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“For people who already feel separate from the crowd, social rejection can be a form of validation,” says Johns Hopkins Carey Business School assistant professor Sharon Kim, the study’s lead author. “Rejection confirms for independent people what they already feel about themselves, that they’re not like others. For such people, that distinction is a positive one leading them to greater creativity.”
Social rejection has the opposite effect on people who value belonging to a group: It inhibits their cognitive ability. -Science Daily
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write about a character who values being part of a group and their experience with rejection. Write the same story but this time with a character who already feels separate from the crowd.
Journaling Prompt: How do you react when you are rejected?
Art Prompt: Social Rejection and Creativity
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write about your experiences with rejection and give your audience information on how to constructively handle rejection.
Photo Credit: Janet 59 on Flickr
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Business history is dotted with stories of opportunities lost because people within companies were unsuccessful in pitching their ideas. And those neglected opportunities were consequential. Competitors seized market share that could have been kept and increased if the good idea had been adopted. Take the minivan. Who came up with that idea — Chrysler? No. Ford engineers came up with that idea — they called it the van-wagon — but they couldn’t convince management that customers would buy it. In fact, one executive who endorsed it, Hal Sperlich, was fired and went on to lead the effort at Chrysler, which then dominated the minivan world for many years. Ford lost out. … -John A. Daly, Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story about an inventor whose brilliant invention is rejected.
Journaling Prompt: What do you wish you had invented and why?
Art Prompt: Minivan
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Entertain your audience with a story about something that happened in a minivan.
Photo Credit: ASurroca on Flickr
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Parents who feel guilty about letting their young children watch too many fantasy movies on TV can relax.
Researchers from Lancaster University have discovered that youngsters who watch films like Harry Potter improve their imagination and creativity. -Science Daily
Fiction Writing Prompt: Write a story or poem about a child who grows up watching fantasy movies.
Journaling Prompt: Write about the kind of movies you enjoyed watching as a kid. How did they inspire you?
Art Prompt: Children and Fantasy
Non-Fiction / Speechwriting Prompt: Write about a movie that inspired you as a child and how it shaped your life.
Photo Credit: Lars Plougmann on Flickr
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for July 8, 2012. 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
Joanna Powell Colbert presents Creativity as a Sacred Practice posted at Gaian Soul.
Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents Speed Bump posted at View from the Winepress.
Sandi presents To Query or not to Query posted at Left Brain Turn Right.
JeanNicole Rivers presents The Day is Dark and I Am Cold posted at JeanNicole Rivers.
Writing Quote of the Week
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. -Maya Angelou
Writing Tips and Prompts
Chrys Fey presents How to Write Romance posted at Write with Fey.
N.K. Jemisin presents Why Does Magic Need So Many Rules posted at io9.com.
Brian Feinblum presents 16 Tips on how to Survive and Thrive as a Writer posted at Live Write Thrive.
Jonathan Gunson presents J.R.R. Tolkien’s Top Ten Tips for Writers posted at Bestseller Labs.
Suw Charman-Anderson presents Don’t Publish That Book! posted at Forbes.
Mark Nichol presents Good Advice About Bad Writing posted at Daily Writing Tips.
Matthew Salesses presents A Month of Revision posted at Necessary Fiction.
Food
Liz Shaw presents In Search of an Edible Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free, Yeast-Free Pizza Crust posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Podcasts
Writing Excuses presents The Problem of Originality posted at Writing Excuses.
Creative People Paying it Forward
Lara Whitmore presents 12 Gifts that Don’t Cost Anything posted at Live Creatively.
The Business of Creativity
Iyabo Oyawale presents Qualities of Successful Bloggers posted at Ask Iyabo Oyawale.com.
That’s all for this week. Be sure to submit your article for next week’s Carnival of Creativity by Friday at midnight!
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for June 24, 2012. 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.
Responses to Writing Reader Prompts
Cara Lopez Lee presents The End of Allergy Season posted at Girls Trek Too. Response to Prompt #361 Death of a Relationship.
Maureen Hovermale presents The Way the Marble Bounces posted at zencherry. Response to Prompt 360 Time Travel.
The Creative Mindset
Darren LaCroix presents The Pilot’s Mentor: Heights Others May Never Reach posted at Darren LaCroix.
Kenneth Lange presents Getting Things Done: Four Techniques to Boost Your Productivity posted at Kenneth Lange.
