BLOCK BUSTERS

Welcome to block-busters, a series where I share a bunch (a whole month's worth) of prompts to get your creativity flowing. Use these prompts to draw, to write, to create whatever on earth you feel inspired to create! And please, let me know what you make with them - I love to see!! Feel free to email, comment, or tag the posts #tmtumakes to share! 

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Describe yourself in three words or less
The wind and it’s ways
“She never told him she would stay…”
Frosted windows
Letting chocolate melt inside your mouth
A love spell
“I never thought I’d see you again”
Decribe as many kinds of snow as you can
A drop of water clung to his lips as he drank
Her eyes held his for just a second more than was comfortable
There was something strange about her
The softest of blankets
Golden tattoos
The feeling of your fingers thawing
You found a wallet. What’s inside of it?
Describe the best and worst friends you’ve ever had
What’s been lost to the past
An ancient love story
He ran his hands over the initials carved there years ago…
A bouquet of flowers
An apology
The first feeling of spring
Describe 10 different memories of water
6 sunsets
The best dessert you’ve ever eaten.
“He wasn’t what I expected him to be.”
A broken machine
Every kind of weather seemed to be happening all at once
She yawned, her head slumped against her hand.
Imaginary constellations
A list of plants I’ve killed.

I hope you enjoyed this month's posts. Happy creating, and don't forget to share/tag your work - I can't wait to see what you make!

BLOCK BUSTERS

Stuck with what to do creatively? I know the feeling - creative block, whether it’s writer’s block, art block, inspiration block, whatever block - I’ve been there. It sucks to have the wind blown out of you sails. 

Elizabeth Gilbert says that ideas are fleeting and have a life of their own - they spend their time searching for someone's door to knock on, waiting for someone to give them a home. Sometimes they just don't knock at the right time. 

I’ve got you covered. Here’s a list of a bunch of thoughts and ideas I’ve had that just haven't grabbed my interest at the right moment. Maybe one of them will inspire you to keep on creating. 

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-Mermaid jesters

-What if Frankenstein were his own doctor

-What does the wind look like?

-Are animals real? Do they have their own society? What do they say about us when we’re not around?

-Speaking of animals, how strange are pets, right? Little creatures who just bum around and sleep with us.

-What is loyalty?

-Can you buy anything you want?

-What are the intrinsic morals in humanity? Are there any?

-Make a team of encouragers - people you admire who are doing what you want to do. Make a little circle of cheer and surround yourself with their pictures.

-Collect a bunch of quotes on writing and creativity. Write them and post them where you’ll see them.

-Try to think of nothing for five minutes. Tips: Ask yourself ‘I wonder what my next thought will be’ or focus on four squares in your mind’s eye. Eliminate them one by one until you’re focusing on nothing at all.

-Whatever you’re trying to create, take 5 minutes and create utter garbage. The most garbage-y garbage you can do.

-Do it again and again until you’ve gotten it all out of your system

-Then try creating again. It’s not that bad, eh?

-‘The best food in the world is in a little Chinese buffet two blocks from my house’

-Go outside.

-What is under the earth?

-How did flowers come to evolve?

-Were there cultures and people and empires before our own? How long does human history really stretch?

-Princess hair

-Plot structures of different media - shonens vs. American cartoons. Marvel vs. Gothic novels.

-The different qualities of light.

-Different types of horoscopes and fortune telling - from engrams to Chinese astrology

-‘Yes, but what’s that?’

-Make up your own.

-The colours we can’t see

-Clothing and the stories of different fabric

-Looking in to windows

-How many stars are we really looking at?

-What the hell is up with Antarctica?

-Wounds and the body’s healing process

-Mathematics vs. Everything else.

-Lets make guys the Mary Sues and deride them instead

-‘This was before he turned in to the moon.’

-Everybody is obsessed with the same thing

That’s all I’ve got for now. Maybe something grabbed your interest. Feel free to take, alter and create with any of these strange little ideas. They’d love a new home. And if you were inspired by any of these prompts - let me know! I’d love to see what you did with them!