I’m sure over the years everyone’s heard the expression “a picture paints a thousand words.” That’s more or less the jist of it. I’m quite certain that this idea has never been attempted before ever in the history of the world (it has), and it is entirely my own idea free from outside influence (it’s not). Simply put, once a month I will post a picture. We all then have a good sit down and think about it before coming back a month later with a short story about a thousand words long using that picture as inspiration. Should anyone else actually join in with me I’ll put handy-dandy little links to wherever they’ve posted their work. Then we will all feel warm and fuzzy inside that we all wrote something. We can ooh and aah at what everyone else wrote and perhaps catch a glimpse into the workings of their fevered brains.
So with the images at our disposal let’s crank the story-forge up to eleven, dial into the imagination exchange and set the word banks to maximal…
*pew*pew*
(The Pictonaut Challenge ran from September 2011 until February 2015)
2011
September 2011 – Grenade in the Rain
October 2011 – The Writing on the Wall
December 2011 – The Psychedelic Lady
2012
February 2012 – Faces in the Woods
April 2012 – Business as Usual
June 2012 – A Place in the Country
July 2012 – The Wheel in the Sky
August 2012 – A Man Drinks Tea
2013
June 2013 – The Tower on the Hill
August 2013 – Voyage to the Planets
2014
October 2014 – Paint the Town Red
November 2014 – Midnight Freight
2015
January 2015 – Beneath a Square Sun
February 2015 – End of the Line
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