Today’s writing prompt – “Don Charisma’s Sneaky Black Box”
If you didn’t get what it was about yesterday – spontaneity and creativity. Don’t think about it – do it, be it, feel it, live it, f**k it … F**K thinking about it too much. Yesterday’s prompt is exactly what the most creative and spontaneous people use – NOTHING, NADA, no prompt at all. Imagination is what counts 🙂
So … Write about it. Publish it. Job Done … Or not, up to you !
Why? Because 99.99% of what most people write/draw/photograph/design won’t be on Freshly Pressed or go viral … So have fun, write stuff that amuses you and extends your writing abilities. Or draw, paint, photograph, design, whatever “floats your boat”. As soon as we start to try to be original, funny and perfect, guess what, spontaneity and creativity fly out the window. I heard it recently described as “forcing the funny” …
What do I know ? I’m not a writer or an artist … A JK Rowling or A Mozart or A Picasso … dreamer is more likely …
Do I care ? NO … I just get on with doing the best I can, have fun making mistakes, and laugh at myself when I’ve average, and laugh even more when I’m below average … I’m sure you guys have a good laugh when I do dumb stuff or produce crap …
“That nutty Don Charisma’s at it again, he’s posted a black box as a writing prompt, surely that imbecile has lost his mind … doesn’t he know a writing prompt actually has to give me an idea ? … funny though, I laughed and laughed when I told Tamika and everyone on facebook … I’ve unfollowed him, dopey fool, there are some much better ‘serious’ writing blogs”
Cheers
Don Charisma
Don Charisma 
Wow! love this black box. This is very inspiring to me. Love your blogging. Now I am going to find my favorite colors that live in that black box. Thanks again!
Perfect, you understood 🙂
This is wonderful! I’m laughing so hard! Good work. If you can’t find something around you to write (compose, paint, dance) about, then you might take a good look at the black box – and then think outside of it!
Thanks Sharon … who knew !
LoL, I needed something like this today.
Great … so the black box is working it’s magic 😉
Well, no magic really, just what came to mind when I read your post….”I already made a black box”. I actually threw it away that day, too much negativity I suppose, except for the “Y” sprouting branches. Maybe that is how big things disappear…the black spreads like fog and covers up any evidence of who we are or our whereabouts. Hmm….
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Taking “tabula rasa” literally? 🙂
LOL And you’d suggest ?
I think a black box is totally creative, do you have any idea what can come from black box?
Anything….. 🙂
For sure hun, you’ve got it !
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Writing Prompt: a black box? Try it. Curious… 😉
Thanks for the reblog Luna, and your excellent writing 🙂
Thank you 🙂 Still working on the writing stuff*, so according to me it’s still crap! But trying-working hard on it 🙂
Don’t worry hun, all my writing is crap according to me … I just pretend it’s good and sometimes people believe me LOL
hahah, maybe I should try that too…lol hmmm *puts on thinking cap* 😉
Main thing is to be trying, experimenting etc, that’s how we improve … I’m forever trying out new stuff on the blog, some works some doesn’t … WordPress is largely very tolerant and supportive in my experience so a good place to be encouraged 🙂
Yes, I agree 🙂
so we’re all happy then ?
lol Yes. But I try to never get to stuck on happy, ’tis relative. Like the moon stuck in earth’s orbit; sometimes it’s a spectacular view from earth. But from another perspective, it’s just a rock in a universe full of stuff* 🙂
I wax and wane with however the tide of “happy” pulls me; dictated by that rock. Wait, doesn’t everyone…? 🙂
Perspectives and perceptions, some aren’t happy for one reason and another … generally I’m happy enough, but as you say, life waxes and wanes … to embrace that is probably a big part of happiness 🙂
Very wise and very true. *gets taken out by a fierce undertow* ACK! 😀
LOL, only on Mondays … the rest of the week I’m a complete imbecile … I have to write all my posts in one day … kidding … obviously !
Ahahah 😀 Yes, it’s one heck of: dies lunae/lunedi/lunes/lundi/Lunar Monday 🙂
… so you’re the Monday girl ? … sorry I didn’t fully understand, either I’m trying to be far too clever or I’m a complete moron … either is possible, as it’s passed midnight here into tuesday !
