They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well a good picture is, anyway.
I stumbled across a link on Twitter this morning that I just had to share it here. Thanks to @WritersRelief for this link: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/.
It’s a page on Flickr that shows nine interesting pictures from the last seven days. What a great tool for writing exercises! You don’t have to go out and find them yourself. Just go here and pick one.
So now you have no excuse. Go out and write 1,000 words about one of these pictures. Okay, maybe not a thousand words, but perhaps 20 minutes. Or a haiku (the suggestion from @WritersRelief this morning). And when you’re tired of them, click on the reload button and get nine more. Awesome!
~Doug McIntire
www.DougMcIntire.com
Showing posts with label writing prompts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing prompts. Show all posts
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Things I love to Hate
Sometimes its hard to find inspiration. Doug's prompts are awesome and always get the juices flowing, but while taking a creative writing class with Jeremy Shipp I got turned on to another way to stimulate ideas. What he had us do is for one exercise make a list of five things we love, then write a short passage incorporating those five things. Next we did the same thing but with five things we hate.
I know this sounds almost juvenile, but trust me. I absolutely LOVE the creepy story that emerged from the second exercise (I will be submitting it this week--cross your fingers). The possibilities are endless. You can keep making lists and using them to stimulate ideas. Plus, the more unusual the combination, the better the outcome!
Hope it helps. Happy Writing!
I know this sounds almost juvenile, but trust me. I absolutely LOVE the creepy story that emerged from the second exercise (I will be submitting it this week--cross your fingers). The possibilities are endless. You can keep making lists and using them to stimulate ideas. Plus, the more unusual the combination, the better the outcome!
Hope it helps. Happy Writing!
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Daily Writing Prompts
If you’re a follower of All Things Writing, you know that I put up writing prompts from time to time. I’m a big believer in writing exercises and the writing prompts are just something that stirs the imagination and gives you something to write about.
Well, rather than inconsistently adding writing prompts to this blog, I’ve decided that I’m going to put them on my website. I have two writing prompts for each day in February; a single word or phrase prompt and a longer prompt. The page is laid out in calendar form so it’s pretty easy to navigate.
And I plan to update the prompts each month, so if you’re looking for something to write about, check out My Writing Prompts at http://www.dougmcintire.com/prompts.html. I hope you’ll check them out and I hope you like them.
And if you get something published based on using one of my writing prompts, that’s awesome! I’d love to hear about it!
~Doug McIntire
www.DougMcIntire.com
Well, rather than inconsistently adding writing prompts to this blog, I’ve decided that I’m going to put them on my website. I have two writing prompts for each day in February; a single word or phrase prompt and a longer prompt. The page is laid out in calendar form so it’s pretty easy to navigate.
And I plan to update the prompts each month, so if you’re looking for something to write about, check out My Writing Prompts at http://www.dougmcintire.com/prompts.html. I hope you’ll check them out and I hope you like them.
And if you get something published based on using one of my writing prompts, that’s awesome! I’d love to hear about it!
~Doug McIntire
www.DougMcIntire.com
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