{"id":795,"date":"2009-02-20T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T13:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2016-03-16T21:41:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T04:41:41","slug":"creative-prompt-1-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/creative-prompt-1-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Prompt #1: Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Prompt project was inspired by many people and blogs. I started thinking about it after listening to many of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativemompodcast.com\">Creative Mom podcasts<\/a>. Just FYI: I did a <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/another-reason-to-mention-the-creative-mom-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a> of the CMP as well. I have some ideas for creative prompt projects that don&#8217;t involve quiltmaking, but this latest phenomenon just exploded on to the scene. <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/illustrated-journals\/\" target=\"_blank\">A few people started talking<\/a> about it after I wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/illustrated-journals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illustrated Journals post<\/a>. Suddenly, the idea became something. I am pretty excited: excited because of the enthusiasm shown my <a href=\"http:\/\/lmpoole.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Linda<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/walkerlady.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sherri<\/a>, excited by the support shown by <a href=\"http:\/\/highfibercontent.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Julie<\/a> and excited to just do it, like the Nike ad says.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I am going to do:<\/p>\n<p>1. Every week (probably Friday) I will post a creative prompt. It may be words or pictures or something else.<\/p>\n<p>2. I will do a drawing or some kind of creative endeavor with that prompt<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the gang have said that they will:<\/p>\n<p>1. Do a drawing, doodle, collage, write poetry, jot down a few words, origami, whatever every week.<\/p>\n<p>2. Post a link to their efforts to the comments section.<\/p>\n<p>Just see what you think of for the prompt and draw, write, collage, sew or whatever something. If you don&#8217;t like the prompt, look around and let something else inspire you.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to join in, please feel welcome. If you don&#8217;t have a blog or website, open a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a> account for FREE and post your work there.<\/p>\n<p>There is more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/aq-prompts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Prompt Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how long it lasts and what comes of it.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first creative prompt is <em>Beginnings<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anna Maria Horner talks about Beginnings in her <a href=\"http:\/\/annamariahorner.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/maybe-my-favorite-word-beginning.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Creative Prompt project was inspired by many people and blogs. I started thinking about it after listening to many of the Creative Mom podcasts. Just FYI: I did a review of the CMP as well. I have some ideas for creative prompt projects that don&#8217;t involve quiltmaking, but this latest phenomenon just exploded on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/creative-prompt-1-beginnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creative Prompt #1: Beginnings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[79,311,72],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-creative-prompt","tag-creativity","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}