Make a three-minute list; whatever comes to mind when you look at the picture.
Read your list. Now write for 15 minutes. Don’t pause, edit or censor.
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Make a three-minute list; whatever comes to mind when you look at the picture.
Read your list. Now write for 15 minutes. Don’t pause, edit or censor.
Feel free to share your writing or your experience of the exercise in the comments section.
Pick two people from the photo.
Part 1
Answer these questions about each of them:
Question 1: Why are they distracted?
Question 2: When they see this photo ten years later, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Part 2
They meet for the first time on the way home from this event. Write about this, include plenty of dialogue.
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Choose a novel or a short story. Turn to the beginning. Write down the first sentence.
Now rewrite the sentence, changing something, anything. It could be a name, the point of view, one word, several words.
Using your new sentence as a starting point, write for 15 minutes. Try not to pause, censor or edit. Just see where it goes.
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Spend 10 minutes wandering around your home, or outside. Pay extra attention to what you see, hear and smell.
As soon as you can, write, in simple language, what you noticed.
Read what you have written.
Write something for 15 minutes.
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Have your writing pen and paper ready.
Set a timer and sit quietly, doing nothing for ten minutes.
Don’t worry if there are any background sounds.
When the time is up, start writing immediately. Don’t censor or edit.
Write for 15 minutes.
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Collect some objects when you’re next outside. Could be anything. A broken pen, a stone, a piece of unrecognizable plastic…
When you’re ready to write, pick one of these objects. Ask yourself, what is its story?
Write for 15 minutes. Try not to pause or edit.
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A man walks out of a bar…
Continue writing. Write for at least 15 minutes. Don’t pause or edit, this is a first draft.
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Use this brilliant photo from Lost Property as writing inspiration. Start writing and write for 10 minutes, without pausing or editing. Post your writing or thoughts in the comments section.
https://thepoetryofphotography.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/082514.jpg Another inspiring image from thepoetryofphotography. Great writing prompt…