Crimson’s Creative Challenge #75

Posted on April 15, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#75

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

The photo was taken at Cromer, on the North Norfolk Coast in July last year

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Stop Press: The Spinner’s News

Posted on April 14, 2020 by crispina kemp

Okay, so I’ve been sitting on this for a week, so it’s not really “Stop Press” news. But anyway…

Last Tuesday the books I had ordered from Amazon arrived. The full set of The Spinner’s Game

LOOK WHAT WAS ON THE AMAZON VAN!!!!

These are my gift to Shen, my daughter, whose ear for the past two years has been thoroughly bent and assaulted by me talking about the Spinner, and Kerrid, and the plot, and the edits and… you get the picture. Moreover, she’s been there since the earliest conception of the Spinner.

But before I let the books slip through my hands, I took some photos (see below).

And now for the second news item

UK’s Writing Magazine has chosen The Spinner’s Child to promote on their Writer’s Online site. O Yay! See it here!!!

And finally, Amazon now features a 5-star review of The Spinner’s Child

Screen capture of Amazon review (excerpt). My many thanks to fellow blogger H.R.R. Gorman

The Spinner’s Game… available from Amazon in paperback and Kindle

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Bob the Footpad

Posted on April 13, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by loulou nash on pixabay

Bob the Nomad
Became a footpad
Ventured far for he hadn’t a home
Alas, poor Bob, forever to roam

Bob the Nomad
They claimed him a rough cad
A ruffler of skirts, a wild cat hadn’t a backbone
Such behaviour the law couldn’t condone

Bob the Nomad
With his alibi ironclad
Denied his involvement, had his movements restricted
No Fixed Abode Bob, now of murder charged and convicted

68 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Challenge: Nomad

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Sunday Picture Post: Oxlips and Bishies

Posted on April 12, 2020 by crispina kemp

Oxlips: April 2017

Oxlips, the epitome of an Easter Weekend

Ladybird: April 2017

In Norfolk the Ladybird is better known as Bishy Barny Bee. The origin of the name remains disputed. Does it come from Bishop of St Barnabus (though where is this St Barnabus church?) or from Bishop Barnabus (or Barnaby?), although none is known of that name. Then again, perhaps it has an entirely different origin.

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Beware those low flying balls

Posted on April 11, 2020 by crispina kemp

4th April 2019

Walking the green lanes of Norfolk I came upon this. I like unusual signage, and so I snapped it. Which is fortunate, for now I can use it for…

Read Me, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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A Beta Reader’s Desk – Crispina Kemp’s The Spinner’s Game Series — Janthina Images – Photo Journal

Posted on April 10, 2020 by crispina kemp

♦ I have enjoyed the storytelling of Crispina Kemp for a few years which she has so generously shared with us on her WordPress site. The world of her Feast Fables and Asaric Tales has been shaped and polished into a five book series called The Spinner’s Game. She has woven a tapestry of […]

via A Beta Reader’s Desk – Crispina Kemp’s The Spinner’s Game Series — Janthina Images – Photo Journal

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CCC#74: Tall Towers

Posted on April 9, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #74

The plague hit hard, the population halved in the first year, in the second year halved again. In the third year its source was found. It came from the ground, present in patches of contaminated soil.

Attempts to lift, remove and isolate the soil only resulted in a further spread and yet more deaths. Now we’re building tall towers to support our new housing… for those who survive.

No, I’ve no idea what these towers are intended for, found to the north of Yarmouth’s harbour. But they fascinated me.

And while I don’t usually mess with the photos, here I did add an ominous sky. Yea, well, the original was boring pale blue!

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #74

Posted on April 8, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#74

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

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My Turn to Turn, Turn, Turn

Posted on April 7, 2020 by crispina kemp

Last Tuesday I set a challenge. To find us a sing-along song to keep up our spirits during this current crisis. As an example, I posted WWI’s Greatest Hit, Pack Up Your Troubles.

There were fewer suggestions than I had hoped – see below. And I’ve yet to make mine. So here it is.

To Everything There is a Season, written by Pete Seegar in late 1950s, incorporating Ecclesiastics 3: 1-8

Dale suggested Bob Marley’s One Love

Susan Zutautas recommended Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World

And there was another, but it appears the blogger has deleted it.

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Grandma’s Wedding Cake

Posted on April 6, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by darkeyed on pixabay

Ellie tore the vines and grasses from the chest, opened it and dug deep to the bottom,
To pull out a small package, wrapped in a plane leaf, darkly brittle.
Black, the cube of hard pudding.
Yellow, the icing, leached from the marzepane.
Her grandma’s wedding cake, her keepsake.

49 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Keepsake

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