dance!"<br />
"They're watching us! They're closing in!"<br />
". . .spin, back... jump... we're nearly at the road..."<br />
"Jason!"<br />
"Remember when... three, turn... we won the cup against Ohulan Casuals?... spin..."<br />
The sticks met, with a thump of wood against wood. Clods of earth were kicked into the night.<br />
"Jason, you don't mean-"<br />
". . . back, two... do it... "<br />
"Carter's getting... one, two... out of wind..." <br />
". . . two, spin. . ."<br />
"The accordion's melting, Jason," sobbed Carter. <br />
". . . one, two, forward... bean setting!"<br />
The accordion wheezed. The elves pressed in. Out of the corner of his eye Jason saw a dozen grinning, fascinated faces.<br />
"Jason!"<br />
". . . one, two... Carter into the middle... one, two, spin. . ."<br />
Seven pairs of boots thudded down...<br />
"Jason!"<br />
". . . one, two... spin... ready... one, two... back... back... one, two... turn... KILL... and back, one, two. . ."</blockquote>
Intriguing? It should be... find the book and read it.<br />
If you have already read it once, re-read it (unless you absolutely hated it. I mean... I LOVE Terry Pratchett... I love his weird sense of humor, his brilliance, his constant twixing with things, turning things upside down, taking sayings literally, or mixing them up... I never know what I get when I read Terry Pratchett, but I know it's going to be good. :-) <br />
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5. Which is your favorite love couple from a book?<br />
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6. Which smells and scents do you associate with Beltane?<br />
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7. What is your favorite spring flower?<br />
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9. April 28th is "Kiss your mate" day<br />
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10. <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/bc/KensGodRules/Celtic/Doc/Mirror.html">Magic mirror.</a>.. Snow White's stepmother had one. Galadriel had one. What would yours do? Do you know any mirror magic?<br />
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<i>"The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also." </i><br />
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12. What do you really know about elves, fairies and other such beings?<br />
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14. <a href="http://www.classicreader.com/book/132/7/">The Piper at the Gates of Dawn</a><br />
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15. Green... as simple as that. What does the color green mean to you? What does it symbolize in your own symbol world? Why do you think the color of Beltane is green?<br />
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16.<a href="http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/beltanemayday/p/GreenMan.htm"> Green Man</a><br />
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Yes. I know. It's a Christian song. Composed as one, sang as one, meant never to be anything else.<br />
Nevertheless, there is only on Lord of the Dance and He's not Jesus.<br />
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18. <a href="http://www.sarahsawyer.com/2010/12/mythic-creatures-the-white-stag/">The White Stag</a><br />
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19. <a href="http://www.mythicalrealm.com/legends/labelle.html"> La Belle Dame Sans Merci </a><br />
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20.<i> "A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top." </i>— Confucius<br />
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21. <a href="http://www.edinahistoricalsociety.org/1/post/2012/05/celebrate-history-with-may-day-basket-tradition.html">The May Basket</a> <br />
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23. May 1st is the international workers' day.<br />
Even if you are not a Socialist, it doesn't harm to show appreciation to all the work people do. The world would stop quickly if no-one worked. Write a praise for workers and bodily work. <br />
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24. Aphrodite... Do you think She was a benevolent Goddess?<br />What about<a href="http://www.greeka.com/greece-myths/eros-psyche.htm"> Eros and Psyche</a>? <br />
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25. Friendship Bracelet<br />
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26. Daisy Chain <br />
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If these names are not enough to inspire you to write something, google "daisy chain short story" or "friendship bracelet short story" <br />
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27. <br />
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<i>The fair maid who, the first of May</i><br />
<i>Goes to the fields at break of day</i><br />
<i>And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree</i><br />
<i>Will ever after handsome be</i></blockquote>
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28. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_in_the_green">Jack-in-the-Green</a>, <a href="http://www.boldoutlaw.com/puckrobin/puck.html">Robin Goodfellow or Puck</a> <br />
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Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?<br />With his long tail hanging down.<br />He sits quietly under every tree ---<br />in the folds of his velvet gown.<br />He drinks from the empty acorn cup<br />the dew that dawn sweetly bestows.<br />And taps his cane upon the ground ---<br />signals the snowdrops it's time to grow.<br /><br />It's no fun being Jack-In-The-Green ---<br />no place to dance, no time for song.<br />He wears the colours of the summer soldier ---<br />carries the green flag all the winter long.<br /><br />Jack, do you never sleep ---<br />does the green still run deep in your heart?<br />Or will these changing times,<br />motorways, powerlines,<br />keep us apart?<br />Well, I don't think so ---<br />I saw some grass growing through the pavements today.<br /><br />The rowan, the oak and the holly tree<br />are the charges left for you to groom.<br />Each blade of grass whispers Jack-In-The-Green.<br />Oh Jack, please help me through my winter's night.<br />And we are the berries on the holly tree.<br />Oh, the mistlethrush is coming.<br />Jack, put out the light.</div>
