Writing Exercises - Creative Writing Exercise

Writing Exercise to get those creative juices flowing

This is a picture exercise that will help your writing skills and your creativity level.

• Firstly, find a photograph or a picture that stimulates your imagination in some way. Does the photo make you sad, happy, and excited or other feel emotions?

• Relax and look at the photo for no more than 5 minutes.

• Begin to write about what you see in the picture. How does it make you feel, what does the photograph say to you? Why are the people smiling, why are they sad, why do they look how they do?

• Keep writing about the photograph, don’t stop to think about what you are writing, just let your hand, and your mind write freely. Don’t think about what you are going to write first, as soon as the 5 minutes is up, start writing and keep going.

• Don’t worry about the spelling mistakes or the grammar mistakes, this is an exercise to get your imagination flowing and your creative juices flowing.

• If you think your mind is blank and you can’t think of anything to write don’t worry. It is the actual act of writing that gives you the ideas of what to write, not the other way around.

• You will soon see ideas and creative thoughts that you didn’t know you had!