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Make Something: Loud

April 30, 2014by bethnyland 1 Comment

  That’s it. One last creation in a year of making things each and every day. I did it. Three-hundred-sixty-five straight days of thinking and doing and playing and sharing. […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Uniform

April 17, 2014by bethnyland Leave a comment

“Design a uniform for a job that doesn’t normally have one.” My third grader and I discussed this prompt today after school. Emma suggested that I create a writer’s uniform where […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Framed

December 30, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

“Make or buy a frame and use it to showcase something that already exists so people can see it in a new way.” Today’s make something prompt gave me reason […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Incongruous

September 22, 2013by bethnyland 3 Comments

Now this was a fun prompt for a writer and writing instructor: Make something incongruous. Of all the valuable lessons I, an experienced communicator, can teach a hopeful, impressionable writer […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Make Something: Utensil

July 21, 2013by bethnyland 1 Comment

Create a new kind of utensil. Functional or not, document it in use. The utensil I created is not new in any way. It’s a pencil, and pencils have been […]

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Being Creative, Make Something 365

Song Writer

April 9, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

(a haiku)   clack smack thwack ching gurch daughter’s typing concerto music to my ears  

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Na-Po-Wri-Mo, Poetry

My Book

April 8, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

I think I’ll write a book someday. I think I’ll write a book. I have ideas and things to say. I think I’ll write a book. I’m going to read […]

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Na-Po-Wri-Mo, Poetry

Crud Pressure

April 6, 2013by bethnyland Leave a comment

these words do not flow or tumble or rush they barely trickle from some constricted source oozing through cerebral arteries squeezed by crud pressure clots of obligation spasms of distraction […]

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Na-Po-Wri-Mo, Poetry

Abstract

December 13, 2012by bethnyland Leave a comment

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 […]

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