1. Picture Prompts: Pictures That Tell a Story Time for something a little different as far as projects and/or activities: a picture prompt to help you write a story. The idea behind this writing exercise is to use the picture as inspiration for a story, which can ultimately be about anything and not strictly related to the image in the photo or picture. It has been said that stories start as nothing more than pictures in our minds, things we have seen or imagined, and that writing is simply trying to make sense of those pictures, make up the story behind them and find out why it is that those pictures touch us so much. You will need to pick 25 out of the 80 pictures available to you and write a brief description for each photo. You may use Power Point to copy and paste photos and write two paragraphs (six to eight complete sentences). If you would like the caption or short story to be longer that is great. Include on your slide or paper: Title, Caption and Photo.