Comments on: Wordless Stories http://www.litdrift.com/2010/03/16/a-thousand-words-is-worth-a-picture/ Storytelling in the 21st Century Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Paulo Campos http://www.litdrift.com/2010/03/16/a-thousand-words-is-worth-a-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-1635 Paulo Campos Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:22:36 +0000 http://www.litdrift.com/?p=4335#comment-1635 I've found this an invaluable exercise. I originally started my blog as a place to write a daily 10 minute response to whatever image showed up as recently tagged "interesting" on flickr. I find the picture and start writing immediately. I end up producing really random work. Although it's often a mess, it's also stuff I'd never think of without a time constraint (which I often run over) and has led to a few completed short story drafts over the past three months. Recently another writer in my writing group joined the site. Now he and post the picture and write first on alternate days (eg. Thursday was his post, Friday was mine). Having another writer's ideas to feed off of (in addition to the picture) adds an interesting twist and has lead to some interesting chats between us about writing we wouldn't have had otherwise. I've been encouraging other writer friends to see if this kind of creative experience works for them as well. I'm glad to read your post encouraging this as well. If you're interested, the link to our posts labeled "10 Minute Exercises" is here: http://yingleyangle.blogspot.com/search/label/10%20Minute%20Exercise I’ve found this an invaluable exercise. I originally started my blog as a place to write a daily 10 minute response to whatever image showed up as recently tagged “interesting” on flickr. I find the picture and start writing immediately.

I end up producing really random work. Although it’s often a mess, it’s also stuff I’d never think of without a time constraint (which I often run over) and has led to a few completed short story drafts over the past three months.

Recently another writer in my writing group joined the site. Now he and post the picture and write first on alternate days (eg. Thursday was his post, Friday was mine). Having another writer’s ideas to feed off of (in addition to the picture) adds an interesting twist and has lead to some interesting chats between us about writing we wouldn’t have had otherwise.

I’ve been encouraging other writer friends to see if this kind of creative experience works for them as well. I’m glad to read your post encouraging this as well.

If you’re interested, the link to our posts labeled “10 Minute Exercises” is here:
http://yingleyangle.blogspot.com/search/label/10%20Minute%20Exercise

]]> By: Icy Sedgwick http://www.litdrift.com/2010/03/16/a-thousand-words-is-worth-a-picture/comment-page-1/#comment-1616 Icy Sedgwick Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:26:03 +0000 http://www.litdrift.com/?p=4335#comment-1616 I'm an amateur photographer as well as a writer and I've long applied photographic principles to my writing. They have more in common than you'd think! But I'm so pleased you're enjoying your job, and surrounding yourself with such inspiration all day. It's a wonderful world out there. I’m an amateur photographer as well as a writer and I’ve long applied photographic principles to my writing. They have more in common than you’d think! But I’m so pleased you’re enjoying your job, and surrounding yourself with such inspiration all day.

It’s a wonderful world out there.

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