Photographs can be a very effective way of stimulating the imagination. At the time of writing I’ve published 47 “photoprompts”. I shall keep on posting them, but for now here’s a list of the most recent ones posted here so far.
Proof indeed that punctuation really does make an awful lot of difference.
I find pictures like this help me if I’m attempting to write ‘hard-boiled’ fiction.
I like photographing scenery in black and white, even though it may seem counterintuitive to do so.
I think if I were a fiction writer I could write a decent short story using this picture as a prompt.
To be honest, I don’t know what sort of creative writing this picture might inspire, but I think it looks nice!
I thought I’d better take a photo of the last remaining hole before that, too, disappeared.
What’s a stainless steel ball doing near the iconic Millennium Bridge?
Imagine being in the same (small) building as 10,400 barrels of gunpowder…
I have no idea what this is for, or what it contains.
Here’s a list of the “photoprompts” published here so far. Can they stimulate your creative writing juices?
Shouldn’t we have had booths like this a long time ago, long before the pandemic?
This is a formless photo that I think is evocative. Of what? Don’t know: just evocative.
The photo I’ve selected for today is actually of a forest floor. What kind of story or narrative does it suggest for you?
What ideas for creative writing does this black and white image of a forest clearing conjure up for you?
Signs in the environment can provide great stimulation for our imagination, and tell us about history in some cases too.