Picture it & Write

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creative writing, drawing, photography, poetry, writing, writing prompt

Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation).

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.

You see an empty field. I see a playground for my daughter.
You see discarded bottles and trash. I see benches where people can rest their feet after a long day.
You see a stream filled with chemicals. I see an opportunity for a fishing spot.
You see disaster. I see opportunity.
My fingers bring to life what my imagination concocted.

–Eliabeth Hawthorne

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Picture it & Write

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art, characters, creative writing, drawing, fiction, photography, poetry, writing, writing exercise, writing prompt

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

Show pride for being a Picture it & Write contributor by displaying the button on your blog.  Please link back to the Picture it & Write category or Ermiliablog!

Every fortnight we hope to host a photograph suggested by contributors. So, keep those photograph recommendations coming. Submit your favourite images (with credit) for next week’s Picture it & Write!

__txt 4 lyfe

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article, comic, drawing, english, funny, harvard, image, language, learning, life, photo, school, skills, text speak, txting, writing

I found this picture and I thought it was pretty funny. With certain individuals you can find this kind of text talk on facebook as well. I’m not a grammar Nazi but I don’t like text talk. I find it can often take more time to figure out what they’re trying to say then it would have taken to write it out properly. When you’re writing in a text message, I understand the desire to shorten, I do too from time to time. But if I have the room, I’ll just write it out properly.

I went to school for so many years so, why throw out all the English I learned? Presumably, despite what the teachers may have liked to think, English’s core purpose (at the very least) during high school was to improve one’s communication skills and confidence with the written language to prepare one for reading and writing (rather than specifically essays, poetry and creative writing skills). So, at the very least I can use full words instead of text speak in everyday life. That’s what I figure at least.

What are your thoughts?

EDIT: Hilarious article, a must read!

“If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building.”

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__information is food

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cartoon, consumption, cooking, diet, drawing, fiction, food, information, inspiration, life, reading, recipe, technology, TEDtalk, video, writing

I recently watched JP Rangaswarmi’s TEDtalk on information. It inspired me to write this post which includes a summary of what he talks about and my thoughts. At first, I thought it was all a bit silly. Seeing information as food? I could get the obvious analogies but I didn’t really see why looking at it from that perspective was of any use. But then I kept thinking a bit more…

__quote: what lies behind us

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” 

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

A quote to keep us going. 🙂 Isn’t the drawing amazing? It’s by ERIKA KUHN.

– Ermisenda Alvarez

__artwork: does this look like the inside of your head?

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art, artwork, books, drawing, head, library, paul rumsey, pencil, reading, writing

These artworks were created by the talented Paul Rumsey. Reblogged on Ermisenda‘s tumblr.

Does this look like the inside of your head? I definitely can’t count the amount of books I’ve read let alone the amount of words I’ve absorbed.

Like or dislike?

– Ermisenda Alvarez

New Year, New Galleries – Contest

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art, Blind Sight, books, character, contest, drawing, fiction, novel, painting, photography, reading, urban fantasty, writing

Once again, Happy New Year!  We’re inviting artists, photographers, and anyone else to post images of one of our Blind Sight characters to go in a gallery on the blog and on Facebook. The prize this time?  Both volumes of our debut novel, Blind Sight.

One volume is told through the eyes of Leocardo Reyes and the other through the eyes of Aniela Dawson so the first galleries of 2012 will feature them.  Entries for the contest are open through February 29.  Winners will be announced on the day of Blind Sight‘s release: March 1.  Submissions to the gallery will remain open after February 29, but will not be eligible for the contest.

Like Blind Sight on Facebook!

__drawing of Odette

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art, Blind Sight, books, contest, creative, drawing, Odette Reyes, photography, reading, writing

Weeks ago, during a slow afternoon I was bored. I picked up my pencil and paper and began to draw. I wanted to draw, it was a sudden urge and I followed it. I tried to illustrate my interpretation of Odette. In reality she looks barely like the Odette I imagine but I did try. This inspired the talented Eliabeth to draw a photograph I took. Then we decided to start the Odette character gallery competition.

Click here for more details. I thought I would post my interpretation, pencil and paper as my medium, and remind anyone interested that the contest ends tomorrow (but the gallery is always open to submissions). Congratulations to all of those who have contributed amazing creations, we have been very impressed. For those who still wish to participate, happy art-ing!

– Ermisenda

50-2500-50; Celebration and Contest!

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art, Blind Sight, contest, drawing, facebook, gallery, photography, Twitter, writing

50+ “likes” on our FB page
2500+ views on our blog
50+ followers on Twitter

Time to celebrate and thank you guys for your support and encouragement.

We are inviting artists, photographers, and anyone else to post images of one of our Blind Sight characters to go in a gallery on the blog and on Facebook.  One submission has the potential to be printed on a t-shirt.

Odette Reyes is the main character whose story spans both volumes of the first book. Blind from birth, her ability to draw is abnormal even for the magical world of Edaion where she and her brother find themselves after mysteriously ripped from their life in Spain. Our first gallery is going to be dedicated to her.

The contest:
Odette is a sixteen year old with straight medium brown hair that falls just past her shoulders. Freckles cross her nose and cheeks on an olive skin tone and we would like her blindfolded.  Abstract images and photography are encouraged as much as realism. For an optional challenge, you may draw eyes over the blindfold as if embroidered or printed on the fabric.  Your submission may be in any medium and does not need to be in color.  Submissions for the contest end November 5th but submissions for the galleries will always be welcome.  All submissions will be posted to the blog and Facebook galleries and one winner will have the option of having their design on Blind Sight merchandise.