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29. Write a character you think is smoking hot... he/she doesn't need to be a believable person, he/she doesn't need dimensions or any good qualities, he/she is not after a romantic relationship, making friends, not even talking with anyone. He/she only wants one thing, and when you meet him, that's the only thing in your mind as well... you would sacrifice anything just for one night... you would leave your children, you would leave your spouse, your friends, your family... you would sell your honor and pride, you would walk from your grandmother's dying bed, just to have a quickie in the hospital's cleaning room... He/she works on you like Axe in the ad. <br />
30. Write a love poem. <br />
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32. <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/246/390.html">Come Into The Garden, Maud</a>... <br />
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33. <i>"Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side..."</i><br /><br />
What is your favorite musical instrument? Write about it. <br />
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Think about the movie "Red Violin", for inspiration.<br />
Think about "The Piano".<br />
Think about Moria and the drums... oh, the drums... <br />
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Agatha Christie has written a collection of short stories called "The Hound of Death", and in it is a short story called "The Call of Wings"... and in it is a description of a man playing an instrument... sort of a flute.<br />
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34. The Indian festival of Holi. <br />
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35. May Pole<br />
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36. Bonfire<br />
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About these three, of course you may write anything you like, but if you need more inspiration, describe what you would experience if you were to participate in such celebration.<br />
I was thinking about <a href="http://www.markscott.f9.co.uk/thelostland/green.htm">Susan Cooper's Greenwitch</a>, and the making of the Greenwitch. It is a simple description, but very well written. Now, of course, I happen to love Susan Cooper, so your experience might be different.<br />
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37. Think about movies... think about a sexy scene. Why do you think it was so effective? <br />I personally think one of the most erotic scenes in a movie was the one in which Don Juan de Marco seduced the woman in the restaurant... <br />
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38. birds - song birds - spring birds singing - love birds...<br />
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39.<i> </i><br />
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<i>"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. <br />So throw off the bowlines. <br />Sail away from the safe harbor. <br />Catch the trade winds in your sails. <br />Explore. <br />Dream. <br />Discover." <br />— Mark Twain </i> </blockquote>
40. <a href="http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/bookofshadows/ig/Magical-Herbs/Clover.htm">Clover </a><br />
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And then, one more: May Day is a good day to think about environment, the nature spirits, green thinking, ecology, Gaia and other such things.<br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/dec/07/why-rachel-carson-is-a-saint">Rachel Carson wrote a book called Silent Spring</a>, that still converts people to think more about the planet than themselves. She was just a person. Just a writer. Like you...Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-33566625302090597882013-04-01T04:51:00.001-07:002013-04-01T04:51:07.202-07:00Oh, dang...I had forgot all about this blog...<br />
sorry *blush*<br />
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So - it's April. April 1st, actually... April Fools' day.<br />
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I hate April Fools. I hate practical jokes. In our family this day is the Contrary Day.<br />
Today we'll do things in the reverse order, eat dessert for breakfast and breakfast for dinner.<br />
We eat things we don't usually eat. <br />
We'll wear mittens in feet and the sweater as pants.<br />
We turn left when we are supposed to go right.<br />
We do the things we are most afraid to do.<br />
We do the exact opposite of what we are asked to do<br />
We especially mote our negative thoughts and words. If I tell myself I'm ugly, I say "no, you're wrong, I'm beautiful!"<br />
It's a "yes!" day, a day of trying out new things, taking new paths, thinking new thoughts...<br />
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So - here's a couple of prompts to you:<br />
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- Learn about the tarot fool and write a Fool's Journey<br />
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- Learn about the Holy Fools<br />
<a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos135.htm">http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos135.htm</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness_for_Christ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foolishness_for_Christ</a><br />
