No context, no notes, but I’ll post about this photo and the collection from which it comes on my main blog next week.
Just look at the man and the crowds below him and … write.
No context, no notes, but I’ll post about this photo and the collection from which it comes on my main blog next week.
Just look at the man and the crowds below him and … write.
This week’s prompt takes its inspiration from my Rare Books School visit to Rick Gekoski’s, and specifically Virginia Woolf’s participation in the Dreadnought hoax, recorded in the photo.
The prompt is simple: either react to the photo and freewrite, or write about a time you were dishonest … and got away with it. (Of course, the ‘you’ could be a fictional narrator and not you yourself)
Today I’m in Manchester leading a training session at the wonderful John Rylands (University of Manchester) Library. If there’s time, I’m hoping to make it to the Manchester Art Gallery to see a very special photography exhibition.
Showing the work of photographer Dorothy Bohm, there’s a great web presence that’s actually looking for help to identify the subjects of some of her portraits.
Today’s prompt is simple: pick a photo from the website and write - narrative, descriptive, wherever it takes you!
Weekly prompt: ‘The Jumper’
Came across this post randomly on the front of Wordpress.com, and just really love it - the movement in the sculpture, the composition of the photographs.
Although it’s not in a heritage institution (yet), I couldn’t resist posting it as a prompt.
A one-word instruction: respond!
Ref
Abigail Thompson. ‘Sculpture: ‘The Jumper’. Abigail Thompson Photography, 26 May 2010.
30/30 prompt: judge a book by its cover
To mark the end of its eightieth anniversary year, Faber is exhibiting items from its archive at the V&A until 30 May.
Today’s prompt is simple: write from a book cover. It could be one from your collection at home, or here are some links:
Faber Books’ photostream (flickr)
Eighty years of book cover design by Faber & Faber (Guardian.co.uk)
Or, if Faber’s not your thing, here’s the best of 2009’s British covers:
Weekly prompt: favourite books and left luggage
I can’t believe how often I’ve been up and down to Reading this Spring without realising that the Museum of Reading has an exhibition about my favourite children’s author, Michael Bond, who grew up in Reading. You can find out more about it on the official Paddington Bear website.
There’s a choice of prompts this week:
1. Write about your favourite book or character in a book when you were a child
2. Write about something you have left behind, like luggage at the station, from the perspective of the thing that’s been left. Is it waiting for you to return to it, or looking forward to starting out on its own? What will happen if it remains unclaimed and how does it feel about it?
If you want, you could combine both options and write about a book that you’ve lost from the perspective of one of the characters in it.
