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Visual Writing Prompt #105

Cameron Chapman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:34:12 +0000

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.

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

A couple of basic ground rules for submitting your work. Please, nothing derogatory or defamatory about any person, living or dead. Also, please keep your writing samples PG-13 rated. I reserve the right to remove comments that I don’t find appropriate for the site or that I deem may be potentially offensive.

Photo by mikebaird, via Flickr

Visual Writing Prompt #104

Cameron Chapman — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:17:04 +0000

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

Photo by Augapfel, via Flickr

Visual Writing Prompt #103

Cameron Chapman — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:36:39 +0000

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

Photo by crabchick, via Flickr

Visual Writing Prompt #102

Cameron Chapman — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:26:24 +0000

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!

Photo by chalkie_colour_circles, via Flickr

Visual Writing Propmt #101

Cameron Chapman — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:41:08 +0000

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

Photo by closelyobserved.com, via Flickr

Visual Writing Prompt #100

Cameron Chapman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:00:13 +0000

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!

Photo by Randy Son Of Robert, via Flickr

Visual Visual Writing Prompt #99

Cameron Chapman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:18 +0000

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

Photo by Jaroslaw Pocztarski, via Flickr

Visual Writing Prompt #98

Cameron Chapman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:41:02 +0000

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

Photo by m o d e, via Flickr

Visual Writing Prompt #97

Cameron Chapman — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:00:50 +0000

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!

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Classical Writing Prompt #54

Cameron Chapman — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:08:12 +0000

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.

If you’d like to share whatever you write based on these excerpts, please feel free to do so in the comments below. At some point in the future, this may turn into a weekly competition with prizes. So get your practice in now!

Classical Writing Prompt #54

The inhabited part is not more than four miles in length, and varies in breadth from half a mile to less than a quarter. The rocky vine-clad cliffs on one side tower almost perpendicularly from their base to the height of at least fifteen hundred feet; while across the vale—in striking contrast to the scenery opposite—grass-grown elevations rise one above another in blooming terraces.
— Typee, by Herman Melville