There’s a darkness lurking deep in the souls of us all. Our parents instill in us a modicum of civilized behavior and that usually keeps our baser instincts at bay. But sometimes that blackness seeps to the surface and a monster walks quietly among us. Because we are not attuned to evil, we don’t see it rise up until it strikes us down without warning. -H. Terrell Griffin, Blood Island: A Matt Royal Mystery

Prompt #670 Evil Walks Among Us was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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As any urban dweller can tell you, the one thing that’s constant in city life is change. Buildings rise up and are torn down; parks bloom out of old train tracks; swimming pools become ice rinks that become arcades and then turn into Whole Foods. For this reason, urban historian Spiro Kostof calls the city a “process.” Cities change with the peoples that live in them, but they are also a repository of history. Even as we relentlessly build new structures, we prefer to remain in these old places where we can live in what’s left of cities and cultures that are hundreds or even thousands of years gone. -Annalee Newitz

Prompt #669 The City as a Process was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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Marty Silvio, a balding, overweight, cocky, cigar-chewing egoist who never really got a good look at himself in a mirror, enjoyed manipulating everything, including the truth. He called it “creative responsiveness.” – Laura Rizio, Blood Money

Prompt #668 Marty the Egoist was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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We know that people make up false memories if prompted. But since our brain never stops being a jerk, we can also convert real memories into things we believe we imagined…

Cryptomnesia – the misattribution of memories – is a fairly easy trap to fall into. According to the The British Journal of Psychiatry, we experience partial cryptomnesia all the time. We remember things, but don’t remember where we learned them. So we may recommend a book to the person who recommended it to us, or tell a new piece of gossip to the person who first told us about it. We remember learning something, but not where we learned it. -Esther Inglis-Arkell

Prompt #667 Cryptomnesia was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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Welcome to the Carnival of Creativity for May 19, 2013. All links will open in a new tab or window, so feel free to click through and leave some love in the comments. Once you close that window, you’ll be right back here for more linky goodness.

The Creative Mindset

Kevin Ashton presents Creative People Say No posted at Thoughts on Creativity.

Jennifer presents Do We Really Have to Choose? posted at Officially Jennifer.

Resources/Tools

Structured Journal makes it easy for you to keep a daily journal online. Simple to customize to meet your needs.

Sharing Our Work

Emi Bauer presents Bananas posted at Confessions of an Incompetent Blogger.

Liz Shaw presents Gratitude at Work posted at Create a Brilliant Life.

Randy Boude presents Angel Among Us posted at Randy Boude.

Writing Quote of the Week

Writing Tips and Prompts

Chrys Fey presents More on Character Development posted at Write with Fey.

K.M. Weiland presents A Powerful Storytelling Tool: Getting Readers to Fill In Your Character’s Blanks posted at Helping Writers Become Authors.

Erin presents Show Don’t Tell posted at Daily Writing Tips.

Monique Jacobs presents That Next Project posted at Amazing Stories.

Juliette Wade presents How Linguistics Can Help You Part 5: Pragmatics posted at Science in my Fiction.

Gabriela Pereira presents Read Like an Agent posted at DIY MFA.

Creativity Boosts

Tanner Christensen presents The best way to keep your ideas? posted at Creative Something.

Podcasts

This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Writing and Convention Culture.

Visual Arts

Liron presents How to Draw a Ferrari Enzo posted at Drawing Lessons.

Jennifer Saksa presents Get Ready to Compete – Video Competition Advice posted at Do More With Software.

Food

Audrey presents Audrey’s Morning Latte posted at Fairy at Heart.

Spam of the Week

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Credits

Thanks to Le.Sanchez for the background for today’s writing quote.

That’s all for this week. Be sure to submit your article for next week’s Carnival of Creativity by Friday at midnight!

Carnival of Creativity 5/19/2013 was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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Create whatever this visual prompt inspires in you!

Photo by Bert Heymans on Flickr.

Prompt #666 Visual Prompt of the Week – Dewdrops was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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It was the baby, of all things, that woke her up. Not her husband. Not the police. Just the baby and his crying. -Todd Ritter, Bad Moon

Prompt #665 First Line of the Week – Todd Ritter was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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mithridatism noun: The developing of immunity to a poison by taking gradually increasing doses of it.

Prompt #664 Word of the Week – Mithridatism was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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“What a Fuller Man did was virtuosic. ‘The Fuller art of open­ing doors was regarded by connoisseurs of cold-turkey peddling in somewhat the same way that balletomanes esteem a performance of the Bolshoi — as pure poetry,’ American Heritage wrote. ‘In the hands of a deft Fuller dealer, brushes became not homely com­modities but specialized tools obtainable nowhere else.’ Yet he was also virtuous, his constant presence in neighborhoods turning him neighborly. ‘Fuller Brush Men pulled teeth, massaged head­aches, delivered babies, gave emetics for poison, prevented suicides, discovered murders, helped arrange funerals, and drove patients to hospitals.’ ” -Daniel H. Pink, To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Prompt #663 The Fuller Brush Man was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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Sin Eaters performed a ceremony wherein they took on the sins that the deceased performed — sins that went unforgiven or without confession prior to death. People typically hired a Sin Eater in situations where the deceased died unexpectedly.

By consuming bread and a drink (usually wine or beer) placed on, or ritually waved over, the dead body, onlookers believed the dead person’s sins were digested by the eater after he or she consumed this beggar’s feast. The act appears to be confined to 18th and 19th Century Europe, with no accounts of necro-cannibalism noted.

In time, the practice expanded in popularity, so that Sin Eaters also attended to people who had just died of natural causes — because people believed the ritual could help prevent the dead from wandering the countryside after death. -Keith Veronese -Keith Veronese

Prompt #662 Sin Eaters was written by Liz Andra Shaw and was originally published at The Writing Reader.

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