Jon Rhodes presents How to Improve Your Creativity posted at Affiliate Tips.
Mike King presents Locking in the Drive of Persistance posted at Learn This.
Resources/Tools
Free to download from Jeff Goins, The Misfit Manifesto.
Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents Shadow Box posted at View from the Wine Press.
Liz Shaw presents Princess Alessa and the Frog War posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Wilma Rich presents Summer Saints posted at Writing the Rich Life.
Sidhusaaheb presents A Coup That Was Not? posted at I, Me, Myself.
Alexis Heugly presents Lost Socks for Lost Soles posted at Alexis Scribbles.
Writing Quote of the Week
“People are hungry for stories. It’s part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another.” — Studs Terkel
Writing Tips and Prompts
K.M. Weiland presents How to Spot and Fix Non-Reactive and Over-Reactive Characters posted at WordPlay.
C.S. Lakin presents Five Months on the First Scene posted at Live Write Thrive.
Mark Nichol presents 15 Stock Characters and How to Restock Them posted at Daily Writing Tips.
Lisa Hall Wilson presents What’s Your Logline? posted at The Candid Writer.
Lauren Davis presents Concept Art Writing Prompt: Human Emotions Bottled as Drugs posted at io9.com.
Chrys Fey presents Writing Good Prose posted at Writing with Fey.
Podcasts
Writing Excuses presents Writing Capers posted at Writing Excuses.
Visual Arts
Lara Whitmore presents Creating a Collage posted at Live Creatively.
Alex presents Samurai Tattoos posted at Tattoos to See.
Creative People Paying it Forward
Harper Perenniel presents Forty Stories, a free collection of short stories.
Creative Food
Trish presents Babushka Cupcakes posted at Trish Gets Crafty.
Spam of the Week
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That’s all for this week. Be sure to submit your article for next week’s Carnival of Creativity by Friday at midnight!
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Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, it’s natural, healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing Prompt: Create a story, scene, or poem about a culture that has lost its connection to myth.
Journaling Prompt: Write about a lesson you’ve learned from a myth or cultural story.
Art Prompt: Mythology
Photo Credit: AlicePopkorn on Flickr
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for April 22, 2012. 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
iman presents How to stay creative in a non-creative environment posted at LabellaIman, saying, “A few tips on staying creative in a non creative environment”
Resources/Tools
Chrys Fey presents Formatting Your Manuscript posted at Write with Fey.
Sharing Our Work
Tracy Fulks presents working out : eating bacon posted at tracyfulks, saying, “I know I’m not the only one…”
Eula McLeod presents That’s Entertainment posted at View from the Winepress. Guaranteed to make you laugh!
Sherril presentes Water Run posted at Today’s Visions.
Marcy presents 47 Years of Great Rock: You Say It’s Your Birthday at Too Timid, Too Squeamish. Don’t miss this one – put on your headphones and enjoy!
Liz Shaw presents Peter Watts, Feedbooks, and FictFact posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Quote of the Week
Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them…if it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. -Elmore Leonard
Writing Tips and Prompts
C.S. Lakin presents The Defining of a Scene posted at Live, Write, Thrive.
Creativity Boosts
Melanie Grant presents How to Journal: Create a Personal Profile posted at Mel’s Mouthful on Mothering, saying, “Creatively designing your journal creates a wonderful environment for you to express yourself”
Podcasts
The Writing Excuses podcast is continued from last week as the guys continue giving Mary feedback on her novel outline.
Visual Arts
Sarah presents Etsy Spring Amsterdam posted at Natsumi.
Daniela Baker presents 7 Landscape Film Photography Tips posted at Guide to Film Photography, saying, “For those who want to build a career in landscape photography, here are 7 tips that will give you stunning landscape photographs every time.”
The Business of Creativity
Chase Dumont presents How to Make an eBook (That Makes You Buckets of Money) posted at Chase Dumont, Rainmaker.
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Creative people are more likely to cheat than less creative people, possibly because this talent increases their ability to rationalize their actions, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
“Greater creativity helps individuals solve difficult tasks across many domains, but creative sparks may lead individuals to take unethical routes when searching for solutions to problems and tasks,” said lead researcher Francesca Gino, PhD, of Harvard University. -Science Daily
Writing Prompt: Write a scene about someone who cheats. What is the inner monologue that the person goes through to rationalize the cheating?
Journaling Prompt: Write about a time you cheated. How did you rationalize it to yourself?
