Create a story

 

Use the painting above to stimulate story ideas.

Begin with a mood:  Develop joy, frustration, intrigue or humor.

Set the stage:   What has happened?  What is about to happen?  What results?

Notice details in the environment to include:  What does the color red mean.  Name the birds and their situation.  What are the three men about to discover?

What happens at the end of the street?

What is going on behind the third window in the second story?  What does the person with the glasses say to intimidate the fellow across the table?

Why and where are the couple on the scooter going?

Add sounds, scents and tastes.

Energize your writing with questions:  "what if"  "and then what."

Natural Encounters

"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams."  - Helen Keller

Each day you breathe in and out about five hundred cubic feet of air without even noticing.  Daily the sun rises and sets and weather patterns abound.  Seasons move on and constellations revolve around the sky. Tides ebb and flow.

Nature can entertain, stimulate and enlighten.  The doors and windows of wonder open to you daily.  

What will you notice today?  

Recall a moment you had an "encounter" with nature.

Oyster Stew

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Federico Fellini


Write about the ways you overcome obstacles.  


Show how you crash through adversity.  Reveal how you craft life's gritty circumstances into pearls.


Create your own oyster metaphor.