Writing Exercise: Create a story with random images
Here’s an exercise for you. Take a bunch of random images that you find online or in a magazine and write a story about them. Give the people in your images names and personalities. Use the items in the images as props that they interact with. Create a conflict.
For example: Say you randomly choose the following 4 images — 1) A lady under an umbrella, waiting for the bus. 2) An image of a candy store. 3) An image of an empty house. 4) An image of a big building.
Here’s my quick story: Amanda was a nice, happy person who always lit up a room with her smile. For years, Amanda saved up her money to open up her very own candy store, a childhood dream of hers. Unfortunately for Amanda, she missed a payment on her house because she missed the bus. The bank would not give her an extension. The creditors decided she was unfit to pay her mortgage and decided to take the house from her. She was left with nothing. What little she had was put into her candy store in hopes of earning enough to purchase another home. Unfortunately, Amanda’s candy store shut down.
Amanda didn’t smile anymore. She never waved hello or goodbye. Her world changed in a matter of a months. Amanda, however, didn’t give up. She secretly worked on a recipe for something she called, “Flavor-Full Funees!”, a candy that lasted hours without losing flavor and would change flavors depending on your mood. — She sold her idea for millions of dollars to Wonka Candy, who also hired her. She now looks out the window from the big Wonka building at the spot where her old candy store used to be.
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You see how much fun that can be? You not only have a good time thinking of fun, crazy ideas, but you also practice your writing skills and your brainstorming skills. And yes, I know, my story is no work of art. I just wrote it out quickly as an example.
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