Ideal for those days when something concrete is needed to use as a practical exercise, this prompt set is all about water and its contribution to setting and atmosphere and then place a character into your scene. Seal/Girl readers- two of the locations feature in the story. Can you match the image to the place in the book?
This exercise is all about looking closer. Often it’s the little details that bring a scene to life in the mind of the reader. All of these photographs were taken along the stretch of coastline where Seal/Girl is set. There is something interesting about every one – the light, the texture, the form.
The final exercise of the three uses all the skills developed so far to produce a piece of writing based on a single image with an environmental theme. To do it well, you need to put together your ability to place a character into a scene, create setting and atmosphere, and observe tiny details.
Elspeth Stevenson 