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The tale of the mustachioed man

Part four from last time: Wolf walked on. Just then, he got very hungry. He wondered if he would feel hungry while sleeping. Abruptly, he woke up. He walked into the kitchen, where his mother was weeping over an onion. Or maybe something else??? prompts: skeletal, lesson, vacant, award “I had a nightmare last night,” […]

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Fun creative writing exercise

Today, I decided to model a creative writing exercise, designed to combat the infamouse writer’s block. So, I used a random word generator to come up with eight disparate words. Here are my words: entice, bribe, soothe, tawdry, furious, ice-cream, glasses, cake In this exercise, there will be a time limit of about 10 to

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The tale of the mustachioed man

Part three  Wolf felt cold and apprehensive. “I will go and look for my bear friend. He might be named Bearnacle now. I will leave in the morning.” “Please be careful. It’s very dangerous,” said Wolf’s mother. Just then, a cold wind blew fiercely, and mother and son went into the house. Wolf fell into

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The Tale of the mustachioed man

Part two Prompts for day eight through fourteen of Inktober are: reckless, heavy, sweep, sting, shredded, drink, and trunk. Where the story left off: Wolf gave his mother a special pair of earrings, which startled her, but he didn’t know why. She didn’t speak about her nonreaction. After that, Wolf talked to his mother about

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The tale of the mustachioed man

part one The pictures here are from days one through seven of Inktober. The prompts are moustache, weave, crown, murky, deer, earring, and starfish. In the days when bears and humans spoke the same language, there was a boy who was best friends with a bear cub who was known only as Baby Bear. The

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Think ink year round!

Last October, I completed the one-month Inktober project for the first time in three tries. Drawing in ink every day for a month helped me to like the medium. And so, I decided to continue year round with Inktober’s second challenge, Inktober 52. It’s a really great idea and it’s been an opportunity to grow

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Alice explores AI’s silliness

It’s Silly Saturday, so I decided to share some silly AI images that I conjured up on my phone. Through the Facebook Messenger app, I can provide prompts, and AI will create an image for me. The goofier the prompt, the more absurd the image. So, I am sharing a few fun AI images with

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Q is for questions and quests

It’s Day fifty-six of the 100-day art challenge, and it’s week sixteen of Inktober 52. This week’s prompt is vista, and there was a stipulation to draw in black and white. No color, just ink. After leaving the place of long brick walls and silent ram people who walked in circles around the brick walls,

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randomness…

It snowed and was very cold most of the day. Not as cold as yesterday, but still a good day to stay inside. And paint. Now, if there were only something to paint. So, I started drawing random lines and thought that was fun. And slowly, little by little, I added color to the spaces

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tick tock tick tock goes the clock

After I completed the Inktober project in October for the first time, I realized that I really liked drawing with ink. Okay, technically, I’m drawing with a pencil and am inking it in afterwards. But still, that’s considered acceptable, according to the people who run Inktober. Early in October, I had started getting the Inktober

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