WRITING PROMPTS: PHOTO OF THE MONTH 2023
The images in this album have been handpicked by our Ship’s Belle to help spark your imagination. If you look closely, you may notice that they’re not just photos – they are doorways to the hidden recesses of your mind where stories are waiting to be let into the word. We all have them. Countless tales waiting to be spun out and woven, tied, and knitted into beautiful, or interesting, formats. Hopefully, Belle’s images can help you find the treasure within. Whatever they inspire you to create – we’d love to see and hear about it.
NOVEMBER 2023
This little beauty was lurking about under a bush on the doggie walk. Like a Rorschach test, your response to this photo probably says a lot about you! Is your first thought to wonder where the little pixie who has obviously only recently been sitting on top of it gone? Or do you imagine an embittered old crone with a crockpot cooking up a toxic revenge on a neighbour?
DECEMBER 2023
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SEPTEMBER 2023
Last of the summer magic! I told you I was changing direction and going off on a new direction soon! Run away with me into a fantasy world through this obvious portal in the woods. What sort of world lies on the other side of the strange sun dapples on this oddly rounded tree root? And who might be waiting for us there?
OCTOBER 2023
This gorgeously apocalyptic sunset looks like flames and smoke but is an entirely innocent shepherd’s delight. That needn’t stop us from imagining though! What do you see? Dragonfire? An angry volcano? Are the flames illuminating an end-of-times disaster? What kind of story does this picture whisper in your ears?
JULY 2023
When I saved this photo I called the jpeg “White Heat.” The mix of softness and saturated sultriness makes me imagine thunder about to break, or secrets about to bubble up to the surface of things. It feels like a held breath a moment before the storm. This is what I love about high summer – the tension in the stillness.
AUGUST 2023
Every now and then nature and the urban landscape create a mood so suggestive it deserves to be written. These power lines make me think all sorts of dark thoughts, from gallows to electrocution, and their juxtaposition with those beautiful but louring evening clouds just makes them all the more insidious. Who’s meeting under them? Why?
MAY 2023
I love how the light in this photo is too much, too intense, the sky too blue (I promise it’s unfiltered, this is just Lady Vancouver doing her thing). The beauty is almost eerie, and this could just as easily be the cover for a murder story as a romance. Or… what? What would you do with it?
JUNE 2023
Is there someone up there, in that crane? Are they the only witness to something nefarious happening in the car park below? Who is lost on the mountain, fixing their eyes in desperate hope on the crane’s orange-lit silhouette? Are those storm clouds gathering, or the first hush of a peaceful night?
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