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<br />Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-39801394046011961832011-09-13T07:30:00.000-07:002011-09-13T07:30:22.500-07:00Writing prompts for Autumn1) Gods place a spell over earth so that humans cannot pollute the earth anymore...<br />
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- <a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/fall.writing.prompts.html">Fall writing prompts </a><br />
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3) what do you associate with Fall?<br />
For example:<br />
- "Ruska" - the changing of colors in Autumn, Autumn leaves<br />
- apples, plums, grapes, peaches, pears...<br />
- harvest<br />
- crisp, clean air, rains and storms, wind<br />
- umbrellas and boots<br />
- mushroom<br />
- red hair, foxes<br />
- acorns, nuts, pinecones<br />
- apple picking, apple cider, apple pie<br />
- pumpkins, pumpkin spice, pumpkin pie<br />
- school, studies, learning<br />
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4) Mabon, Autumn Equinox celebration, Fall feasts - what ever you celebrate at Autumn<br />
- write a story of a child's holiday<br />
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- <a href="http://citadelofthedragons.tripod.com/mabon.html">Mabon by Citadel of the Dragons </a><br />
- <a href="http://www.wicca.com/celtic/akasha/mabon.htm">Mabon by Akasha</a><br />
- <a href="http://www.earthwitchery.com/mabon.html">Mabon by EarthWitchery</a><br />
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You really don't need to follow a Celtic tradition. Mabon is just another name for Autumn Equinox, and most Pagans I know celebrate that in some way or manner. If you don't, you should!<br />
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5) <a href="http://www.cape.k12.mo.us/blanchard/hicks/internet%20pages/fall%20projects.htm">Falling for Autumn</a><br />
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6) <i>"Mythical creatures include phoenix, gryphons, basilisk, centaurs, gnomes, minotaurs, sphinx, cyclopes, andamans and gulons."</i><br />
What are these and how are they connected to Autumn Equinox. Write a story about your favorite mythological creature from this list.<br />
You know, I have always been interested in mythological creatures. I find all the stories about vampires, angels and weres just as interesting as the next girl. I believe there to be potential for ALL the mythological creatures, not only to unicorns and dragons... So - do your best to make these creatures just as interesting, fascinating and sexy as any vampire. Gulons, btw, are wolverines...<br />
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7) <a href="http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=11257">paint chip writing</a><br />
<a href="http://www.coloria.net/bonus/colornames.htm">Here's</a> a long and colourful list of colour names... You don't need paint chips.<br />
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8) Most of us have a dream-me, very different from the everyday-me... Write about her day. What would she do if she was sitting there by the computer now?<br />
(The natural consequence of that would be that you realize your dream-me is not impossible, unattainable dream, but you dream of that life because it is what Goddess meant you to live... If you realize what your dream-me would do right now, and did it, you would have taken the first steps to becoming your dream-me... and wouldn't that be nice? Really... what's stopping you? Is it really that big a deal?)<br />
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9) "Youth is a luxury waisted on young people"... so... what if you were 18 again. What would you do? What would you study? What if you were young again, with everything you know now. What would you do differently?<br />
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10) Write about <br />
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- The smells of autumn<br />
- The sights of autumn<br />
- The sounds of autumn<br />
- The touch of autumn<br />
- The tastes of autumn<br />
<a href="http://www.creativity-portal.com/howto/writing/fall.writing.prompts.html">- fall writing prompts</a><br />
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<blockquote>Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.<br />
~Albert Camus<br />
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For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad. <br />
~Edwin Way Teale<br />
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. <br />
~P.D. James<br />
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Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. <br />
~Carol Bishop Hipps<br />
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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. <br />
~Stanley Horowitz<br />
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace<br />
As I have seen in one autumnal face.<br />
~John Donne<br />
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October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.<br />
~Nova Bair<br />
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. <br />
~Hal Borland<br />
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October gave a party;<br />
The leaves by hundreds came -<br />
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,<br />
And leaves of every name.<br />
The Sunshine spread a carpet,<br />
And everything was grand,<br />
Miss Weather led the dancing,<br />
Professor Wind the band.<br />
~George Cooper, "October's Party"<br />
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. <br />
~John Burroughs<br />
