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Picture Prompts: The Secret House

6 July 2009

We start off this new week (of doing creative writing exercises as often as possible) with another picture writing prompt. Now, the idea with these kind of creative writing exercises is that the picture shown is supposed to inspire you to write, be it a short story, a poem or even a novel. Quite possibly, [...]

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Picture Prompts: In the Rain

26 June 2009

It is once again time for a picture to spark a story in our imagination and let us create, let us express ourselves and all that good stuff. The main idea behind picture writing prompts is that one is shown an image and that image is supposed to inspire us to write a story or [...]

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Picture Prompts: Nature Smiling

17 June 2009

Today we have picture prompts as creative writing prompts since they do seem to be everyone’s favorite. And why shouldn’t they be? There is just something very creative and inspiring about being given pictures. In fact some writers “see” the stories they want to write as though watching a movie, as opposed to others who [...]

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Picture Prompts: The Cottage

12 June 2009

There’s already been a picture prompt this week, I know, but I really love these so I decided to make it Friday’s creative writing exercise as well. The idea behind the picture writing prompts creative writing exercise is to be shown a picture of whatever, pretty much, and then allow that image to inspire a [...]

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Picture Prompts: The Meadow

10 June 2009

Today it is time for picture prompts, for letting a picture tell us a story. The idea behind using picture as creative writing prompts is that you are shown a picture or a photo and you must look at it until a story begins to form in your mind. Usually it does not take very [...]

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Picture Prompts: Wooden Bridge

1 June 2009

It’s time again for another picture writing prompt, since these do have the tendency to be the most popular and least restricting. Which is not to say that the random words, story starter sentences and the rest of the creative writing prompts found on this site are not terrific for getting us all to start [...]

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Picture Prompts: The Big House

21 May 2009

Aren’t picture writing prompts just the best? All you have to do is look at a photo for awhile and all of a sudden a story begins to unfold in your mind. You give the picture before you inhabitants, so to speak, and then continue to give those inhabitants lives, a past, a family, wished, [...]

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Picture Prompts: Something’s in the Air

13 May 2009

Hopefully you have been doing your creative writing exercises daily, or at least every other day, or at least a couple of times per week, or at least once a week…well, what I am trying to say is that you should get into the habit of writing almost everyday, no matter what kind of mood [...]

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Picture Prompts: The World Beyond the Edge

5 May 2009

It’s that time again. Time for letting pictures tell a story or, put simply, it’s picture prompts day. So look at the picture carefully and let it speak to you, let it paint a character, a plot, an event, a city, town, village, country, … and then sit down and write the story of it, [...]

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Picture Prompts: The Stairs to Somewhere

23 April 2009

This week’s installment of picture prompts features another fun photo for you to divine a story from. So just like last time, look at the picture and try to imagine a story behind it. After you are comfortable that there is a story it out. And write for at least 15 minutes. Are you ready?

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