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Picture Writing Prompts: Behind the Tree

5 October 2009

Picture writing prompts, what a way to start the week. Creative writing prompts in the form of images are so terrific primarily because there are no predetermined words for you to work with. There is just an image, and that is all that stands between you and the story or poem you should be writing. [...]

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Picture Writing Prompts: The Homestead

25 September 2009

Well, it’s the end of the working week and as far as creative writing exercises go we are having picture writing prompts today. These are a lot of fun, since all you have to do is look at an image and just let your mind go in the sense that it is free to wander [...]

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Picture Writing Prompts: The Hazy Distance

14 September 2009

Today is Monday and the start of a new working week and what better way to make it just a little bit more productive than by doing some much needed creative writing exercises. Today’s writing exercise is in the form of a creative writing picture prompt. The idea behind this type of creative writing exercises [...]

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Picture Prompts: On a Boat

4 September 2009

A picture prompt writing exercise is a great way to get some writing done at the end of the working week, wouldn’t you agree? The idea behind this type of creative writing exercise is to let a picture, an image inspire you to write a story, poem, flash or any other piece of writing you [...]

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Picture Prompts: Bird on a Wire

26 August 2009

Picture writing prompts are a great way to get some writing exercises done when you don’t want to be bothered by list of words, phrases or the confines of a single given sentence. The idea behind these type of creative writing prompts is that the picture you see is somehow, in some way supposed to [...]

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Picture Prompts: Rooftops

14 August 2009

It is once again time for the very inspiring picture writing prompts. Creative writing prompts of this type are an incredibly useful tool when in accessing the subconscious, which is, as you probably already know, where the stories come from. The picture acts as a sort of link between the conscious and the unconscious mind [...]

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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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