Photograph as Prompt
This is the eighth installment of The Curious
Creative, weekly 10-minute writing exercises for the busy individual
interested in exploring her creativity. For the complete rationale, click here.
My Thoughts:
In Week
6, you played around with composition in photography. This week, you will
take one photograph from your Week 6 scavenger hunt, and use it as a writing
prompt.
In case you did not complete Week 6, I will give you a photograph to work with.
If you desire to take your writing a step further beyond the 10-minute creative
play, you have the option to use your freewrite to create a poem with sensory
details and metaphors.
Your Turn!
- Choose one of
your photos from Week 6’s scavenger hunt. Or use this photograph as your
prompt:
photo credit: Dale Scroggins
- Freewrite
for 5 minutes: What is the concrete object in the photo?
What do you think
is happening in this picture?
- Read your
freewrite, and underline the golden phrases in your freewrite (phrases
that stick out for their beauty, irony, poignancy, etc.).
- Make a
list of adjectives that describe the object in the photo in terms of sense
imagery (sight, smell, sound, taste, touch).
- For
several of your sensory adjectives, brainstorm a different object that
shares that same quality. (ex: pink – cotton candy; waterproof – Gor-tex
jacket)
- Write
several metaphors/similes comparing the objects. (ex: Dew rolls off the
rose petals like rain on a Gor-tex jacket.)
- Combine
one-two golden phrases you underlined in your freewrite with two
metaphors/similes to create a short poem.
- Come up
with title for poem.
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