Oh right, Asia. Are you an ex-pat in Thailand or native? Yeah, still Monday here 🙂 What’s the time difference, like 12 hrs.??
I’m from UK, so not a native … some people reckon I’m an ex-pat, so I guess that’s about right … time difference US to Thailand is around 12 hours, depends on where in US, because it covers 4 hours worth of time zones !
Ahh. Which part of the UK? My dad was British, from Kent/South 🙂
From London really, that’s my home now … I have relatives on my dad’s side from Kent, quite like kent as a place to live, it tends to be warm and flat and they have some seaside there too 😉
They do 😀 I wonder if they still have that odd tunnel/aquarium thing on the seaside at Hastings?? Hmm…Hafta look it up 🙂
That’s a new one on me so I’d have to look it up too … unless you’re talking about the Eurostar train that goes to france ?
I dunno. It’s been so long. Maybe I’m thinking of another small-ish Kent seaside town…Hmm. I know it had a walk-through-tunnel aquarium thingie in it. An ex-English BF (and very lovely man) took me and my brother to see it. I twisted his arm to take me to that one because I wanted to “walk through fishes and sea water* :}
OK, so I’d have to look that one up too hun … like the twisting the arm bit, very persuasive 🙂
LOL! Love. 🙂 I like that black box. Void of light, color, basically any perceivable spectral things* Here’s my story response to this prompt: Black Box.
But really? We can have creative leeway? No specific prompt? Such a contrast from force-fed writing prompts; so novel…
I might have to imagine something very spectacular about this onyx blip in space; this black hole; an abyss with its narrowness and lack of visual diversity. But it’s just as it appears, glaring back at me from my TFT-LCD screen. Or is it…?
Perhaps it’s just one of many perfect squares, along the most ominous binary that winds its way through this highway of what we refer to as the “Internets”…The core. The heart. That beating drum of a pulse dictating the path of a billion rhythmic human voices connecting*…But wait, maybe I just have? 😉
Lovely Luna, I really like that, you’re writing I enjoy, I connect with … You’re welcome to post on your own blog and link, if you like 🙂
Warm regards
Don
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I personally love the idea of the black box writing prompt. I’ve gotten several ideas from it already, just haven’t written one yet.
doh … but I guess up to you, write it, don’t write it … actually something I love about my imagination, I don’t have to do/write/create everything that appears on the Don Charisma canvass !
The mind’s canvass. That in itself is inspiring.
For sure, doesn’t sound like you need Don Charisma’s writing prompt, you should be writing them for me !
That is how i always write , i just sit down and start typing.
… you’re a lady after my own heart 🙂
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Thanks for the reblog 🙂
Is that a real comment you received??
Nah, just having fun hun … usually critics are worse than that !
Aha…
Don, as a working method I agree with you but, on here, we’re NOT ‘living it’, ‘doing it’ ‘feeling it’ we’re TALKING about these things and verbal statements require a verbal response, which entails consideration (thinking). My advice (after 74 years of making mistakes): don’t play to the gallery, Don. I can sense you’re worth more than that.
Thanks John, useful, I’ll give it some thought 🙂
just got back from my daily constitutional sunset beach walk, always clears the backlog 🙂 … thanks for your submission to my writing prompt, I’m very grateful because it’s given me a few days worth of prompts and opinion posts … you are a very thought provoking writer … a novel approach at teaching the teacher, but whatever works – frankly in an air of politeness and good humour, either or for me …
Sometimes I blog to the gallery, sometimes the gallery blogs to me, sometimes I blog to myself, it’s all the same to me, a learning and creative process … I have my goals and dreams, and they are what drives what I do, not my audience.
For the next writing prompt, please can I ask you to follow etiquette and post your submission on your blog … you’re welcome to send me the link as others have done, sometimes I reblog, comment and like, at my discretion.
Warm regards
Don Charisma
Ok , I couldn’t resist 🙂 http://wp.me/s2GFqd-lbb
Seen it, liked it, commented on it, reblog’ed it … did I miss anything ?
You never miss Don Charisma ;))
LOL, well almost hun … you are certainly a queen of charm yourself !
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Can the black box be a black hole in disguise, a portable Stargate.. Oh yes there are possibilities with this one!
LOL … whatever you want, the possibilities are almost endless 🙂 or … anything is possible with Charisma LOL