Make Something: Pens
Making something with pens is easy for a writer. But today I felt more like playing than writing. Plus, I have a brand new package of fine-tip Sharpies. What better […]
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Make Something: Ten-Word Love Story
At last! Three weeks into the year of making things, I encountered a storytelling assignment. “Write a ten-word love story,” prompts Noah Scalin in 365: A Daily Creativity Journal. I […]
Make Something: Before Breakfast
Oh, Noah Scalin, you are hitting all my sensitivities so early in this year of making 365 somethings. For this 9th day, the creative journal suggests making something with your […]
Make Something: Old Book
Today’s marching orders were to “transform an old book into something new by cutting, folding, gluing, and so on.” I know about altered books. I’ve seen beautiful examples, and I’ve […]
Reflections on a year of daily practice
My year of poetry is complete. What next? I’m inviting family, friends, and “strangers” (is there any such thing, really?) into Just 99 Days of experimenting with daily practice. Will […]
Nice
Day 351 prompt: The Letter N (a haiku) nimble needle nods noodling Norma’s nifty novel narratives
Abstract
Day 348 prompt: Abstract in the visual arts painters have latitude to merely suggest an idea no need for realism or true perspective or accurate depiction writers strive for more precision telling […]
Unleashed
Day 338 prompt: Letters in Nature (an acrostic poem) Nature’s Artful Textures Unleash Rejoicing Everywhere
Primary Painters
Day 319 prompt: Primary Colors primary colors may be few only red and yellow and blue even five-year-olds will hush given just these paints and brush mixing up these basic three […]
Happy Heart
Day 250 prompt: The Letter H (a haiku) happily honing her heart’s habitual hum: humorous haikus
The Arts
Day 244 prompt: The Arts Dancer Muscle and rhythm And space to let them move Carver Chisel and knife And block to cut away Painter Brush and color And surface to […]
Contemporary
Day 231 prompt: Contemporary (a haiku) bold and minimal once snubbed as cold and sterile now sublime order
Grapefruit Sky
Day 230 prompt: Pastel suburban evening running errands driving toward the sunset small, clear voice from the back seat observes the sky brushed in broad strokes of pastel at the stoplight […]
Garden | Paul’s Vision
Paul, our wood carving brother, brought thought and ideas to our discussion of the prompt “garden.” “When I think about garden and my carving, I go right to a Grinling […]
Garden | Norma’s Words
Garden Gift My parents gave me a garden. The plot by the door of daily passage Became my floral cutting bed. My parents bought me books, Containers, Floral frogs and […]
Beth Nyland 