Imagination is just the thing to inspire young writers.
To get started, visit our Pinterest: Snail of Orange
Juxtapose the grotesque and the delicious, the crude and the dainty by drawing inspiration from this snail—usually not considered the most beautiful or appealing creature-—created from an orange.
How can you create a beautiful concept out of something unexpected; something strange and slimy like a snail? Or vice versa?
Unexpected images are just the thing to quell writer's block. Think .
Here's another bit of fodder from Les Miserables: “One morning [Bishop D—] was in his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind him, unseen by him: suddenly he paused and gazed at something on the ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard him say:– ‘Poor beast! It is not its fault!’”
Example Haiku:
An Art Lesson
stamps of greasy lips
and fingertips on napkins are
unexpected flowers
-Constance