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Send to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for May 12, 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
Tanner Christensen presents Can You Believe Yourself Into Being More Creative? posted at Creative Something.
Cynthia Morris presents Artists and writers: drop the confusion and define your own labels posted at Original Impulse.
Resources/Tools
Rainy Cafe is a free online ambient noise generator to help you focus on your creative process.
Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents The One and Only You posted at View from the Winepress.
Emi Bauer presents ‘Gullible’ is Not in the Dictionary posted at Confessions of an Incompetent Blogger.
Liz Shaw presents Flash Fiction: Up On the Roof posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Rob Graumans presents We’ve Got You God! posted at The Young Socrates
LaTonia Williams presents Being Jonah posted at Becoming a Public Offender.
Writing Quote of the Week
Writing Tips and Prompts
Chrys Fey presents Writing About: Torture posted at Write with Fey.
Carol Smallwood presents ADVICE FOR WRITERS: Q&A with Story Circle Network’s Mary Jo Doig posted at The Mindful Word
David Leonhardt presents You might be a writer posted at A Ghost Writers Blog
Darren Lacroix presents 5 Hollywood Secrets for Your Stories posted at Stage Time.
Kathy Crowley presents Wrinkles in Time posted at Beyond the Margins.
Nina Munteanu presents The Careful Writer: Some Notes on Composition posted at Amazing Stories.
Marcia Walters and Betty Brock presents 8 Simple Tips for Improving Your Writing posted at Novel Publicity.
Brian Klems presents 7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel posted at Writer’s Digest.
Mark Nichol presents 20 Names of Body Parts and Elements and Their Figurative Meanings posted at Daily Writing Tips.
Lauren Davis presents Concept Art Writing Prompt: Superhero Grandma posted at io9.
Amanda Barrett presents Building Bigger Bugs posted at Science in my Fiction.
A. Wrighton presents 15 Tips for Handling Writing Criticism posted at A. Wrighton.
Brynna Curry presents Ten Successful Tips For Independent Authors – Richard Stevenson posted at You Gotta Read Reviews.
Creativity Boosts
Graham Stoney presents How To Overcome Procrastination posted at Graham Stoney’s Personal Development Adventure
Diane Mottl, MSW presents Loosening the hold of fear and doubt… posted at Being Truly Present
Podcasts
Last week’s podcast at Writing Excuses was a Microcasting episode where they answer listener questions. This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Blocking.
Visual Arts
Suzanne Lucas presents What the Hell is that? When Art Looks Like Anything But posted at Times Squared.
Andrew Knutson presents What’s art got to do with it? Thinking about Art, Art History, and the Original posted at Art in Limbo
Duy presents The Process posted at Infornigraphic Amnesiac
Journal Writing
Cynthia Brouse presents How journal writing can make you healthier posted at Best Health.
The Business of Creativity
Cynthia D’Alba presents Blog Tours: The Good – The Bad – The Ugly posted at Writers in the Storm.
Greg presents Can You Make Money In Blog Marketing posted at Help My Small Business
Crafting
Tina Katic presents Wheelbarrow Coffee Table posted at K International Woodworking
Food
Mr.CBB presents Mr.CBB’s Cheesy Crock-Pot Lasagna posted at Canadian Budget Binder
Fashion
Daniellesva presents 1970′s Wallpaper Is All the Rage! posted at Danielle’s Virtual Assistance
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Credits
Thanks to twbuckner 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!
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for March 31, 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.
Announcements
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Sharing Our Work
Maureen Hovermale presents The Duck It List posted at ZenCherry.
Eula McLeod presents To Tell The Truth posted at View from the Winepress.
Emi Bauer presents So.Easy posted at Confessions of an Incompetent Blogger.
Jim Booth presents Why We Write, or Don’t: A Few Words About Culture and Change posted at Scholars and Rogues
Liz Shaw presents Distubance in the Space Time Continuum posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Quote of the Week
Writing Tips and Prompts
Chrys Fey presents Writing a Series posted at Write with Fey.
Faith Van Horn presents Writing Outside by Faith Van Horne posted at Writer’s Fun Zone.
Lyn Newman presents How to use synchronicity in creative planning posted at Curiosity Creates.
Stavros Halvatzis presents How to Make Your Stories Compelling posted at Stavros Halvatzis.
