A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words:
Image-Driven Story Prompts and
Excercises for Writers by Phillip
Sexton
Different! Excited To Try
The old saying is true. A picture IS worth one thousand words. And if
youre a writer in need of inspiration, its also the key to creating an
endless number of stories while honing your craft. Inside, youll find more
than 110 intriguing photos. Each photo is paired with a thought-provoking
writing prompt. Together, theyll help you break through writers block,
generate hundreds of story ideas, and improve your writing ability. Many
prompts are geared toward specific elements of the craft, enabling you to
focus on whatever aspect of writing -- character, dialogue, beginnings,
ending, description -- you find most worthy of examination. Probe
deeper into the details of each photo and learn how to improve your
observational skills, find ideas everywhere, and create intriguing stories
on demand. Bottom line: If you want to give yourself a fierce, focused
writing workout, this is the book for you.

Personal Review: A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words: Image-Driven
Story Prompts and Excercises for Writers by Phillip Sexton
Just bought this book because it's so different from all the other writing-
instruction books. In my humble opinion, writing fiction is about conjuring
up images, emotions, and characters-- conjuring, in a word-- and the best
writers make you visualize as you read. I believe these pictures, along with
the prompts, will make me think more like a writer. The pictures are mostly
of a single detail or nuanced item; there are also some photos of varying
environments (long shots). Each of these photos train the writer to look at
the details and bring them out on the page. That's what most professional
authors do. They bring the image out as if you were staring at that single
frame, simplifying the broad-ranged setting by having you hone onto the
finely-tuned details; if the details are telling and representative enough of
the environment, the reader should be able to fill the rest out himself.
This book has a very interesting way of having you do that. Instead of
going into the philosophy of writing visually, it sets up the pictures for you
and assigns exercises that will enable you to learn that for yourself. In your
own style.
I'll be honest. I haven't done an exercise, yet. But I have a great feeling
about this book. Search inside and see what you think. It may be just what
you need to get the creative writing juices started, and I believe once you
get over the block of visualizing on the page, your writing experience
should prove to be much more productive and your writing should be just
overall improved, maybe even exciting to read.
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