darren r hill

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  • Elements – Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    A Fiction Writing Prompt exploring elements and recipe, to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

    All the ingredients were finally there. Every essential element was ready. Now… Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    All the ingredients were finally there. Every essential element was ready. Now…

    Writing Prompt Expanded

    My personality likes to have everything ready and in place. I like to know where all the things are that I need to use. I like to have all the elements that will be required at my disposal. My personality rarely gets what it wants. My actions don’t always match my needs, but that’s another story. Today’s story, pice of fiction, is yours.

    This prompt is all about listing, planning and doing. One way to look at this fiction prompt is to think of it as a recipe. The creative part is to decide who is using the recipe and what are they making. It is a recipe, but what is the recipe for? Is it a literal recipe or a metaphor? Just like the metaphor of a journey, a recipe can be for all aspects of life, so this also makes an ideal journal prompt.

    What are the ingredients for?

    • the primordial soup?
    • the healing chicken soup?
    • the cure for all ills?
    • the ill that has no cure?

    The list of possibilities is endless, so choose one of the above if you need a little guidance. And remember the most important ingredient in fiction writing and any writing is you. All you need to do is turn up and put pen to paper or finger to keyboard and begin. You are the essential element.

    As always these writing prompts are optional and entirely open to your interpretation. Use them as a starting point for a short story or something a little more grandiose. If you do write something, please share it or a link, in the comments, use the hashtag #ffwp or tag me @darrenrhill. I’d love to read what you create. Write and enjoy the learning process.

    Original spices image by Barbara Rosner from Pixabay

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  • Elements — Weekly Creative Prompt

    It’s time for another weekly creative prompt word. These weekly words, or prompts, are to give me, and anyone else who wants to join in, some focus to our creative work.

    Last week I tried to merge two musical ideas. In my head I could hear them working together and seeing as both had come to a creative halt, I thought this could be the solution. Notes, motifs, and many other constituent parts make music. Therefore…

    This week’s creative prompt word is:

    Elements — an essential or characteristic part of something:

    I have a strong personality trait that likes to know how things works and are made, so this is perfect for me

    Let the prompt inspire you in any area of creativity that you are interested:

    • writing fiction
    • art journaling
    • songwriting
    • journaling
    • photography
    • painting
    • composing
    • blog posts
    • art therapy
    • anything that could use a little nudge to begin

    When I put the two musical elements together they clashed, they reverberated, and they jostled with each other. One thing they didn’t do together was work. The musical elements were incompatible. But without trying, without attempting, I would never have known. And now I have learned something; sounding good in my head does not overrule the fundamentals of music theory. In fact, the reason it didn’t work was that both ideas had too many elements already in them to mix into something new. (Breaking rules can work and is a great creative tool, but in this case, it didn’t.)

    I now have ‘elements’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I can already feel it impinging on how I might move those musical pieces forward and play in my journal.

    As mentioned before, this isn’t a ‘challenge’ but the prompts can be used that way if you want. If you do create anything using them, I would love to see or hear about it. Leave a link in the comments below or tag me @darrenrhill or #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.

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