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Restriction does not breed creativity. that's all you. restriction helps focus or inspire the creative energy you're already filled to the brim with.
In some cases, when you're uninspired, aimless, or overwhelmed by the 'I don't even know where to start feeling: prompts can help focus your creative energy.
Old zine and magazine prompts are published in the issue.
July Prompts
1) what's so special about july?
2) the perks of....
3) public memory
4) what can your country do for you?
5) subtle gestures
6) warm honey
7) leaking emotions
8) petrol station
9) teenage alien blues
10) daydreaming
11) blanket attachment syndrome
12) bath water
13) muddy waters
14) voiceover
15) citrus
16) mid-july still queer
17) cold morning air, warm breath
18) soothing motion
19) good drunk
20) breathing technique
21) for the love getting lost
22) the cusp of oscillation / oscillation
23) when the lion wakes, there is uproar
24) coolhand
25) place an object in a location it doesn't belong
26) dressing room feelings
27) me in 27 july '22
28) insist upon the right to simply exist
29) dormant under the earth
30) ubuthongo (tr: drowsiness, sleepiness)
31) reflections/no, but is july a filler month?
August Prompts
1. She knows
2. small victory
3. putting on the armour
4. it's time i open my eyes
5. burning memories for a dream
6. Alter ego
7. oops
8. a life worth fighting for
9. Womexn! just Womexn
10. can you hear me now?
11. raised to fight
12. i want to see the world
13. im disparate not desperate
14. something's missing
15. prune the garden
16. speedwalk
17. shoes
18. you made us change
19. glamorous
20. mother nature's bitch
21. all of them dreams
22. stare 'em right in the eyes and give it a go
23. whom i want to be
24. its starting to feel like it did before
25. spark
26. broking habits
27. bite down
28. bubblegum
29. meet cute
30. I'll be seeing you
31. bird song
September Prompts
1. clean air
2. spring fog
3. washroom floor
4. cereal milk
5. the street you grew up on
6. consciousness
7. steel drums
8. caught a vibe
9. trying to stay alive
10. crystal vision
11. i'll be safe for you
12. how to be a human being
13. outside
14. sweet pollen
15. clean laundry
16. wishing well
17. easy violence
18. rag-tag team of misfits
19. award-winning
20. petals of armour
21. cardigan weather
22. this will be home
23. underwater reverb
24. seize the moment
25. swimming pool
26. get down
27. besides the world ending
28. first kiss
29. eyesight
30. dread approaching
October Prompts
1. lil' spooky
2. shivers
3. silk
4. low hanging fruit
5. melodrama
6. wind
7. like ice tea
8. everything has a price
9. i'm not buying that ticket
10. the squad
11. show up for yourself
12. the girl child
13. lucky number
14. sugar joints
15. 20/20
16. love letters to ghosts
17. Rural woman
18. spinal cord
19. the empire has no morals!
20. bite marks
21. what the trees saw
22. brittle bones
23. chlorophyll, chlorine and chloroform
24. we both keep the receipts
25.hospital pamphlets
26. shouldn't we be in the room where it happens?
27. are you the spide, the web, or the fly?
28. Sound and Lightening
29. paralysis
30. suspicious creatures
31. enchanted and wicked
32. and it crawled out of the woodwork
1. a nights drive
2. do you remember?
3. i hate the winter
4. acid green
5. living in a fever dream
6. hot sweat
7. the feminine urge
8. flashing lights
9. missed flights
10. salt coated lips
11. phases
12. our bodies were on
fire, electrified
13. leather jacket
14. cigarette buds
15. burnt joints
16. the sun and its glow
17. growth
18. cherry picking
19. the music is keeping us alive
20. perfect bodies
21. absorption
22. my feet are aching
23. what’s on your mind?
24. run away with me?
25. love is in the air but so is CO2
26. skinny dipping
27. ice-cold pools
28. melted ice cream
29. sticky fingers
30. my lungs are filled with ash
31. new champaign
