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Send to KindleWelcome to the Carnival of Creativity for May 13, 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.
Sharing Our Work
Chase Dumont presents Rain Story posted at Terrifying Tales.
Eula McLeod presents Voila! posted at View from the Winepress.
Emi Bauer presents Proud Mommy Moments posted at Confessions of an Incompetent Blogger.
Liz Andra Shaw presents In Which Our Heroine Competes posted at Liz Andra Shaw.
Writing Quote of the Week
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page. -Margaret Atwood
Writing Tips and Prompts
JeanNicole Rivers presents Three Steps That Will Help You Finally Write That Novel posted at JeanNicole Rivers.
C.S. Lakin presents Don’t Go Nowhere Fast posted at Live Write Thrive.
Kevin Hanrahan presents What to Do and Not to Do During the Query Process posted at Kevin Hanrahan.
Jody Hedlund presents Avoid Being Branded an Amateur: Use These 7 POV Basics posted at Jody Hedlund.
Podcasts
James Dashner joins Writing Excuses for a live Q&A session at Life, the Universe, and Everything at Utah Valley University.
Visual Arts
Laura Edgar presents PHOTO GALLERY: Fishy Faces at Monterey Bay Aquarium posted at NerdWallet | Travel.
Crafty Creativity
Krystel Lapalme presents Bath Mitts posted at Home Spooled.
Linda Miller presents Pinterest Party -Our 1st One Ever! posted at those crafty sisters.
Meagan presents DIY Colorblock Belt posted at Questionable Logic.
Benoit presents Designing a T-Shirt posted at CustomYourShirt.com Blog.
The Business of Creativity
Laura Dawson presents Conquer Headlines and Shine! posted at Design Quotes Digital Marketing Blog.
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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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“There are two ways you can make an error as a man,” says Perilloux. “Either you think, ‘Oh, wow, that woman’s really interested in me’ — and it turns out she’s not. There’s some cost to that,” such as embarrassment or a blow to your reputation. The other error: “She’s interested, and he totally misses out. He misses out on a mating opportunity. That’s a huge cost in terms of reproductive success.” The researchers theorize that the kind of guy who went for it, even at the risk of being rebuffed, scored more often — and passed on his overperceiving tendency to his genetic heirs. The casual sex seekers “face slightly different adaptive problems,” says Perilloux. “They are limited mainly by the number of consenting sex partners — so overestimation is even more important.” Only the actually attractive men probably had no need for misperception.
The research contains some messages for daters of both sexes, says Perilloux: Women should know the risks and “be as communicative and clear as possible.” Men: “Know that the more attracted you are, the more likely you are to be wrong about her interest.” Again, that may not be as bad as it sounds, she says — “if warning them will prevent heartache later on.” -Science Daily
Writing Prompt: Write a scene or story about speed dating from the point of view of a man.
Journaling Prompt: Write about a dating experience where you misread the intentions of your date.
Art Prompt: Speed Dating
Photo Credit: Ed Yourdon on Flickr
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Children learn early that they can manipulate adults with their tears. As they grow up, they’ll learn more sophisticated manipulation strategies, but they all hinge on one key ingredient: fake emotion.
I begged out of the funeral. I was 10 years old and sensed that I could manipulate adults to my advantage. I told no one that my tears were at best cosmetic and at worst an expression of hysterical relief. I told no one that I hated my mother at the time of her murder. -James Ellroy, “My Mother’s Killer”. Read the entire article at GQ.com
Writing Prompt: Write a scene in first person point of view where the character is using manipulation to achieve a goal.
Journaling Prompt: Write about a time when you have manipulated a situation or when you have been manipulated.
Art Prompt: Faking it
Photo Credit: david_shankbone on Flickr
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Some Kings just can’t catch a break. In this delightful children’s story, the young King has allowed a dragon to escape from a magical book with some dire consequences! Put yourself in his shoes for a moment.
Things were growing very serious. However popular the King might become during the week, the Dragon was sure to do something on Saturday to upset the people’s loyalty. -Edith Nesbit, The Book of Dragons(free for your Kindle or Kindle software)
Writing Prompt: Write about this from the King’s point of view. Write about it from the dragon’s point of view.
Journaling Prompt: Write about a habit you have that comes out just when you think everything is under control.
Art Prompt: Dragon
Photo Credit: Arab Fancy 
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Have you ever wondered what is going on in a baby’s brain? Thanks to advances in science, we are learning more about the secret life of babies.
Three- to seven-month-old infants showed more activation in a part of the brain when they heard emotionally neutral human sounds, such as coughing, sneezing, or yawning, than when they heard the familiar sounds of toys or water. That activity appeared in an area of the temporal lobe known in adults for its role in processing human vocalizations. The babies also showed greater response to sad sounds versus neutral ones in another part of the brain involved in emotion processing in adults. -Science Daily
Writing Prompt: Write a scene from a baby’s point of view.
Journaling Prompt: Write about your earliest memory.
Art Prompt: Baby
Photo Credit: Scott & Elaine van der Chijs on Flickr
Send to KindleSend to KindleHave you ever done something without thinking? Well, in this story about the Secret Service, the Turkish Prime Minister gets a big surprise when he gets out of his car without thinking.
The prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was not so understanding. His motorcade was arriving at the Sheraton Hotel while a “POTUS Freeze” was in place. The Secret Service agent in charge of Erdogan’s detail asked him to wait until Obama’s motorcade had departed, but the Turkish prime minister did not heed the advice. He opened the door to his car, and armed Turkish agents began exiting the other vehicles in the motorcade. “Don’t do that!” the American detail leader shouted. But Erdogan’s entourage nonetheless approached Obama’s departure tent. An agent in the Presidential Protective Detail, having no idea who these foreign guys with guns were, yelled into his handheld mike, “Crash it! Crash the tent!” Within moments, a dozen agents were out of their cars in full sprint, guns drawn, and the Turks were forcibly detained.
The incident was over within 20 seconds, but the Turkish delegation was mightily offended. It canceled several events in New York, while the Secret Service and the State Department apologized and tried to smooth hurt egos. Although agents had done exactly what they were supposed to do, the service initiated a full review, and procedures were altered to ensure that presidential motorcades didn’t intersect with waiting dignitaries in the future.
Full article available online at The Atlantic Monthly.
Writing Prompt: Write about a character who gets a big surprise. Remember, have fun! Your writing exercise doesn’t have to be about secret service agents with guns. It could be a girl at a singles bar who suddenly finds herself surrounded by men offering her martinis.
Nonfiction / Speech Writing / Journaling Prompt: Write about a time you did something without thinking and got a big surprise.
Art Prompt: surprise!
Nonfiction / Speech Writing Prompt: Write about a time when you got a big surprise.
If you’re brave, share your work as a comment. And now, I’ve got to get back to all those guys with martinis. I can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Photo Credit: Martini photo by Rodrigo Senna.
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