Kristen Lamb presents The Clock is Ticking—5 Tips for Tighter, Cleaner Writing posted at Kristen Lamb.
John Yeoman presents Give Stories Added Depth With a ‘Ghost Plot’ posted at Blood Red Pencil.
Marcy Kennedy presents Four Techniques to Show Rather than Tell posted at Marcy Kennedy.
Misha Crews presents How To Write Sex Scenes When You’re a Prude posted at Romance University.
Gabriela Pereira presents 7 Reasons to Use Writing Prompts posted at Mystery Writing is Murder.
Geoffrey James presents How to Begin a Short Story posted at Amazing Stories.
Donna Cooner presents The Top 10 Worst Types of Critique Partners posted at Writer’s Digest.
Emily L. Moir-Genther presents 5 Ways to Turn Readers Off: A Writer’s Guide on what NOT to Do posted at Novel Publicity.
Lauren Davis presents Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Man and His Moon posted at io9.
Creativity Boosts
Stephanie Orges presents March Wallpaper: Life is Terminal posted at Be Kind Rewrite.
Podcasts
This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Project in Depth: Deus ex Nauseum.
Visual Arts
Meghana presents Around The World: Rajasthani Mojadi Shoes posted at Around The World
Journal Writing
Melissa Donovan presents Sleep and Dream Your Journal Writing Ideas posted at Writing Forward.
Stephanella Walsh presents How to Journal posted at The Creative Identity.
The Business of Creativity
Julie McElroy presents Keeping Up with Your Blog for the Long Haul posted at Inspired to Write.
Mark McGuinness presents How to Deal with Crushing Feedback on Your Creative Work posted at 99u.
Sonia Simone presents Is it Time for Content Marketers to Abandon Facebook? posted at CopyBlogger.
Robert Lee Brewer presents 6 Blogging Tips That Will Pay Off Immediately (Okay, maybe 7 tips) posted at Writer’s Market.
Jon Rhodes presents Let People Know What You Really Think posted at Affiliate Help!
JeanNicole Rivers presents Great, Popular or Both? posted at JeanNicole Rivers
Crafts
Maureen Rostad presents Repurposing Fashion Clothing: Upcycling an Empire Waist Top from a Dress posted at Upcycled Fashionista
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Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for January 6, 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.
Announcements
I’d like to invite you to my brand new site, Create A Brilliant Life. Check the articles section for a new, but growing collection of inspiration.
Responses to Writing Reader Prompts
Cara Lopez Lee responded to Prompt 531 The Streisand Effect.
The Creative Mindset
Jenny presents New Year, New You, New New New posted at Do The Earth
Ingrid Wickelgren presents How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes: The Value of Creativity and Imagination [Excerpt] posted at Streams of Consciousness.
Resources/Tools
Jeff Goins presents Free Intentional Blogging Course posted at Jeff Goins Writer.
Sharing Our Work
Marcy presents A Christmas Quest: Solve the Riddles to Find Your Present posted at (Don’t Be) Too Timid and Squeamish.
Eula McLeod presents Language of the Heart posted at View from the Wine Press.
JeanNicole Rivers presents Forget New Year’s Resolutions, Have a New Year’s Revelation. (Six-word story) posted at JeanNicole Rivers.
Liz Shaw presents Change Your Life with 3 x 5 Cards posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Quote of the Week
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. -John Updike
Writing Tips and Prompts
Chrys Fey presents The Very Last Sentence posted at Write with Fey.
Julie Rodriguez presents Make Writing Resolutions You Can Actually Keep in 2013 posted at The Renegade Word.
Matthew Hall presents How to Outline with yWriter: Step # 1, Write a Tag Line posted at M.L. Hall.
Gabriela Pereira presents The Villain’s Journey – Recap from ThrillerFest posted at DIY MFA.
Karen S. Wiesner presents Your Novel Blueprint posted at Writer’s Digest.
Melissa Donovan presents Writing Resources for Naming Your Characters posted at Writing Forward.
Stephanie presents 6 steps to judging your own writing posted at Be Kind Rewrite.
Lauren Davis presents Concept Art Writing Prompt: The Aerial Gas Station and Churro Stand posted at io9.
