All this time I was waiting for the prompt picture, I had a lot of ideas for the style of the image, and what direction I could go with what I was given, etc etc etc.
Amazingly, none of them even came close to the picture we were given. But I wasn't going to back down from a challenge, so I did what any sensible person does when given a prompt: I opened the image, closed the image, opened it, closed it again, ad nauseam, and it wasn't long before I started to notice small details.
The first things I noticed were the little reeds--because the image is a bit blurry when you zoom in (at least on my screen, maybe this is the burden of high res
) that felt almost like impressionist brushstrokes to me. The more I thought about it, the more the entire bush felt like a painting, and I decided to lean into it!
So far my main ideas are:
- something about a magic painting
- a more descriptive story that paints a snapshot of a scene in broad brushstrokes
- a story about a safehouse (from that evocative lighting)
- something about a magic field constantly changing
Can't wait to see what I go with
though I'll probably end up having several different drafts for several stories
Topic: Week Zero Prompt Post - Impression or impressionist? (Read 2147 times)