As I have said, I'm now going to be posting challenges followed by the submissions in articles now. I was wondering if you guys had any challenge ideas for prose, photography and drawings. I already have some ideas for poetry, being that I do that all the time and am more familiar with it. If you guys have some ideas feel free to post them in comments. If I use your ideas I will credit you in the challenge article.

I'm probably going to remove fractals as a challenge for now, since so far nobody seems interested in doing them. If anyone's interested in doing the fractal challenges at all I'll post some. Also questioning the painting challenges, since those would probably take a bit longer of a time for people to do...it might be kind of silly to keep those in. Paintings have also been ignored for challenges by people.

So Prose, Photography and Drawing ideas?

Paintings and Fractals, should I keep them in?

Rules: [link]
Previous challenge journal: [link]
Previous submissions journal: [link] (see the pretty art!)

Submissions and Challenges from now on will be posted in ARTICLES!

Remember: You can do as many challenges as you want.

I will still add to the previous submissions entry until I post the next challenge journal (#16). So feel free to still do #14 and comment in that challenge journal for those.

Photography challenges:
1) Take a photo with bright warm colors (not neon) such as yellows, oranges or reds. Nothing should be centered.

2) Take a photo with cool colors such as blues or greens. One object must become the center of attention (without being completely centered) while the others become background.

Drawing challenges:
1) Draw a character with an extra appendage without making it stick out. (coloring is optional).

2) Draw a character with 2 objects that replaces 2 appendages. (coloring is optional)

Painting challenges:
1) Paint a surreal romantic scene that includes a mixture of both cool and warm colors.

2) Paint a conceptual piece that includes the colors yellow and green.

Fractal challenges:
1) Create a fractal piece that includes the colors green and red.

2) Create a rainbow fractal piece.

Poetry challenges:
1) Write a poem with a structure like this (each line can be as long as desired):

Vagrant _________
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Stung ___________
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Lost ____________
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_________________
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Vague ___________
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(Repeat third stanza)

2) Write a poem with a structure like this:

First stanza in haiku form:
Rain _________
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Second stanza:
Fall__________
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Third stanza in haiku form:
Lonely _______
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Fourth stanza:
_____________
_____________
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Prose challenges:
1) Write a surreal fantasy short story that INCLUDES 4 or more of these objects and/or words (tenses can be changed): scissors, orange, blue, desperate, lillies, agony, circle, shiver, rapid, cringe, knot, violet, blurr, listen and smudge.

And EXCLUDES ALL of these words (and any tenses (adjustment of the ending - ed, s, ing) relating to them): hatred, soul, heart, anger, happy, sad and mind.

It must NOT be in 1st person. 3 paragraph minimum.

2) Write one paragraph (5-7 sentences) that EXCLUDES ALL of these words (and any tenses (adjustment of the ending - ed, s, ing) relating to them): hatred, soul, heart, anger, happy, sad, love, romance and mind.

MUST be 1st person. Can be fiction or non-fiction. Must be about romance.

You can still join in the fun. (See this [link] ) If you want to still post a submission please do so in the other journal.

Here are some lovely submissions to share! (Just as a clarification. This is not a contest. This is for fun to share your art and discover new artists as well. ).

Photo submissions:

"umlaut" [link]

Drawing submissions:
None yet

Painting submissions:
None yet

Fractal submissions:
None yet

Prose submissions:

"F"k Buddies" (18+ only) [link]

Poetry submissions:
"Fallen" [link]

"The Birds" [link]

"Acetaminophen" [link]

"Grief: The Agonizing Ache" [link]

"Blood Poet" [link]

"Scent of You" [link]

By the way...

Unlike what I did before...since I'm now separating the journal of submissions and challenges I will from now on accept old submissions ...well reasonably so.

I would prefer not to have to accept submissions that are 10 challenges ago. Spamming people's inboxes with updated journals is just something I don't want to do.

REMEMBER: if you catch my 14,000th page view...I'll give you a feature.