Creativity Boosts
Tony presents How to Avoid Procrastination (or the Art of Unprocrastination) posted at You Only Do This Once.
Podcasts
This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Four Ways the Industry is Changing.
Visual Arts
Nicole Elena Robertson presents Nicole Elena Robertson: Harvest Workroom posted at Nicole Elena Robertson
Crafts
Chrys presents How to Make a Candle Out of a Tangerine, Clementine or Satsuma posted at Salubrious Exclamation.
The Business of Creativity
Alice Seba presents 19 Reasons to Stop Messing Around and Start Getting Serious about Email posted at Concentrix.
Writer’s Relief presents Network Up! How To Meet Literary Agents and Editors on the Web posted at Writer’s Relief.
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 December 30, 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
Debra Mauldin responded with a haiku to The Writing Reader Prompt #517 Word of the Week – Imperious.
The Creative Mindset
Jim Woods presents How to Get Those Creative Juices Flowing posted at Jeff Goins Writer.
Resources/Tools
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Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents Ensenada Madonna posted at View from the Wine Press.
J.T. Ellison presents Victimizing Our Heroines posted at Criminal Element.
Writing Quote of the Week
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” -Herman Hesse
Writing Tips and Prompts
Adair Lara presents 7 Ways to Perfect Your Writing “Tone” posted at Writer’s Digest.
Edith presents Keeping A WRITER’S DIARY posted at In a Room of My Own.
Chrys Fey presents To Epilogue or Not to Epilogue posted at Write with Fey.
CJ Lakin presents The Inevitable Ending You Know Is Coming posted at Live Write Thrive.
Podcasts
This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Secret History.
Visual Arts
Julie Ann Shahin presents Art Journaling 102: Technique Feature – Mixing Patterned Papers posted at Tangie Baxter Studio.
Lauren Davis presents Surreal Illustrations for Fairy Tales that Don’t Exist Yet posted at io9. Perhaps you’ll write them…
Deborah Kanfer presents Queen st W, Toronto 2012 posted at Deborah Kanfer Fine Art Photography
Journal Writing
Dale Shanklin presents How to Journal Properly posted at Dale Shanklin’s Personal Development Blog
The Business of Creativity
Alice Seba presents What Does Persuasive Writing Mean Anyway? posted at DIY PLR.
Writer’s Relief presents When And How To Follow Up With (Or Nudge) A Literary Agent About Your Book Query posted at Writer’s Relief.
Jason Boog presents Mark Coker Predicts: ‘More money will be made in author services than in book sales.’ posted at GalleyCat.
Gabriela Pereira presents Branding Basics from ThrillerfFest posted at DIY MFA.
Geoff Hoff presents Writing for Kindle posted at Geoff Hoff Online.
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 July 15, 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
Cathy presents It’s a Secret posted at Cathy’s Voice, a response to Prompt #382 Best Friends.
Jennifer presents Word of the Week ~ Belvedere posted at Writing and My Missing Muse, a response to Prompt #385 Word of the Week Belvedere.
The Creative Mindset
Leonie Dawson presents Quit Perfectionism – Get Finished posted at Leonie Dawson.
Resources/Tools
Here’s something fun for science fiction writers. Space Engine, free space simulation software that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, starting from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets!
Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents Whatever posted at View from the Winepress.
Marta Mir presents How to Order a Coffee in Portugal posted at Misadventures with Andi.
Liz Shaw presents Book Review: After the Virus by Meghan Ciana Doidge posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Quote of the Week
Keep a diary. The biggest regret of my writing life is that I have never kept a journal or a diary. -Geoff Dyer
Writing Tips and Prompts
Lisa Hall Wilson presents 8 Tips for Self-Editing posted at The Candid Writer.
Gabriela presents Set the Mood for your Story with a Mood Collage posted at DIY MFA.
Maria Popova presents Italo Calvino’s 14 Definitions of a Classic posted at Brain Pickings.
Creativity Boosts
Jeremy Dean presents Boost Creativity: 7 Unusual Psychological Techniques posted at PsyBlog.
Podcasts
This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about The Villain Problem.
Visual Arts
Lauren Davis presents This Stunning Painting Imagines the Real Sky that Inspired The Starry Night posted at io9.
The Business of Creativity
Ben Galley presents Is the Stigma of Self-Publishing Finally Gone? posted at Live Write Thrive.
