I am DS 106, therefore I create. http://flic.kr/p/priZbE

The Meeting in the Forest http://flic.kr/p/q5HxyH Daily Create was to draw a childhood memory.

I’ve been working on a draft cover for my third novel, The Weaver’s Light. It’s fantasy, like my others, but not  young adult (though really, as far as I can tell, the only thing making a book “YA” is if the hero/ heroine is a young adult). Anyway, I’m asking for input again to help me perfect this masterpiece […]

Portrait of Peter and His Books http://flic.kr/p/qmtWba Portrait of Peter and His Books

Angels Heard on High #merrymosaic

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Today’s Daily Create gave us a blank stone only and prompted: “On this very old stone somebody did write something very important, a prayer, a memo, a song? What must be written on your stone stele?”

Mine says a slight variation on Rumi: “Say of me I was not bits of husk, or a puddle that freezes overnight or a comb that cracks when you use it, or a pod crushed open on the ground. I was fine powder in a rough clay dish. I always knew what both worlds were worth…”

Today’s Daily Create gave us a blank stone only and prompted: “On this very old stone somebody did write something very important, a prayer, a memo, a song? What must be written on your stone stele?”

Mine says a slight variation on Rumi: “Say of me I was not bits of husk, or a puddle that freezes overnight or a comb that cracks when you use it, or a pod crushed open on the ground. I was fine powder in a rough clay dish. I always knew what both worlds were worth…”

The summer session of DS 106 at Lane Community College comes to an end. I am pretty pleased with it. I reached out to Keren Levine to help me get focused last spring when my mind was blank, and her determination that this should be FUN really led me to commit to the DS 106 website for the first time.

And even though mostly we used the blog aggregator and the Daily Create features, those two were enough to lead to more lessons in setting up a blog, Flickr, Haiku Deck, YouTube, Twitter, Google +, Facebook, Instagram, and iMovie. 

What I learned by having drop-in students is that it would actually be easy to set up next term’s eight week session as both a continuous class and a drop-in classroom.

I asked students today to make a list of five things they might blog about between now and the beginning of school:

1. My upcoming trip to Alaska!

2. interview with Charlie Johnson, host, nationally recognize artist and museum curator

3. Reflecting on my experience at NW School of Film this summer

4. The making of “Mickey’s Dream”

4. Creating a DST about DSTs for Innovation Abstracts publication

Not perfect, but friendship building and an excellent learning summer for me.

It’s a Flash Friday–150 words based on a photo prompt. I’m having fun forcing myself to write a something worth reading in so few words; makes me examine every single word to make sure I need it. I also like to be a bit perverse in these challenges–take a an angle on the photo that’s a little left of center, […]

Yvonne flopped back into the pillows, eyes closing before her head met the feathers, a groan escaping as she laid her hands on her belly. What the hell was this, ‘perimenopause’ (whatever that meant) or fibroids in her uterus? These cramps were like something from a Stephen King novel–she hurt from her lower ribs to […]

      “Mondays Finish the Story” A flash fiction challenge where a photo and the first sentence of a story are the prompt. Even during NaNo month I can find time to pound out 100-150 words, right? I sort of like that restriction, as I tend to be on the wordy side, and having someone force me […]

Clothing Optional http://flic.kr/p/pTL98U

A piece from my NaNoWriMo novel. Clir pulled the heavy leather gauntlet further up her arm, cursing. “That bird isn’t worth the wooden perch he roosts on!” Trainer Fugol raised her brow, but didn’t comment. Clir glared at the young besra sitting on her forearm. “Why must I continue to work with these inferior birds? […]

Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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Daily Create—a sketchquote for Amy

A little fun with today’s Daily Create where we were supposed to create the worst album cover. I don’t know if I succeeded. I kind of think the cover from Twisted SIster is worse. But that hair really takes me back… Tagged: ds106, silliness

This really is not Rudolph

Daily Create was to change up your pet. I decided it wouldn’t hurt to show my wings while changing my horse into a unicorn.

The Creative Process–what is this elusive affair? How do we catch it? How do we coax it to life when we have a wicked sinus headache and our beds are calling? If you know, please message me. But what, you ask, does this intro. have to do with my title? Gentle reader, it is an […]

A String of Banalities as High Art: A Warholian Antimovie

Morning Ride on My Unicorn http://flic.kr/p/pN5XWF Daily Create: Pick a pet and change it!

Today’s Daily Create was to remember the first words you wrote on the open web. I have no memory of that… I had a 12 pound laptap in 1989. I started teaching distance classes vie email in 1993. The internet came online for us in 1995. In 1996 I was teaching in Lane CC’s computer […]

Today’s Daily Create was a Mouse Meme, but I hate those stupid posters with block letters, so I subverted the assignment a bit and drew in Paper 53 then collaged in Bazaart.

Here is where I go, in my heart and mind, when I need a break from reality.

Today’s Daily Create was to draw a flag for the Country of Me. Pablo Neruda for President of my country!

Boy I’m on a roll here, posting things that take next to no work at all, yet are thoroughly entertaining for my readers, I’m sure! Just wanted to let you all know I won a contest where I had to use my vast analytical and interpretive skills, battling against giant minds like Rain Rain (see […]

It all started with the Daily Create, which challenged us to look in the mirror. I posted this picture of me doing a mirror selfie. In another country, Scotland, I believe, John Johnston picked it up on the Daily Create site (and by default Flickr), and he wrote an art critique of it: In it, […]

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If you’ve ever heard the phrase “less is more,” then this is the topic to dive into. ? “As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.” – Mark Twain I want to be clear before we begin; I am not against modifiers (adverbs and adjectives). I…

The Daily Create was to make a map of nearby sounds. I did some app smashing on this one. I began in Paper 53, thence to Bazaart, then DistressedFX to add birds, and then Perfectly Clear.

Really??  I just yanked the recent tape mess out of the trash.  What did I find?  Not sure - what do you see?

I really cannot say that this is experimental in the sense that I tested various techniques to come up with this image.  No, it is just "nature's stuff" partially submerged in an old Radio Flyer wagon, abandoned by my son many years ago.The rainwa...