darren r hill

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  • Fire — 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.

    The festival of Beltane marks the point between the spring equinox and mid-summer solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is observed at the beginning of May. Many of the ancient customs and rituals associated with Beltane involve burning and marking people and boundaries with ashes. Therefore…

    This week’s creative prompt word is:

    Fire — a process in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke; combustion or burning

    this isn’t the only definition of Fire, in fact, as you’ll see later, I quite like this… one of the four elements in ancient and medieval philosophy

    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

    I now have ‘fire’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Alchemists regarded fire as the change agent. Fire would change element to element. And the alchemists’ goal was to create gold. What creative gold will our alchemy refine this week?

    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 #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.

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  • Silence — Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    A Fiction and Journal Writing Prompt exploring silence to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

    I hear nothing. There should be a cacophony, but there is only silence.

    Writing Prompt Expanded

    Last week was all about sound so this week it seems only fitting that we delve into the opposite. It is often easier to write about something that is there. Something that has shape and form, that triggers our senses. The challenge here is to write about something that doesn’t exist. The prompt should help a little in that it suggests an expectancy of sound.

    This prompt is all about silence, a complete lack of sound. It is about describing something that isn’t there.

    • What sound should there be?
    • How do you describe the absence of sound?
    • Why is there no sound?

    There is a lot of scope for creativity if you use this as a fiction prompt. You might be expecting noise from children having fun, a machine running, or a pet playing. It works well in both funny or sinister situations. As a journal prompt, it gives plenty of space to think about where the sound should or shouldn’t be in our lives, and again, how do you express this artfully on the page?

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

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  • Silence — 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’s creative prompt was sound. It was about capturing something among the chaos. This week I want to explore the complete opposite. I want space and emptiness. As an introvert who likes a little solitude and quiet, I am quite looking forward to this week. Therefore…

    This week’s creative prompt word is:

    Silence — complete absence of sound

    there are other meanings or ways to describe silence, but it is the word absence that is interesting to 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

    I now have ‘silence’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I have a habit of overcomplicating things, from my journal set-up to my creative projects. I am hopeful that exploring silence will help me create some space in my process and even in my music.

    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 #thecreativeminimalist on any social platform.

    Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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    d
    xox

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  • Sound — Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    A Fiction Writing and Journal Prompt about sound to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply explore, write and create.

    a sound, clear and unique despite the background noise, a pattern defined among the chaos fiction and journal writing prompt

    a sound, clear and unique despite the background noise, a pattern defined among the chaos

    Writing Prompt Expanded

    We all know what it is like to hear a sudden, new sound. When all is silent even the slightest noise can awaken our senses and put us on alert. However, the same is true when there is a lot of background noise. Our hearing notices the unique and different.

    This prompt is all about sound, its description and the narrator’s response.

    • What is the sound?
    • Can you describe the sound using other senses?
    • What is the reaction, the felt response to the sound?

    The setting for this prompt could be anything. The same goes for whether you write in the first or third person or any other perspective. It could be a personal memory if you are writing in your journal, or it could be the beginning of a very scary story.

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

    Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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    xox

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  • Sound — 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.

    All of our senses play an important part in our lives. This is shown when we lose the use of one, either temporarily or permanently. However, the loss of one often augments another. Being a composer the sense of sound plays a deep and meaningful role in my life; from strikes to melodies, quiet to loud and everything in-between. Therefore…

    This week’s creative prompt word is:

    Sound — vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person’s or animal’s ear

    there are other meanings for the word, but I wanted to give the broadest possible definition to begin

    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

    I now have ‘sound’ written on the board above my computer. I am confident it will inspire me on my creative journey this week. Furthermore, I want to think about sound as a whole as I create my music this week. I will also explore sound in other mediums. For instance, what does sound look like 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.

    Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
    namaste
    d
    xox

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  • Enough — Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    A Fiction Writing or Journal Prompt to stretch the literary muscles. No rules. No word counts. Simply write and explore.

    That was it, anything more would be too much. It was time to stop. It was enough. Friday Fiction Writing Prompt

    That was it, anything more would be too much. It was time to stop. It was enough.

    Writing Prompt Expanded

    We live in a world where we are bombarded by advertisements. We are told that our lives aren’t good enough, and they could be so much better. The solution for a better life is to get more. We are urged to upgrade and collect. We discover new issues that we didn’t know existed, however, the solution is available if we obtain it. We live in a world where more is seen as better, or good.

    This prompt is all about having enough. Can we think and write about not needing more? The context of the prompt is deliberately open.

    • What does the narrator have enough of?
    • How does the narrator know that there is enough?
    • What feelings does having enough bring out?

    This prompt lends itself very well to both fiction — especially sci-fi or an intense relationship — and personal reflection. Be aware that it might trigger some deep relational emotions, if so, do talk to a trained counsellor. One question to keep in mind as you do write… are there ever enough words?

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

    Original beach image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

    Thank you for reading this post. Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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    d
    xox

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