Carter Breazeale presents Engaging Your Audience Online posted at The PRess Release.
Journal Writing
Ian Duncan presents Journaling: What to Write and Why posted at Ian Duncan Books.
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 10, 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.
Announcements
Help a teen videographer go on a great adventure at KickStart.
The Creative Mindset
wizard presents Embrace your mortality, embrace life posted at wizard corpse.
Erika Andersen presents If You Want to Succeed in Business, Read More Novels posted at Forbes.com.
Jonah Lehrer presents The Virtues of Daydreaming posted at New Yorker.
Resources/Tools
Find a publisher for your article at the Poets & Writers database of literary magazines.
Sharing Our Work
Eula McLeod presents Paper Parade posted at View from the Winepress.
Writing Quote of the Week
Rather than posting a quote this week, I’m linking you to this interview with Ray Bradbury in the Paris Review. Read it, save it, read it again and again.
Writing Tips and Prompts
JeanNicole Rivers presents The Brave Author posted at JeanNicole Rivers.
Chrys Fey presents Unnecessary Writing posted at Write with Fey.
Bob Mayer presents Digital Publishing – A Marathon not a Sprint posted at Live Write Thrive.
Gabriela presents 5 Stages of Writers Block posted at DIY MFA.
Jeff Goins presents How to Fall Back in Love with Writing posted at Jeff Goins Writer.
Lisa presents The Pub War posted in the newsletter archives for Lisa Hall Wilson.
David A. Price presents Pixar Story Rules (One Version) posted at Pixar Touch Book.
Creativity Boosts
Lauren Davis presents Neil Gaiman’s Delightful Commencement Speech about Succeeding in the Arts posted at io9.com.
Podcasts
This week’s podcast at Writing Excuses is all about Time Travel.
Visual Arts
Natsumi presents A Painting Experiment posted at Natsumi.
Bill Roorback and Dave Gessner presents What Type of Annoying Writer Are You? posted at Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour.
The Business of Creativity
Josh Champagne presents 10 Creative Ways to Make Money posted at Josh Champagne.
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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!
Send to KindleSend to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for February 19, 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
Chrys Fey presents Catching A Spark posted at Write With Fey, saying, “An idea for a story and creativity can come from anywhere, you just have to catch that spark.”
Gabriela Pereira presents Why Writers Must be Readers First at DIY MFA.
Resources/Tools
John Lenaghan presents How And Why I Use Mind Maps posted at Recharge My Life. Includes reviews and links to mind mapping sites and software.
The Business of Creativity
Beth Haydn presents 56 Ways to Market your Business on Pinterest at CopyBlogger.
Responses to Prompts
Eula McLeod presents Sting Like a Bee posted at View from the Winepress. This is one seriously funny lady!
Sharing Our Work
Kate Croston presents 10 Ways Twitter Would Have Changed the Brady Bunch posted at Internet Service, saying, “Social networking is a recent phenomenon that has changed the way millions of people correspond. Tweets have replaced emails, phone calls, and of course the long-deceased hand-written letters of old.”
Liz Shaw presents Cold Quarry by Andy Straka, a book review, at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Tips and Prompts
Charlie Jane Anders presents 10 Worst Mistakes that Authors of Alternate History Make at i09.com.
Jan Fischer Wade presents Twitter Hashtags Writers Should Know at BookBlogs.
Lauren Davis presents Concept Art Writing Prompt: Saturday Night at the Edge of the World at i09.com.
Syaiful presents The 5 Poetry Writing Tips For Beginners posted at Poetry Writing Tips.
Podcasts
This week’s topic at Writing Excuses is Historical Fantasy. It’s a fascinating look at what it takes to write in this genre. I would suggest that anyone writing historical fiction listen to this one.
Visual Arts
Daniela Baker presents 6 Tips for Better Underwater Pictures posted at Dive and More (Xtremesports), saying, “Let me share with you some tips and suggestions on how to get great looking underwater photos.”
Umair presents Barbie Doll in the fine art world posted at slickzine.com, saying, “Barbie does it all”
Creative People Paying it Forward
96well presents Solve puzzles for science posted at Reportergene, saying, “Creatives! Solve puzzles for science!”
Writing Quote of the Week
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” ~Ray Bradbury
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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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