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There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! <br />
~Percy Bysshe Shelley<br />
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan,<br />
That dances as often as dance it can,<br />
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,<br />
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.<br />
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />
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Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. <br />
Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. <br />
~Samuel Butler<br />
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Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. <br />
~Elizabeth Lawrence<br />
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. <br />
I think, I too, have known autumn too long.<br />
e. e. cummings<br />
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Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.<br />
Robert Browning Hamilton<br />
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But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.<br />
Gordon Parks<br />
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By all these lovely tokens September days are here, <br />
With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.<br />
Helen Hunt Jackson<br />
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.<br />
George Eliot<br />
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I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, <br />
things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.<br />
- Mark Van Doren</blockquote> 12) I live so high up North that summernights are light. We don't see the stars before Autumn comes... <br />
<i>"Stars blazed in the night sky."</i><br />
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14) "Johnny Appleseed, born Sept. 26, 1774, has been credited with establishing apple nurseries throughout the Midwest."<br />
Write about a witch who starts planting trees all over your homecountry... recreating the medieval forests, from Northern border to the Southern, from East to West... Then go out and plant some trees.<br />
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15) What is your favorite fall memory?<br />
Write about it. Be sure to tell who it involved, what happened, when it happened, where it occurred, and why it is a favorite memory.<br />
-<a href="http://www.theholidayzone.com/autumn/writing.html"> writing prompts for Fall</a><br />
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16) "<a href="http://listmakercollective.blogspot.com/2007/09/amazing-things-to-do-in-autumn.html">Amazing things to do in Autumn</a>"<br />
Write your list. Then write a description on why it's amazing, or how your day would be if you did this and everything went just as well as you hoped for... even better... that something unexpected and amazing happened...<br />
<a href="http://www.backyardnature.net/101/fall.htm">Nature oriented list</a><br />
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17) "As a transitional season, fall evokes many feelings about things such as the passage of time and the life cycles of nature. Write a few paragraphs about how autumn makes you feel or what it makes you consider."<br />
<a href="http://www.suite101.com/content/autumn-writing-prompts-a138477">Autumn writing prompts</a><br />
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18) It was Autumn and the family of the Little Pagan was canning and conserving the harvest. Little Pagan didn't want to do it. She hated the smell of vinegar and all the work with cutting and cleaning the vegetables, fruits and berries. She didn't even like gathering the harvest, there was too much of it, and she wanted to play and read and have fun, and not go out to fields or forests to pick and pluck and pinch and pull... So next time the family went to the forest to pick berries, she ran away...<br />
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19) You know the Christmas Carol... now, imagine a world where the Harvest feast is the time of generousity, sharing, coming together and having fun. It used to be. Think of a combined Halloween and Thanksgiving and Rosh Hashanah, if you find it difficult to think of such a day in Autumn. Now - rewrite the Christmas Carol, for Pagans and Autumn; "Songs of Harvest". <br />
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20) Three convicts escape from prison just before the Harvest Day, and arrive at a village. They go to a store, the only store that gives supplies on credit. While there, they notice that the roof is leaking, and offer to fix it. They do not actually intend to fix it, but decide to remain there, until nightfall, when they will steal clothes and supplies, and escape on the ship waiting in the harbour. As they stay in the store, they find that the family is in all kinds of trouble due to their kindness and generosity. They start helping the family, even conning people and falsifying records to make the store prosperous. In the end the three felons fix a wonderful Harvest feast for the family: mostly made of stolen items...<br />
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What kind of trouble does the family have? How do the villains manage to solve their problems?Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-85598082523986093702011-07-15T13:24:00.000-07:002011-07-15T13:24:48.927-07:00Bonsai story generator<a href="http://www.critters.org/bonsai/">http://www.critters.org/bonsai/</a><br />
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Take 3-4 of your <a href="http://750words.com/">750 words </a>and see what you get.Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-34597289882053207412011-07-12T12:47:00.000-07:002011-07-15T12:47:57.369-07:00PotlatchA potlatch is a gift-giving festival and primary economic system practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. <br />
