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Official (Unofficial) Rules for the Ekphrastic Challenge Part 2!
Your photos are so BEAUTIFUL! We got 14 gems and I’m very excited to announce the assignments for the writing part of this challenge. Oh, and before I forget to mention it, I WILL be doing this again in the future, so if anybody missed it, no worries. I’ll be back in the fall!
By Mackenzie Davis2 years ago in Writers
I Published a Poetry Book
Long time, no see. I've had a lot going on in my life for the past year or so, and I have been feeling incredibly stagnant.
By Ashley Lima2 years ago in Writers
Color as a Storytelling Device
Think of the color green for a moment. Free associate the meaning of the color. In societal terms, green means go. Stop lights are a universal totem, red for stop, yellow for slow down, green for go. The cultural-societal association of these colors to specific meanings allows you as a writer to use these colors as a storytelling device. You can use peoples associations with color as a way of demonstrating something about your character visually. Green also has a cultural association, in America anyway, with money. Money is green and thus if you code your character with green and create a visual association with money, you've revealed character traits.
By Sean Patrick2 years ago in Writers
Poppy’s Prompts | #6
Hello again! For those of you who are regulars, welcome back. For those of you who are new, here are the rules (or lack of them).
By Poppy 2 years ago in Writers
Fantastical Vocal Favorites Vol. IV
Welcome back everyone to a very special volume of Fantastical Vocal Favorites! Before choosing the pieces to be featured on FVF, I like to think of a theme or 'vibe' I want to shoot for so that all stories picked fit with each other in some way shape or form.
By Amanda Starks2 years ago in Writers
Love For Life and Health
If I could share anything with the children of the future, it would be ________________ Rupi Kaur’s Gratitude Writing Prompts
By Denise E Lindquist2 years ago in Writers
How I created a poetry artbook
Back in at the very beginning of February, my brain began to itch with a new idea: a fusion of artwork and poetry. I protested the idea for a few days... it seemed too far fetched, I felt too inexperienced, it was too vulnerable to put something like that out into the world.
By Bri Craig2 years ago in Writers
Scripting Utopia
I began writing this article today and instead ended up with this one below (which I had to then rename!). I often get lost on a tangent from where I begin because I realise I need to give context - otherwise I fear ending up trying to explain a book worthy concept in the comments section 😅
By Kayleigh Fraser ✨2 years ago in Writers
The Right Kind of Rejection
I consider it a privilege that, as of writing this, seventy-two Vocal writers have subscribed to me, presumably because they liked my work enough that they would want to be notified if I'd published something new.
By Catherine Dorian2 years ago in Writers
Inside the Animal's Mind [an unofficial challenge]
Hellooo Vocal Creators! I have noticed a few other creators doing their own unofficial challenges, and I thought I'd try to hop on the bandwagon! Let's see if we can get some contestants! (And hopefully it can become a monthly thing!)
By Belle2 years ago in Writers
Why You Should Start Writing Everything Down
Writing is the conversion of energy into mass. It cements the words born from your mind right into the heart of the universe. It ingrains these tiny marks, these little pieces of you, into the fabric of life. It converts the energy of your brain into tangible, cosmic molecules — particles of ink on paper.
By em2 years ago in Writers
Delicious Nightmares
There is nothing novel in the observation that a good cinema experience is akin to a waking dream. We sit in darkness and become enveloped in a world of images that we piece together to form a narrative. Sometimes the images overpower us and we struggle with the paralysis of a nightmare. And then the lights come back up and we take a breath to remember it was not real, we were not in that car crash, we were not in a fight, we were not a lover being romanced. And we need a moment between the last credit and the real world to gather our thoughts to find meaning in what we have seen.
By Rachel Robbins2 years ago in Writers