30 Creative Prompts — activities to get you exercising your creative muscles
I didn’t feel like sharing this earlier in the week with everything going on but I made a little ebook and course of 30 creative prompts. These are fun little challenges to get you thinking differently and exercising your creative muscle so you can be creative on demand.
It was a little creative challenge from my wife and was suppose to take me a month to do…well, life happened and it took a few extra months to actually put it together and get it up, but draft one is here.
In the future, I hope to add more prompts and perhaps show some examples.
It’s normally $10 but for Micro.Blogranauts, I have a special discount where you can get it for $1 (plus tax). Just use the code MICROBLOG.
Enjoy!
What if Roam was local first and used plain text files? Maybe Obsidian is that app.
But no iPad app… yet?
Currently Reading 📚: A Meal with Jesus – Tim Chester
When people use Martin Luther King Jr‘s peaceful protests as a rebuke of the current protests, it’s worth remembering that he was accused of stirring up trouble as well.
For some reason my daughter keeps asking me to draw penguins for her. So here are some penguin images.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Twinkies don't exist (spoiler, it's not about twinkies)
I’ve never seen a twinky, so they can’t exist. Sure, sometimes one appears on TV in a fictional series or on the news but that doesn’t mean they are actually real. Many of my friends have never seen a twinky either and I suspect those who say they have seen a twinky really saw something else. Even if twinkies were real, which they are not, just because there are some twinkies doesn’t mean all food is a twinky and I’m definitly not a twinky eater. And really, even if there are some twinkies out there, that doesn’t mean I should do anything about it. After all, I’m not a twinky eater. The real problem is those anti-Twinky advocates and protestors. They are the real twinkey eaters and if only they’d shut up about twinkies, maybe we could finally live in a world without twinkies… In summary, twinkies don’t exist.
4 Hand Lettering books I’ve bought and found useful. The first is the best in my opinion.
Not to speak is to speak.
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I refuse to stay silent and I choose to act. I don’t have a perfect plan but I can start. I’m volunteering for a local refugee group, I’ve ordered “so you want to talk about race” and I’m looking at some other measures.
I’m also sorry for times even within the last year where I haven’t challenged racist comments. I stayed safe within my privilege while others suffer from these ideas.
🔗 Expert sandwich tips that will change your lunches for ever - BBC Food
🔗 Expert sandwich tips that will change your lunches for ever - BBC Food
Got to try some of these!
So we almost had a drive in with a lorry this morning. He saw us on the main road and for some unknown reason decided to drive right out in front of us. Luckily I had time to stop (although I turned off the road to avoid any contact).
How’s your morning?
Yesterday I thought it was Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at different points of the day…so that’s a good sign.
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life — the life God is sending one day by day.”
- C.S. Lewis
I wonder how many memes I could get out of this political crisis.
I made another meme. British Politics, the gift that keeps on giving.
Asking for a friend (literally), is it possible to use the Apple Watch cellular without a phone?
“Toilet paper hoarders” would be a good punk band name. Yes, this idea is a month or two too late.
May Micro 📖 recommendation: On Writing Well
This was the most influencial book on my writing. The basic message is to focus on clarity to communicate your ideas more effectively.
Get at your local indie bookshop
Great focused device / Great distraction device
The iPad is both a great focusing device — it heavily favours one app at a time — and a great distraction device — the perfect couch device with all those games, comics, videos, and more.
Increasingly, I find that the later is interfearing with the former.
Maybe I need a work iPad and a couch iPad.* *my wife would not agree.
May Micro 📖 Challange: How to think by @ayjay
I went a bit meta in recommending a book by a micro blogger. A really great read on how to (at least try to) think better. Shop your local indie bookstore