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At potlatch gatherings, a family or hereditary leader hosts guests in their family's house and holds a feast for their guests. The main purpose of the potlatch is the re-distribution and reciprocity of wealth.<br />
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Different events take place during a potlatch, like singing and dancing, sometimes with masks or regalia, or the barter of wealth through material gifts. For some cultures, such as Kwakwaka'wakw, elaborate and theatrical dances are performed reflecting the hosts' genealogy and cultural wealth. Many of these dances are also sacred ceremonies of secret societies like the hamatsa, or display of family origin from supernatural creatures such as the dzunukwa. Typically the potlatching is practiced more in the winter seasons as historically the warmer months were for procuring wealth for the family, clan, or village, then coming home and sharing that with neighbors and friends.<br />
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Celebration of births, rites of passages, weddings, funerals, namings, and honoring of the deceased are some of the many forms the potlatch occurs under. Although protocol differs among the Indigenous nations, the potlatch will usually involve a feast, with music, dance, theatricality and spiritual ceremonies.Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-57086536455826068972011-07-11T12:42:00.000-07:002011-07-15T12:42:27.703-07:00Symbol of God<blockquote><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 22px;">"The entire universe is but one vast symbol of God." <br />
— Thomas Carlysle</span></span></blockquote>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-53434890774444602072011-07-10T12:40:00.000-07:002011-07-15T12:41:28.981-07:00They fight crime...There used to be a writing prompt generator, "<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060827201659/http://home.epix.net/%7Emhryvnak/theyfightcrime.html">They fight crime...</a>"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He's a lonely Amish hairdresser on the run. She's a mentally unstable tomboy stripper living homeless in New York's sewers. They fight crime! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He's an unconventional overambitious cat burglar possessed of the uncanny powers of an insect. She's a cosmopolitan cat-loving stripper from a secret island of warrior women. They fight crime! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What else could they be doing? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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Invent a drug with an amazing effect... does it have side effects? Would it really take you to another level? Time travel drug? Love potion?<br />
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-- <a href="http://www.ruthgendler.com/books_qualities.asp">J. Ruth Gendler </a>Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-77472989283063867892011-07-06T02:05:00.000-07:002011-07-06T02:05:00.143-07:00LammastideIn about a month some Pagans will be celebrating the First Day of Autumn, Lughnasadh, which is also the first harvest feast. Think what the world might look if Lammas was as beloved and celebrated as Yule...<br />
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There are several descriptions of Christmas in <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/514/514-h/514-h.htm">Little Women</a>. It starts with thoughts around Christmas, and the author ties it with another Christmas the next year in chapter 22 of First book.<br />
Write something similar about a Pagan family at Lammastide.Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4532712710742346824.post-46418642926950330582011-07-05T01:56:00.000-07:002011-07-05T01:56:00.167-07:00Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill<a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article7046633.ece" target="_external">Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill at Sunday Times</a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/7398266/Horace-Walpole-and-Strawberry-Hill-at-the-Victoria-and-Albert-Museum-review.html">Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill - review of an exhibition at V&A </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/01/the-dandy-of-strawberry-hill/">The Dandy of Strawberry Hill</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://librivox.org/the-castle-of-otranto-by-horace-walpole/">Librivox: The Castle Of Otranto </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgGLOW9NNmJv32WLrT4vvfn7MII_i0Ygu-AWnCd5L0EqAxRS9-dTsoSYScFJnCZI6RWniKFLbVkRlCn9YGmw_z6b1b5T80_ix8DmcfnZCudHUGczXD0H5IZ-Z4LfmISayQI20cruEl74U/s1600/167_arts_fallowell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgGLOW9NNmJv32WLrT4vvfn7MII_i0Ygu-AWnCd5L0EqAxRS9-dTsoSYScFJnCZI6RWniKFLbVkRlCn9YGmw_z6b1b5T80_ix8DmcfnZCudHUGczXD0H5IZ-Z4LfmISayQI20cruEl74U/s320/167_arts_fallowell.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>"Not only did he use his inherited wealth to amass thousands of objects, from Joshua Reynolds's portraits to an Aztec mirror used by the Elizabethan magician Dr Dee, he created a fantasy world in which to display them. In doing so he built the wildest, most extraordinary house in 18th-century Britain: Strawberry Hill. "</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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What do you think should happen so that people would accept these phenomenons as real?<br />
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Write a story about when "it" happens.Ketutarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17817006362006690145noreply@blogger.com0