Art Prompt: Cheat
Photo Credit: Casey Serin on Flickr
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for February 26, 2012. 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
Patti Onderko presents Get Unstuck at Success. 17 ways to bring more creativity into your life and work.
Rodney Maley presents Battling Self-Doubt posted at Life-fficient. Tips on dealing with your inner critic.
Dr. Mike presents Get Creative posted at UpbeatBrain.com, saying, “Creativity covers a lot of ground, and we can all find a spot to explore it and enjoy it.”
Chrys Fey presents Yes, You Can Write A Novel! posted at Write With Fey, saying, “Writing a novel has never been impossible in the past, nor will it ever be in the future. Anyone can do it, even you!”
Pamela Jorrick presents A Letter A Day posted at Blah, Blah, Blog, saying, “Why do I participate in these crazy challenges that I find on the internet? I don’t really know. I actually don’t need any more challenge in life, but this sounded like a fun idea, so I wanted to give it a try.”
Resources/Tools
Sheila Scarborough presents How to know when your content is pinned on Pinterest posted at Sheila’s Guide To The Good Stuff, saying, “The visual bulletin board service Pinterest is getting a lot of attention lately, and it’s certainly fun, but how do you know if your own content has been pinned on someone else’s board? This post gives a quick how-to explanation.”
Sharing Our Work
Derrick Roberts presents Mid-week Ramblings: ‘Front-porch Wisdom’ posted at Writing Wrong(Handed).
Kate Croston presents 20 Biggest Soccer Tragedies and the Internet Response posted at Internet Service, saying, “The history of soccer is dotted with some of the worst tragedies ever recorded in sports. Whether by natural means, or by the hands of men, there have been numerous disastrous events throughout soccer’s past.”
Lindsay Willison presents 10 Ways to Get Even with Automated Answering Services posted at Landline Phone Service, saying, “The chances of reaching a live person when placing a call these days get slimmer all the time. Every call turns into a form of techno-gymnastics, hopping through a maze of push-button options until you finally reach a human being, if ever.”
Coleen Torres presents 10 SOPA Boycotts That Were Impressive posted at phonetvinternet.com, saying, “The hotly contested Stop Online Piracy Act was one of the most controversial issues of late 2011 and early 2012. Lawmakers, entertainers and consumers alike spoke out vociferously against the potentially-dangerous legislation, which was eventually shelved.”
NSFW: Gracie J presents Body Counts posted at How Sweet It Is To Be Gracie, saying, “For readers with an open mind and open discussions”
Writing Tips and Prompts
C.S. Lakin presents First Paragraph, First Thoughts at Live, Write, Thrive.
Dan Wells presents How to Build Your Story (now on video) at Fearful Symmetry.
Rebecca Joines Schinsky presents 7 Surprise Twists I’d Rather Live Without [or The Airing of Grievances, Literary Style] at BookRiot.
Catherine Ryan Howard presents How (Not?) to Get Your Book Reviewed at Catherine, Caffeinated.
Liz Shaw presents The Test of Time at LizAndraShaw, asking “Will your writing stand the test of time?”
Syaiful presents The Art of Finding Ideas For Poem posted at Poetry Writing Tips.
Podcasts
Writing Excuses presents The City as a Character at WritingExcuses. Mary and Dan discuss using a city as a character with Sarah Pinborough, for whom London is an important setting and one of her favorite places.
Visual Arts
Greg Phelps presents Give a photographer a promotion… posted at Lucrative Lumens, saying, “The specific examples of marketing techniques in this article apply to pro portrait photographers but the concept discussed could easily benefit other types of photographers or even people in other lines of business who want to raise their profile in the community.”
Erica K. presents 5 Avenues for Logo Design Inspiration posted at ground up graphics
The Business of Creativity
Hannah Howard presents 10 Reasons Most Social Bookmarking Sites Suck posted at Longhorn Leads, LLC, saying, “The trouble with most social bookmarking sites is that they don’t have the proper balance that would make them as useful as they could be. Either there are too many sites that rank highly for no apparent reason, or there are too few gems to pluck from the sea of rubbish to make the effort worthwhile.”
Valaney Martin presents How to get your game noticed and get paid from it posted at Ubiquitense, saying, “Here are some guidelines for the average indie game developer to follow so that there’s a better chance of their game being noticed and making a profit from it.”
Writing Quote of the Week
Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. -Thomas Berger
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