tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265179762011-04-21T21:37:30.916-07:00One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the inner structure of what he's playing - that's the way it works in the writing of a novel. You pick up the beat. ~ Robert StoneSCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26517976.post-1147376466208286922007-05-11T12:33:00.000-07:002006-05-11T12:45:47.806-07:00<div align="center">.<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/625/1898/400/safe-space-gif.gif" border="0" /><span style="color:#cc33cc;"></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><strong>FEEL FREE</strong> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">- Post your works of art, stories, poems based on the challenge.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">- Keep online work to 250 words max</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">- This is a "SAFE" Space to get the creative juices flowing.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">- No competition or critiquing of work on line. This will be viewed as unwanted censoring of the creative FLOW.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">- Offers to edit or help privately with rewrites may be made and solicited between members / users of our blog.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#cc33cc;">WARNING: Works that are considered unsuitable for children will be taken off the blog by the sole discretion of the Regional Advisor.</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26517976-114737646620828692?l=scbwi-caribbeansouth-notmiss.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26517976.post-1145481699978512152006-04-19T14:21:00.000-07:002006-05-11T12:47:27.226-07:00<div align="center">. </div><div align="center">.<img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/625/1898/400/12310004.jpg" border="0" /><span style="color:#cc33cc;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:#3333ff;">THE DAFFODILS - Cafe Moka (Carole Anne Ferris)</span><br /></span>.<br /><br /></span><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Get writing, get rhyming.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Paint, draw, colour.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Then post your creations on this Blog for other members to enjoy.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">This month's theme comes from a friend, Trini-English photographer Carole Anne Ferris.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">She snapped this recently during her Spring time visit to the U.K.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:130%;color:#cc33cc;"><strong>The challenge:</strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">Create something truly Caribbean using the 'foreign' Daffodil photo as a springboard for inspiration.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">If you're stumped try this line out to get you going:</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.<br /><span style="color:#3333ff;"><em>I have never seen the daffodils. </em></span></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;"><span style="color:#3333ff;"><em>From where I sit the pouiis bloom. Yellow here, yellow there ......</em></span> </span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#cc33cc;">.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color:#6600cc;">Joanne Gail Johnson</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#6633ff;"><strong>(Regional Advisor SCBWI Caribbean South)</strong></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>www.caribbeanchildren.com</strong></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26517976-114548169997851215?l=scbwi-caribbeansouth-notmiss.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>SCBWI Caribbean Southhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04480979943906303970noreply@blogger.com0