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Daily Creativity #85: Take a Panorama Collage Photo

Post Published July 17, 2020 by Liam Hancock

Take a panorama image with your phone/ tablet/ other device with this feature, but move the camera quickly around the room or area to create a collage of your surroundings.

Daily Creativity #84: Create a Fantasy Character with Your Traits

Post Published July 16, 2020 by Liam Hancock

Jot down a list of all your traits. Write a fantasy story revolving around a character that shares some, if not all of these same traits and see what they do. How do they handle the situation? Then, add in a villain of the story with complete opposite traits. Will the main character duel with the villain? Run away? How will the two characters interact?

Daily Creativity #83: Use Colors That Don’t Work Together

Post Published July 15, 2020 by Liam Hancock

Create an art piece using any number of colors that don’t usually work together.

Daily Creativity #82: Write about Predator and Prey Switching Places

Post Published July 14, 2020 by Liam Hancock

Write about what may happen if predator and prey switched places (i.e. if a mouse switched places with a bird, or if a fly switched places with a frog). How would the food chain work? How would the prey feel about becoming a predator? How would the predator feel about becoming the prey? You may switch off perspective or focus on one of the two in a poem, play, short story, or other form of media.

Daily Creativity #81 | Flash Contest: Write an Unsettling Poem

Post Published July 13, 2020 by Liam Hancock

Create a poem with an eerie or creepy tone. You can make the poem as nonsensical or as relatable as possible, but retain the sense of being unsettled throughout. This is a Monday prompt, so if you are writing your response in the week it was first published, you can submit it to our Weekly Flash Contest, via Submittable!

Daily Creativity #80: Make Your Favorite Food the Protagonist

Post Published July 10, 2020 by Anna Rowell

Imagine your favorite food as a protagonist in a story. Describe their personality and defining features – are they quiet? Intelligent? Short? Grumpy? The choice is up to you. What do they like to do? Who are their friends? Write “A day in the life” story about them.

Daily Creativity #79: Write a Poem about Real and Mythical Animals

Post Published July 9, 2020 by Jane Levi

Write a bestiary (a poem about real and mythical animals).

Daily Creativity #78: Write about Your Favorite Activity

Post Published July 8, 2020 by Jane Levi

What is your favorite activity? Is it running, baking cookies, building models, growing crystals, biking? Write one paragraph of instructions for someone else who has never done this activity before, explaining how to do it. Then, write another paragraph explaining why you love it, and what you think they will get out of giving it a try.

Daily Creativity #77: Write about What You’re Thinking about Right Now

Post Published July 7, 2020 by Molly Torinus

Write about what you're thinking about in this exact moment. It doesn't have to make any sense.

Daily Creativity #76: Write a Story Inspired by a Renoir Painting

Post Published July 6, 2020 by Jane Levi

Look at this painting by Renoir (Dance at the Moulin de la Galette) and imagine yourself in this scene. Who are you? Why are you there? What can you see, smell, hear? What has just happened? What are you going to do next? Write a short story or prose poem inspired by this painting, from the perspective of the character you have imagined.

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