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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 Door To Somewhere

29 April 2009

Today is again time for another one of those great creative writing prompts also known as picture prompts, or in other words picture prompts that help you write a short story, poem, flash fiction or anything else. The main goal of this creative writing exercise is to look at the picture and try to imagine [...]

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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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Picture Prompts: Pictures That Tell a Story

18 April 2009

Time for something a little different as far as creative writing prompts and exercises go:  a picture prompt to help you write a story.  The idea behind this writing exercise is to use the picture as inspiration for a story, which can ultimately be about anything  and not strictly related to the image in the [...]

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