(Is it different from a story
writing based on a paining?)
1. Can you see the picture in front of you?
2. You must remember that the photographer HAS CAUGHT a specific moment. What is it? Write only words to describe it.
3. The moment CAUGHT by the photographer captures an
emotion. What is it? Describe it with three sentences.
4. COMBINE the three sentences from above into one
(Take the most important and unlocking to put them into one).
5. The title of your short story is hidden in THIS ONE sentence. GET IT OUT!
Now it is the moment for you to
decide who the narrator is:
· Is he/she
one of the participants in the action?
or· Is he/she an omniscient narrator?
6. What are the most important details of the characters at the moment caught (in the picture)? Write them in a list.
7. How are these characters and details connected?
Join them.
8. What happened to them before the moment? Use your imagination and think about THE
PAST of the characters. Now you
create the pre story events (the exposition and the complication).
9. What will happen to the characters after the moment? Use your imagination
and think about the future of the
characters. Now you hint the denouement and behold the end of your story.
10. What is happening NOW, at this very moment?
Feel it. Be in the shoes of each character
at the moment! This way you depict the moment and create the gist (the
meaning, the idea and the feeling) of your short story.
