Visual stimulation can be a great way to get your creative gears turning. That’s one reason I love looking through photos when I’m brainstorming new story ideas. Every (well, most) Monday, Wednesday and Friday I’ll be posting an image to help inspire other writers.

Visual stimulation can be a great way to get your creative gears turning. That’s one reason I love looking through photos when I’m brainstorming new story ideas. Every (well, most) Monday, Wednesday and Friday I’ll be posting an image to help inspire other writers.

Visual stimulation can be a great way to get your creative gears turning. That’s one reason I love looking through photos when I’m brainstorming new story ideas. Every (well, most) Monday, Wednesday and Friday I’ll be posting an image to help inspire other writers.

Visual stimulation can be a great way to get your creative gears turning. That’s one reason I love looking through photos when I’m brainstorming new story ideas. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I’ll be posting an image to help inspire other writers.

If you’d like to share what the image below inspires you to write, please do so in the comments!

Visual stimulation can be a great way to get your creative gears turning. That’s one reason I love looking through photos when I’m brainstorming new story ideas. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I’ll be posting an image to help inspire other writers.

If you’d like to share what the image below inspires you to write, please do so in the comments!

Starting this week, I’ll only be publishing visual writing prompts (still on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), and am discontinuing the classical writing prompts for the foreseeable future, due to a much busier schedule on my part.

If you’d like to share what the image below inspires you to write, please do so in the comments!

Starting this week, I’ll only be publishing visual writing prompts (still on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), and am discontinuing the classical writing prompts for the foreseeable future, due to a much busier schedule on my part.

If you’d like to share what the image below inspires you to write, please do so in the comments!

Starting this week, I’ll only be publishing visual writing prompts (still on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), and am discontinuing the classical writing prompts for the foreseeable future, due to a much busier schedule on my part.

If you’d like to share what the image below inspires you to write, please do so in the comments!

Looking through photos is a great way to get inspired. Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning a visual writing prompt will be posted.

If you’d like to share whatever you write based on the image below, please include it in the comments. It doesn’t have to be directly related to the image, as long as the image was the inspiration for it. At some point in the future, this may turn into a weekly competition with prizes. So get your practice in now!

There’s nothing wrong with getting story ideas from the stories and books of others. Inspiration can come from anywhere, and just because something has already been published doesn’t mean everything it contains is immediately off-limits. A word, a line, or a paragraph from someone else’s work can provide great inspiration for your own work. So each Tuesday and Thursday I provide a short excerpt from classic literature or other books in the public domain. All excerpts are taken from Project Gutenberg.