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Update: I'm still open for more people's work. It'd be nice if more people would do the other challenges. Pretty please? Remember that you don't have to do them all and you can scroll down to read the type of challenge you want to do. You don't have to read through all the challenges (because what's the point of reading the ones you're not going to do?).

I am back with "Cartheinsane's connection" with not only poetry challenges, but prose challenges, photography challenges, fractal challenges, painting challenges and drawing challenges (painting and drawing can include digital). Granted, every time I post a connection I will not be able to post challenges for them all, but I will do my best! If you have any other types of art that you Think I should do feel free to suggest them.

IF the submissions become large enough...I will post submissions and challenges in separate posts the next time I update. Since the last connection didn't have very many posters...and I lost some of them by deleting one of my journal entries (which let you know the last challenge was extended...) I am not going to post the last submissions (but you can look AT THE COMMENTS to see them yourself if you wish). I think I deleted one of them on accident. So here's the ones that still remain. [link]
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And here are the rules if you've forgotten. The rules are in bold for ya.
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ON TO THE CHALLENGES! Feel free to do as many of the challenges as you like from as many categories as you like.

Photo, drawing and painting challenges:

1) Draw, paint or take a picture of 1 or more objects in your room that you think are the least used. Take them to...
A) Renew their beauty somehow.

and/or

B) Create a darkness about them. Make the objects evil/haunting.

2) Draw, paint or take a picture of an animal of some sort that rarely talked about or that doesn't get enough love (so pretty much dogs and cats are done quite a bit). This can include a type of bird that nobody thinks about or a completely different species rarely talked/thought about.

Fractal challenges:

1) Make a non-centered, non-symmetrical piece that's fairly transparent with 2 or more colors inspired by ...

A) An element (fire, water, air, earth or sky)
Or
B) A favorite object of yours.

Prose challenges:

1) Write an interpretation of the meaning one of your favorite poems/proses as though you know that it is the meaning. Please cite your source and give credit to the artist you're interpreting. This can be any prose/poem.

2) Write a short story that includes these objects: A red ball, a paper plate and stinky old shoes.

Poetry challenge:

1) Write a poem with a the following structure

(Each word that starts at the beginning of each line must be kept there. Each line represents a place where you can have whatever. Each line can be as long as you'd like, but of course be polite and don't go overboard. Capitalization can be adjusted how you would like.)

Grief ______________
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Decaying _____________
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Lovely _____________
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Forgotten __________
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____________________
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Repeat the first line
____________________
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So if you can look carefully, you can see there is 4 lines and 4 stanzas. The 3rd stanza is a verse you can put pretty much anything you want there.

BUT DO NOT use THESE words in this poem:

Sad, unhappy, depressed, happy, angry, or mad.

If you want to use similar words here are some suggested alternatives (of course, I recommend picking one that sounds best... and of course if you have alternatives of your own, feel free to use them. Feel free to adjust the tenses according to your needs as well.):

For Sad/unhappy/depressed: sorrowful, mournful, somber, drab, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, dejected, melancholy.

For happy: delighted, pleased, glad, joyous, joyful, blithe, cheerful, merry, contented, gay, blissful and satisfied.

For angry/mad: irate, incensed, enraged, infuriated, furious, provoked, irritated and wrathful.


PHEW! That took a lot of time to type up.

When you're done please to link your artwork in the comments. I'm not sure as how frequent I'll have these challenges. It depends upon if there's a good amount of people doing them. At least a week though.

I can't wait.

This is not a contest. This is for fun. This allows you to share your art, find new artists, find inspiration etc.

So here are the rules again.

I will try and post a challenge for you guys to do (next challenge would be posted the next week at the earliest, but more than likely longer) and you can comment/post it in the journal that the challenge is presented in.

THEN I will post another journal entry with the submissions. So there will be the challenge journal entries and the submission journal entries.

So it will look like THIS:

Challenge journal

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Comments: HERE'S MY ENTRY!!

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Submissions journal
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Comments: Whatever whatever. Awesome artwork! This is fun! etc. Whatever whatever. XD