This document provides tips for describing pictures and stimulating creative writing. It suggests using WH-questions to engage readers and recommends using less common words from a thesaurus. Finally, it outlines a 5-step process for observing pictures in more detail like emotions, colors, objects, adjectives, and then composing a creative work like a poem or story based on those observations.

1. Describing Pictures
WH-Q words
3 choices
Creative
writing

2. WH-Q
• You may use WH-Q in order to stimulate
curiosity or suspense and to make your
audience thinking.
• For example:
1)What do you think will happen next?
2) Who do you think I met there?
3) Don’t you think this is awesome?

3. Words
• Instead of using common words, You may
want to use new words.
• Visual thesaurus helps you to give other words
that have same meaning.
• Try this out!
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/

4. Creative Writing
After examining the picture, try these five easy steps to jump start
your creativity:
1. EMOTIONAL OBSERVATION: Write your initial response of the
feeling you get from it (ie. happiness, sadness, serenity, grief)
2. COLORS: Write down the colors that you see (skin tone, colors of
clothing or objects, background colors, etc.)
3. OBJECTS: Write down single items that you observe (ie. shirt,
hands, arms, teeth, chair, lights, sky, clouds)
4. ADJECTIVES: Write down descriptive words next to your objects
(ie. wrinkled dress, bloodshot eyes, grass stained tennis shoes, dirty
water, broken chair)
5. COMPOSE: Unscramble the individual words you’ve compiled to
begin creating a sentence, even if it doesn’t immediately make sense.
Think about what type of literary composition you could turn this
picture into (ie. poem, short story, screenplay, novel)
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