99 Days Remain in 2024
A Question and an Image to Spark Creativity #last100days2024 project
Welcome to my #last100dayproject!
There are 99 days left in 2024.
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For the last 100 days of 2024, I invite you to join me and experiment with ideas for the remaining days to highlight this time and to not let it slip away.
My project started as a question and a photo.
You are welcome to use my project as inspiration or to create your own.
I would love to hear about your progress on whatever project you want to begin!
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Process Update from Me:
I am reading and loving Cacophony of Bone by Kerri nà Dochartaigh. One of my regular practices is to respond to my reading in my morning notebook pages. On pages 63-64 in my hardback copy from the library there are her thoughts about objects in our lives. She asks her own questions about them and what they mean and how we interact with them. It struck me like a hot stick and I wrote into her ideas in relation to my project. I also am examining dream objects and what messages my subconscious are trying to tell me. (Laundry lint traps and pumpkins were prevalent last night. )
An echo from a Writing in the Dark class came forward while I was reading too. I made notes on my notecard bookmark and explored them more in my notebook. It is a combination of words that do not go together, except in my mind. It is one of those ideas that keeps coming to the surface but you aren’t quite sure what it means. I am going to take these two objects and explore them. I added these two words as a tarot case study for my daily pull as well.
I do not want to solely focus on memoir like writing these 100 days so I am thinking about what emerges for characters I create as well.
Today’s question: What scent evokes a story?
Today’s image:
**NOTE**
I do not share drafts of work online because most publications considered this published. You are more than welcome to share your piece in the comments, an excerpt or an update.
I hope for the comments to be a community for us to share these wins.
A little more about me: Tammy L. Evans is a writer, teacher, and coach living in a tiny house on a peninsula with her husband and adventure cat. Her location device is her loud laugh. She is working on a non-fiction book about how to submit and publish your first pieces. She is the creator and host of THE BRADBURY TRIO COURSE. Her poetry has been published in The Storyteller, FoxGlove Journal, Story Hall, Blue Insights, The Partnered Pen, and others. Her fiction has been published in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Clover and White, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
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The scent of cinnamon always reminds me of milk tarts and spicy jaw breakers. I remember buying the red jaw breakers in packs of 3 in high school. I never had the patience to keep the jaw breaker in my mouth until it dissolved into the small piece of treasured chewing gum in the middle. I always tried to bite through the hard cinnamon flavored candy outside to get to the gum inside. Milk tart with a sprinkle of cinnamon across the top is just edible art for me. Of all the South African food I miss, it's the traditional milk tart I miss the most. There are milk tart products in Taiwan, but they don't taste quite the same.