#covid creativity

Written by professional writer’s Lori & Natascha Graham, the Writer’s Journal is the perfect book to banish writer’s block and promote creativity! It even has note pages after each prompt to note down your writing and ideas!

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Welcome! Maybe you found this book because you get stuck in the same patterns. Perhaps you did a few Google searches and came up with writing prompts that were a bit disappointing. (Imagine you are an alien, what would you eat for dinner? Not that inspiring). Maybe the pandemic has you feeling stuck creatively.We decided to write these prompts to inspire you to dig a bit deeper than the typical internet search prompts to get you out of that slump and into writing literature, poetry, creative non-fiction or just writing for the fun of it.Some prompts may not inspire you, skip them. Others may help you to start a longer piece. The goal is to get yourself into the habit of writing, even if you don’t feel like you can think of anything to write. We all have a nice fairy and a critical fairy. One on each shoulder. Let the nice one help you write your first draft. Then bring out the critical fairy and let her fix the errors. If you bring out the critical fairy first, your writing will not be as carefree or honest. You will be spending too much time trying to be perfect. (Not that we have any experience with that or anything) Try to allow your writing to just flow out of you and enjoy the process.Suggested ways to use this journal:Visit our Pinterest page (The page is called “Not the Writing Prompts You Find on the Internet”) that we made for this book to visually inspire you. Daily inspirations to aid the creative process.Choose a theme or book that you are planning to write and use these prompts as ideas or inspiration for scenes in your story.Write every day, or use this when you need inspiration.Start an online writer’s group and inspire your friends to write with you.Practice and explore different genres, themes and writing techniques as well as creating and staying in character, and writing believable dialogue.We wish you the best in all of your writing endeavours!

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Sidewalk art

As i mentioned in an earlier blog, high water and a paucity of salmon this year have left the Hammond Bay Refuge Harbor all but abandoned.

The tribal net boats are around, as are vast gaggles of geese ... and me.

So light is the pedestrian traffic, in fact, that a mystery artist saw an opportunity to leave this graphite-pebble creation on what, in a normal summer, is a well used sidewalk leading to the boat slips.

Another example, perhaps, of “COVID Creativity” - one byproduct of too much time on our collective hands, and the need for a place to spend our nervous energy.

I recently made this gorgeous mini mandala using the Mandala 1 pattern from @annavirkpanna #minimandalacal isn't it pretty!

I was tagged by the lovely @textsfromumbridge. Spread positivity, not corona.

1. Robin Hood: Men in Tights. My go-to comedy. A parody of Robin Hood à la Mel Brooks, with a young Cary Elwes. Need I say more?

2. Legally Blonde. When I need an energy boost, I watch this movie. Usually after an exams or deadlines, this movie is my curl-up-in-a-blanket-with-cookies-and-tea favourite. Want to listen to songs as well? The musical is on Youtube.

3. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Need something bingeable in terms of comfort movies and shows? This is ideal. Laughs, seriousness, representation of every type of person, wonderful actors, condensed in 25 min episodes.

4. Galavant. In case the Robin Hood parody wasn’t enough, here’s a parody of the epic. Dashing knight rescuing a damsel in distress. Everyting is funny, the fourth wall is broken more times than I can count, music by Alan Menken, the actors and actresses are gorg. Yup, it’s goodness in a nutshell.

5. Pride & Prejudice (2005). Need some romance? This movie will make you sob and believe in love again. Although the 1995 mini-series is closer to the book word-by-word and is wonderful in its own right, the 2005 film is Aesthetic™. If you need to battle boredom however, why limit yourself to one version? 

6. Queer Eye. 5 well-dressed gay men sharing joy, making people’s lives better again. Lots of “yas queen”s thrown around, raiding people’s closets, truth bombs every 3 minutes, and Bobby Berk being able to transform any place into a safe haven of prettiness, comfort and overall feeling of home.