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Thanks to everyone for voting. I hope you find this pleasantly dark.
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
Picture it & Write is a weekly creative writing prompt hosted by the Ermilia coauthors, Ermisenda and Eliabeth. We invite you to join in; continue the story or starting your own based on inspiration from the image. Poetry and foreign languages are welcome, but please provide a translation. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
You cannot erase me! I am a person. You may never touch my hand or feel y heart beat, but you hear my voice in your mind and know each contour of my face. I have desires, aspirations, fears, and you know each of them. I have a past. I had a future. Just because your editor didn’t like me doesn’t mean I need to be rewritten. This is my story, not yours.
-Eliabeth Hawthorne
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Ermilia 
“A piece of art is like a human being.
It has a soul and can stop you in your tracks.
Creating a piece of artwork is like, going through life altogether.
The more details you put into it, the more the picture will come alive for you.
Every mistake you make, can be erased, but you can’t change everything.
You can’t change one thing without changing another.
You’re not perfect, so why shouldn’t your art too?”
Wow, I love what you said here… but I read it three times making the same mistake, so maybe I should share it. I read, “You can’t change one thing without changing the painter.”
Oooh! Thats better! I couldn’t get that last line to form right. I tried it in two other ways and I kind of just left it the way it was.
I like both endings. Beautiful analogy. Thanks, Meghan.
Nice thoughts, Meghan. It is the lot of artists, poets and painters, authors and sculptors, to create, review and re-create in cycle after cycle until either they drop dead from exhaustion or acquiesce and turn their eye from Eden… 😀 Eric
Thank you Eric! 🙂
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Ok, I just did my first ever Picture It & Write prompt. 🙂 I forgot to upload the contributor logo, is that okay?
That’s fine 😀 It’s an optional thing for anyone interested. I look forward to reading your submission, but it may take me a little bit. I’m trying to catch up on the Publication submissions so I’m not drowning in them at the end of the month.
Wow! This is a prime example of why I love reading responses to prompts; it’s so different from anything I would have come up with. I love the strong female and the overall message.
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Here is my submission for this challenge:
http://ericmvogt.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/the-artist/
I love the writing. For the most part I agree, but this part:
And last, Artist can arrange a
murder with darkest of intent,
or, if it pleases, change the bent
of those inclined to evil way.
…just makes me think of Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. The artist, or in this case the writer, cannot change the story unless the characters are willing. I hated the end of the book because it wasn’t a reasonable progression. The writer cannot wave a magic wand and fix everything; sometimes events have pushed the story beyond the reach of Happily Ever After.
My main thrust for this was: Any artist can use his creative skills for good or for evil, for enlightenment or for manipulation. There were many talented artists in the Nazi regime. A single line, poem, story, song, speech, canvas, photograph or film can incite a nation to war or lead it to repentence. There is much power in art. It should not be used lightly. 🙂 Eric
Wow, you really touched my heart with that one, Eliabeth! I love how you took it to a writing context and made it the story of our characters! I feel like that so often, like it’s their story, and so often wish I knew just how to express it. I tried back in the one with the green marionette. I think you said it just perfectly in a paragraph. Brava!
My story’s called Unhappy Medium.
There were so many spots that had me in fits of giggles. This was the first, “Suddenly angry at myself for not making the princess in my story look a lot more like me, I snapped my diary shut.” I particularly liked the idea of a dragon coughing up a hairball. I may have to use that on a fantasy RP I write. I also loved the Precious Moment’s Eyes.
I hope this story continues. The ideal boyfriend Frankenstein stories never get old.
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Here is my offering for this week
Enjoy
Joe
Hmm, interesting take on the picture. Personal preference, I don’t like anything with predestination, so this one fell flat for me. (I love the rest of your writing). I did enjoy that the characters essentially turned into the muses.
Hey, ‘muse! Great to see you over here!
Here is “Match Made In…:” http://starvingactivist.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/picture-it-write-match-made-in/
I hope you thought it was dark enough. I realize it’s not dark in the traditional way, but some of the scenarios in my head made it so. That poor girl! The first image reminds me of an IMDB caricature.
i love what you’ve done with it.. true enough, characters have a life of their own.. way beyond the artist’s control 🙂 wonderful. brb with my story. ^^
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This part reminds me so much of my mom, “[t]he basin was a sudsy wonderland… a magnificent musicale where wine goblets would line up and display their graceful pirouette… two silver knives waving about in the air to conduct the orchestra of dishes in their exultant symphony… Mrs. Spoon sparkling in glee as Mr. Fork bends his lithe body in a rather elegant bow to kiss her hand.” She taught me to turn chores into games to make them go faster. Laundry wasn’t about washing clothes, it was about dancing and shooting baskets.
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This was a lovely write-up. A character coming to life. My contribution for this week:
http://call2read.com/2013/02/18/picture-it-write-rehans-picture/
Now that’s a true artist. She’d totally piss off her subjects, but she sees what’s beneath the surface and isn’t afraid to speak her mind.
So excited to be contributing for the first time this week! I loved reading the stories submit by others. Here’s mine:
http://fate423.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/the-drawing/
Beautiful! Thanks for contributing to our writing prompt. If you would like to have your photography featured, let us know and we’ll try to work it in. We’re also turning some of these contributions into a publication supporting charity so that could be some good exposure for you.
I originally wrote this whole long thing, but it felt contrived and pointlessly complex. Instead, you get this:
“Why are you doing this to me? You made me what I am!”
But, I want to read contrived and pointlessly complex! Nice short take though.
Stabbing. Emotion wrapped up in two sentences. Thanks for contributing.
Ooooo I love the spin on the picture. Great message about marriage as well.
http://prisailurophileblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/picture-it-write-a-short-story-vi/
My contribution for this week! I feel that my writing has gone immensely rusty:/ Anyway, thank you for reading 🙂
Another great pic to get our creative juices flowing – the above is my contribution.
My post is as follows:
Renewal
Hi! My first time here. Hope you enjoy my take: http://taptaptapisanybodyoutthere.blogspot.com/2013/02/careful-what-you-wish-for.html
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Here is my submission for the week. Some violence some cursing. Enjoy. I saw the picture in a different light.
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Hello! Just discovered your blog, so I hope I have gotten the ‘rules’ of it correct!
Here is my submission:
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http://mythoughtsonthesubjectareasfollows.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/1593/ Enjoy!
It absolutely amazes me that people can actually draw like that!!
Me too!
This is a photo manipulation. No actual drawing. There are links to all the individual pictures used and to the work-in-progress.
I like the idea that the story is not ours to mess with.
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Here’s my first 🙂
Having problems in getting the picture though! 😦
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