If you like the quote below you can find out more by visiting Jonathan's blog “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off… They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.” - Pearl Buck How do you kickstart creativity? Cheers, TartanFrog
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For more great photographs - check out the National Geographic blog Every one of the sticky notes in the photograph —taken in Antigua, Guatemala—is inscribed with the words ‘Te Amo, Cristina’. My first thought was that I wanted to see this house for myself. I wanted to meet this Cristina. Who was she and who loved her so much? Although the original scenario that lit up in my imagination went something like the famous novel Love in the Time of Cholera and Florentino’s unrequited love for Fermina, it was soon replaced by another scenario. What if Cristina were a child? Imagine a world where people didn’t just say they loved children, but took concrete actions on a daily basis so that every child would know this without question. Imagine this world... I will be back tomorrow with more writing contest updates... P.S. For his sculptures see here. If Tarak's paintings can't inspire a story, I don't know what will... I invite you to check out his albums, both the paintings and the sketches: www.facebook.com/pages/Tarak-Mahadi/56448084235 Or his profile page on the Brooklyn Art Project. This one to my left made me think of 'The Sentimentalists' which I'm reading (see Giller winner below). I should finish it later today. To my UNICEF colleagues, don't forget the writing contest deadline is Monday!! Photograph by streetbonersandtvcarnage.com Here's an image to spur on those awful memories in your head, you know the ones... someone you thought you could count on throws you under the bus... Hell, for me that's easy! I attended my personal stoning last night. Nothing like a 'kind-spirited' community of writers to inspire you to burn every last word on every last page you've ever dared to waste ink on. Oh, and the icing on the cake: I said thank you! Yes, thank you for letting me know that I have great ideas, but can't write anything worth shit!! Thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Contest: Once you've written down your version of the cruel-hearted bastards who threw you under the bus, you might want to try your luck in: The Writer's Digest 11th Annual Short Short Story Competition ( in 1,500 words or fewer). But don't be too long about it—the deadline is Thursday, December 1, 2010 First Place: $3,000 and a trip to the Writer's Digest Conference in New York City Second Place: $1,500 Third Place: $500 Fourth Through Tenth Place: $100 See http://www.writersdigest.com/short for more details. Cheers, TartanFrog Check out another writing deadline below... Thinking about Remembrance Day made me grab the camera and snap a picture of my favourite photograph. Sorry about the quality. It's a picture within a picture. Can you see the true image? If this doesn't spark a creative story... Michael Chisolm is the brilliant photographer who framed this image in Prague. I met Micheal when I first moved into 'Faulty Towers' on Spring Garden Road, Halifax. I used to chat with him by the gate at the Public Gardens where he sold his photographs. I still remember that black beret he used to wear. I only bought two of his photographs, and have always regretted not buying his book before he died. If anyone has a copy and would be willing to part with it, I'd love to buy it... And now back to WRITING COMPETITIONS and a FAVOURITE WEBSITE: The Deadline for the Atlantic Writing Competition for Unpublished Manuscripts is December 4, 2010. So go download the entry form if you're planning to try your luck. For more information, go to the Writer's Fed website. Now to the Evil Editor (subtitled: Why You Don't Get Published). One of the interesting aspects of this blog is called 'New Beginnings' - you can submit the first 150 - 200 words of a book/story. Evil Editor's minions will provide a brief continuation of the book, and will then provide comments on the opening. Happy Scribing All, TartanFrog From CBC: "A tearful Johanna Skibsrud shows off her Giller Prize trophy." Photograph by Aaron Vincent Elkaim/Canadian Press That's right! As they say a picture speaks a thousand words... For those of you hoping to fill her shoes someday, don't forget the 'First Five Pages' contest. Deadline is November 15th! For more info - see below... Good luck to all! TartanFrog SCN Annual Novel Pitch & First 5 Pages Contest, sponsored by Smoke City Narrators. Email/Snail Mail: 1. First 5 pages of a novel, 1,500 words max. 2. One-sentence synopsis of the novel, 25 words or less. (Novel does not have to be complete.) Awards: $150, $75, $40. Feedback posted on website. Entry fee: $8.50. Deadline: Postmarked or e-mailed by November 15, 2010. Info: www.janicewiley-dorn.com/smokecitynarrators.html. Anyone who's stepped foot into the pad I inhabit has likely left under the assumption that I'm an art lover - it's true, I love and live for art- my favourite paintings and photographs peer at me no matter where I sit. So I guess it makes sense that I would gab about them. So here's my first stab at this thing called 'BLOG'...from a TartanFrog (refering to my Caper roots and Acadian frogness). My aim here will be to try to post a new artistic inspiration twice a week that you might use to spur on some writing. I wrote my first novel while staring at a charcoal drawing my friend Heather gave me. Ah yes, I will include a brief 'about' the art also. ABOUT 'Baile': Btw, for anyone wondering, yes, the word 'baile' means 'dance' from the Spanish 'bailar' or 'to dance'. This is one of my favourite paintings by Diego Rivera. Though not as well known as many others, it has been close to my heart this week as I've been writing about the dance and the dancer. I felt compelled to re-write the ending of my second novel to show the growth of the main protagonist, Sabine. She reflects on the madness in the world of her contemporaries (she is 18 years old in the year 2019). It seems to her that everyone is bustling about so much and that all this fidgeting, whether it be globe-trotting, changing jobs and lovers, is symptomatic of a lack of connectedness. She compares it to a French dance move known as 'chasse-croise'...Over to you: Happy Scribing, TartanFrog
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