Writing Prompts with Random Words and a Rose

For your free-write assignment today, I ask you to free-write about the person holding the rose.

Our other writing prompt options for today are to use the random words below to compose 3 to 5 sentences using a minimum of 3 words from the list per sentence.  You can change the forms of the words if you wish, like making something plural, etc.  After you compose some sentences, pick one sentence to start a poem, a story, a memoir, etc.  

Happy Writing!

Your random words for today are:

drizzle, more, peaches, moon, skinny, melon, operation, mutter, stand, poppy, anniversary, pebbly, Scottish, spite, meadow, between, anticipation, glance, jaybird blue, cluster, bummer, break, come back, honey, kiss, last, grow, stretch

Writing Prompt: Sigh of the Wind

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Today's creative writing prompts are inspired by a friend of mine, Carolyn Knox, who painted the picture above, "The Sigh of the Wind."  Carolyn does the most amazing water coloring paintings, and I'm blessed to have two of them in my home. I have worked on two ekphrastic projects with her over the years, and it was always a pleausre.

I thought since it is the last day in March, Carolyn's painting for inspiration would be a great one to end the month. I had to look at it twice to see the face of the wind, but it is certainly there. I love it when a picture can give two different images at once.

Poetry Prompt: Use the painting as your inspiration and write for 10 minutes without stopping. You can see yesterday's post for a link if you would like to read about ekphrastic poetry.

Creative Nonfiction Prompt: Reflect on wind and storms. Do the images provoke a memory? If so, write about it.

Fiction Prompts: Today I will offer 2 sotry starters.

Story starter 1: She could not rest. The wind rocked her conscious and she knew she had to face the truth about. . .

Story starter 2: It wasn't just the wind coming through the window. It was something more, something with. . .

Many thanks to Carolyn for granting permission to use her painting. 
Here is link to more of her paintings http://www.monfortsfineart.com/.
You can read more about Carolyn below. 



Carolyn Knox is a watercolorist and art therapist. She painted and sold watercolors steadily for ten years before moving to California. Her paintings decorate homes, businesses and galleries mostly in the Midwest. Before focusing on painting, she was a studio potter for 15 years making functional ware, using electric kiln firings. Weaving has been another interest which she also teaches at her current position. As an art therapist, she has worked in behavioral hospitals (all ages and populations) and skilled nursing facilities for the elderly and people with disabilities.

Here are some books on Ekphrastic Poetry:

Elastic Ekphrastic: Poetry on Art

Van Gogh Writing Prompt: Van Gogh's Irises

In honor of Vincent Van Gogh's Birthday, I offer you to look at these beautiful irises he painted about one year before he took his own life. 

Poetry Prompt:   Poetry from art is called ekphrastic poetry.   If you want to learn more about ekphrastic poetry, click on this link:  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5918 .Otherwise, just a write poem that is inspired by this painting.

Fiction Writing Prompts:

Option 1:  Fiction can be inspired by art, too.  Look at the picture for at least 1 minute and listen for a beginning to a story and go where your pen (or keyboard) takes you. 

Option 2:  Story starter:   "Her name was Iris and her eyes were _______ . . . "

Whatever you write today, I encourage you spend a few minutes studying the painting before you write.   For me, just looking at a painting can be enough to bring on the muse.