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Absence Update and Poll

15 January 2011

I know, I know, once again I have not been updating as often as I should. I have tons of excuses, from the holidays, to copywriting projects that went on forever, to novel revision (HTRYN RULES!), but really I should just make the time. And I will. In the meantime, I have some writing plans [...]

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Picture Prompts: Peaceful

5 August 2009

Ever since first coming across creative writing prompts, picture prompts have always been my favorite. There is just so much creative potential in them and you are not limited by being given a set of words thought up by someone else to work with. Not that words are not a great way to jump-start a [...]

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Picture Prompts: Tied Off

24 July 2009

Time again for another lovely picture writing prompt. Somehow these seem to me to be the least invasive of the different creative writing prompts in the sense that they don’t impose any words to work with, merely an image. The idea here is to look at the picture and imagine the story behind it, the [...]

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Picture Prompts: Crossroads

15 July 2009

Today we have the ever popular creative writing prompts in the form of pictures. The idea behind these picture writing prompts is that you, the writer, are shown a picture and that is supposed to inspire you to write a story, poem, piece of flash fiction, or whatever other form of creative writing that you [...]

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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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