Creativity Muscle Workouts: A Picture is Worth 1000 words
Jun 29, 2022
They say a picture is worth 1000 words...
In the world of storybooks, that sounds about right. A 30 page illustrated book... that's 30,000 words plus the words written on the page and you have the equivalent of a personal development book.
But let's face it pictures are way more fun... So, let's use a few to get your creativity muscle working out!!
Creativity Muscle Workout #5
Below are a four pictures from Unsplash, a free photo website, with the photographers listed. Allow yourself about 90 -120 seconds per photograph and WRITE FROM the picture. (The purpose of short time on 4 different pics is to not allow your mind too long to analyze the picture, but to run with whatever first emerges from it) Here are few questions to get you thinking...
- What comes to mind?
- What perspective is interesting? (person, animal, flower etc. any perspective)
- What is happening, just happened, or about to happen?
- What is being whispered?
- What is being felt, observed taken in, expressed?
- What's the relationship, the moment, and/or the emotion?
DEBRIEF:
- Which is easiest? Why do you think that is?
- Which is hardest? Why do you think that is?
- As you look at them, which do you LIKE the best? Why?