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Many thanks and delicious cocktails to all the participants for this week's challenge! Here are the submissions we received:
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...and we also received Moonlight Warrior by MariaBeloArt, which doesn't technically count because the challenge called for a visual piece and not a written one. However, we at The Artery have a soft spot for misguided effort, so we've included it anyway!
It was fantastic to see so many poets leaping into the breach and trying something new, no matter how timid they may have been about their actual artistic skills. I can tell you it's hard! So a great deal of love goes out to them.
The Artery Database And Chatroom
Get chatting in #artery today!
Bowing to popular pressure (or at least the pesterings of a few particular devotees) the Artery chatroom is now up and running. To celebrate it, we'll be giving out subscriptions at random over the next few days to visitors - particularly if they say something especially intelligent or make us giggle!
The first edition of the Artery Database is up and can be found here. Take a stroll and find that special someone - in a purely creative sense, of course! And if you're interested in adding yourself to the database, just supply us with your name, your particular skills and what you'd like to be involved with and we'll include you in the next edition.
This Week's Challenge - brought to you by zebrazebrazebra!
Last week we had a fantastic challenge which involved the themes of birth and rebirth. But no artist can remain at the birth level forever - sooner or later we have to work with our own innate skills and develop them into something brighter. With that in mind, here's this week's challenge!
Basic Motor Skills
This challenge comes in three stages, and is for written submissions only. However, it's designed for all artists to participate. It doesn't matter if you think you're a dreadful poet - the rest of us know you're wrong. And the skills you learn here could be useful in your own discipline, as well!
1) Get yourself a piece of paper and a pen, and write down the first five words that come into your head. Right now. Without even thinking about it.
2) Done that? Now, fetch yourself a timer of some sort, and set it for ten (10) minutes. In these ten minutes you're going to write yourself what's called a stream-of-consciousness poem, using the five words you started with as a basis.
A stream-of-consciousness poem, for those who don't know, is where you simply write what comes into your head without considering it or revising on the way. It's possible to write a stream-of-consciousness poem in some sort of structure, but generally they're a bit of a ramble. That's okay. You'll need that extra material later on.
3) Time for a break! Get yourself a snack - you deserve it. When you get back, set your timer for ten (10) minutes again. This time, you're going to take your stream-of-consciousness and revise it into a finished poem. Cut words, add words, even remove the five you started with - it's up to you, as long as you're happy with the finished product.
As soon as the ten minutes are up, it's pens down. Now's the fun bit - post all three stages here on dA. Let us see the development of your motor skills from start to finish, from nothing more than five words to a completed piece. And then go and find out how other people developed, too!
Deadline for submissions: 5th of February 11PM GMT
Next week - a competition for artist/writer collaborations brought to you by both zebrazebrazebra and maxine!
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...and we also received Moonlight Warrior by MariaBeloArt, which doesn't technically count because the challenge called for a visual piece and not a written one. However, we at The Artery have a soft spot for misguided effort, so we've included it anyway!
It was fantastic to see so many poets leaping into the breach and trying something new, no matter how timid they may have been about their actual artistic skills. I can tell you it's hard! So a great deal of love goes out to them.
The Artery Database And Chatroom
Get chatting in #artery today! Bowing to popular pressure (or at least the pesterings of a few particular devotees) the Artery chatroom is now up and running. To celebrate it, we'll be giving out subscriptions at random over the next few days to visitors - particularly if they say something especially intelligent or make us giggle!
The first edition of the Artery Database is up and can be found here. Take a stroll and find that special someone - in a purely creative sense, of course! And if you're interested in adding yourself to the database, just supply us with your name, your particular skills and what you'd like to be involved with and we'll include you in the next edition.
This Week's Challenge - brought to you by zebrazebrazebra!
Last week we had a fantastic challenge which involved the themes of birth and rebirth. But no artist can remain at the birth level forever - sooner or later we have to work with our own innate skills and develop them into something brighter. With that in mind, here's this week's challenge!
Basic Motor Skills
This challenge comes in three stages, and is for written submissions only. However, it's designed for all artists to participate. It doesn't matter if you think you're a dreadful poet - the rest of us know you're wrong. And the skills you learn here could be useful in your own discipline, as well!
1) Get yourself a piece of paper and a pen, and write down the first five words that come into your head. Right now. Without even thinking about it.
2) Done that? Now, fetch yourself a timer of some sort, and set it for ten (10) minutes. In these ten minutes you're going to write yourself what's called a stream-of-consciousness poem, using the five words you started with as a basis.
A stream-of-consciousness poem, for those who don't know, is where you simply write what comes into your head without considering it or revising on the way. It's possible to write a stream-of-consciousness poem in some sort of structure, but generally they're a bit of a ramble. That's okay. You'll need that extra material later on.
3) Time for a break! Get yourself a snack - you deserve it. When you get back, set your timer for ten (10) minutes again. This time, you're going to take your stream-of-consciousness and revise it into a finished poem. Cut words, add words, even remove the five you started with - it's up to you, as long as you're happy with the finished product.
As soon as the ten minutes are up, it's pens down. Now's the fun bit - post all three stages here on dA. Let us see the development of your motor skills from start to finish, from nothing more than five words to a completed piece. And then go and find out how other people developed, too!
Deadline for submissions: 5th of February 11PM GMT
Next week - a competition for artist/writer collaborations brought to you by both zebrazebrazebra and maxine!
A Matter Of Catching Up.
Gosh. So I guess I'm back. I posted a poem and everything.
Since I was gone, bearing in mind that I don't really remember when I left, I have:
Lived in San Francisco for four years;Been diagnosed with twelve chronic illnesses;Spent a year and a half bedbound;Got married, a bit;Reclaimed my autism (friends, I am autistic as heck);Entered a literary comic erotic fanfiction contest;Started a project called Share My Wonder;
Wrote a lot, but not nearly enough.
What have you been up to while I was gone? What's been happening around deviantART that I missed? What do you want to ask me about the years we spent apart? I just want to get to know yo
Devious Journal Entry
Gosh. Who's around here these days who I remember?
A Teachable Dicking
Last night I dreamt of a king who had journeyed far and wide, whose army had been decimated in battle, who was sick and weary of the world. Just when he thought all hope was lost, he came across the court of a foreign kingdom. They were suspicious of him—and for added flavour, the dream was very specific that they spoke French—but they invited him to refresh himself with dancing and music and a rest in a feather bed. Later that night, of course, two women of the court visited him and proceeded to ramrod him to death.
At this point, it was time to offer feedback. I told the writer I thought the plot was solid, but there were a num
Birthdays, Bubbles and Beauty
Talk to me about America. The green rind of the hills, the desert of the mind. The bubbles blown across Haight and Masonic by a hippy in her prime. Talk to me about the coffee shops, the flowers pushing themselves out of the earth in spring, the heart of things, the moles. Talk to me about dogs in the street and hobos in the park, the breathless rest, the soul. Tell me what it's like to land in San Francisco, the folk drumming of the engine coming to a stop and the tiny crumb you call yourself pushed out into the world. Tell me and I'll tell you how it feels to find a home in these tiny houses, to piece together a neighbourhood out of scraps
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Emily was right, I should have done this.