Describing Pictures

3 choices

WH-Q words

Creative writing

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?

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/

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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Creative Writing