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Keiko_Mushi
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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 8:43 pm


Writing from Stimuli
In this activity we will offer a few images for each person to use as the stimuli for writing more than fifteen sentences worth of literate expansion upon what you are seeing. I will use an array of stimuli which includes art, pictures, articles and a description of a person. If you are not confident at first then try writing from the art and pictures as that will help you with the visual conponent. Visuals are often the main obstacle from writing something down in the first place.

1. View Stimuli
2. Consider what features are more important for the piece of writing
3. Expand upon what the stimuli says and create some background or a circumstance for whatever is mentioned
4. Formulate the priority of where each segment will go trying to break up the information with good sentence structure
5. Write it!

*Art as Stimuli
Sonia y Sandra Hernandez: Marin
Yvonne Ahmad: Ice Prince
Mauricio Herrera: Lugh
Chatkaew Yodhorm: Belvedere
Roger Nguyen: Happy Days
Roger Nguyen: Shoujo Mercenary
Zhi Xie: Elvish Princess
Larry Elmore: Conjuring Stone
Ig Barros: Inquisitor
Viviane.ch: Autumn
Elena Panova: Sarisan
Elena Panova: Tears for the Moon
Kandice Wang: Personal Goddess
Emily Warren: Starry Night
Serena Samborski: Fire Spell
Pana Stamos: Her Holy Honour
Pana Stamos: The Silver Portrait
Marika Paul: Seki
Marika Paul: Spring
Don Maitz: Corum
Naoko Nakao:Adventures
Naoko Nakao: Notice
Senna Morioka: Repair Her
Nikko Rude: Merry Christmas
Keiko Ayakiri: Heroes
Christy Lijewski: Edge of the World
Christy Lijewski: Jack of Faith
Laurence Kranitz: Dragon Flight
Stephanie Stone: Anubis with Sekhmet
Stephanie Stone: Egyptian Were
Simone Beatriz: Hydrangeas in the Window
Simone Beatriz: Memories
Simone Beatriz: Sakura no hana
Simone Beatriz: Hana san
Simone Beatriz: Autumn Leaf
Simone Beatriz: Netsubou
Gracjana Zielinska: Suspense Circus
Gracjana Zielinska: An Endless Game
Gracjana Zielinska: Sand
Gracjana Zielinska: Winter

*Photos as Stimuli

*Articles as Stimuli

*Description as Stimuli
PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 8:49 pm


Writing Links
In this post I will add helpful links for you to assist in honing your writing skills. As time goes by this will expand to other areas as well, including not just language skills but also art sites and interesting articles on a variety of subjects. If you have anything of interest to add then do not hesitate to PM me.

*Language Skills
Crazy Colour: Basic Rules of Punctuation
Crazy Colour: Elements of Style (Grammar) Introduction
Crazy Colour: Ten Linguistic Guidelines Checklist
Crazy Colour: Writing Skills Handbook
Writing Skills
Dictionary.com
Merriam-Webster Online
The Quotations Page
Online Dictionary, Encyclopaedia and Thesaurus
The Philospher's Magazine on the Internet: Philosopher's Quotations
Searchable Shakesphere Quotation Database

*Vehicle Action
This is mainly to see some movement and understand a bit more about vehicles so that we can write about the subject matter.

Airshow Action Photo Gallery

*Sport
This section is to add a bit more variety for the material that you can cover allowing you to see sportspeople in action.

La Jolla Surfing Picture Gallery

*People
What is a piece of writing without protagonists?

Pictures of famous Physicists
Reformation Picture Gallery

*Places
What is a story without a locale?

Japan Picture Gallery
Pictures of Ukraine

*Miscellaneous
In this section there are numerous galleries and articles that might just assist in creating something tangible.

America's Premier Professional Photographer's Picture Gallery
HistoryBuff.com

Keiko_Mushi
Vice Captain


Keiko_Mushi
Vice Captain

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:45 pm


I just decided to start this off by writing something on a couple pictures in the list. The beginning piece of writing is based on what I saw in Sonia y Sandra Hernandez: Marin

Quote:
Marin was a supernatural being that walked the plains of mortal men righting what she had perceived as wrong. For this task it was fitting to create the perfect custume for the job. To suit her individual personna she had chosen a series of movie props from a superhero film that had never had the money to complete. So she became 'Eaglestar'. Eaglestar had been the name of the superhero and was easily indentifiable by the shoulder guards and bright red leggings that were lopsided on either leg, the right leg going to her waist in contradition to the other one that was anywhere from six to nine inches shorter.


The following is based upon Yvonne Ahmad: Ice Prince

Quote:
Lord Gruuhn was getting married. It had been happy news to all of his subjects for he had been widowed for numerous years now and his sorrow ended in sorrowful followers for they shared in his grief. There was nothing more fitting for the Ice Prince (he was a noble who had been trained under the greatest Ice Elementalist in all of Calander's known history) to be marrying his opposition, a fiery red-head elementalist of fire. She had been annoyed at his shy behaviour when they had first met so she had dragged the recluse off into the night for an evening of dancing amongst her people. It had been the first time that he had fun in a long time and the first time that the pair had held each other.
And now the young tailor's apprentice, Bett had been working on the large engagement gown that he had to wear for the special occasion. Seven hours straight was the amount of time that she had spent slaving over the changes to the outfit so tiredness had began to set in making her prone to mistakes and slightly agitated in between the periods of snoozing whenever he wasn't paying any attention. She was amazed at how well the ice-haired heir looked in even the incomplete garment set and had thought that she would have wanted to look all day if it hadn't been for this damned work.


I know that it isn't much but I hope that it shows some of the components of the pictures themselves.
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