Category Archives: Writing

Four Line Fiction (2436)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Christopher Payne from his book “Made In America

In keeping with labour day yesterday, this week’s image captures workers pouring molten iron into a crucible for the casting of Steinway & Sons piano plates as sparks from the process rain down like a curtain onto the Springfield, Ohio factory floor.

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Four Line Fiction (2426)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Mehmet Ali Ozcan / Anadolu / Getty

In this week’s photo a person looks out over floodwater that covers a stretch of Surfside Beach, Texas from the balcony of their royal blue home. In the foreground, a white address marker decorated with a turquoise seahorse stands partially submerged. Storm Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2024 hurricane season, produced heavy winds and rainfall, flooding various communities along the Texas coastline.

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Four Line Fiction (2424)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Guillermo Munoz / AFP / Getty Images

This weeks photo captures a silhouette of thrill seekers riding a rollercoaster in Bogotá, Colombia. The rollercoaster that is moving from right to left and about to plunge into the center of the photo is set against the backdrop of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano emitting a cloud of ash into the orange sky.

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Four Line Fiction (2422)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Christopher Payne from his book “Made In America

In this week’s image, engineers at a Corning laboratory in New York pour molten glass from a flask onto a stainless-steel tabletop to cool. Once cooled it will be cut into pieces for testing.

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Four Line Fiction (2420)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Ali Jadallah / Anadolu / Getty Images

In this week’s image taken in October 2023 in war torn Gaza, a woman holds a girl clad in bright red and yellow clothing against the grey backdrop of destruction in the wake of Israeli air strikes. Palestinians faced intense bombardment following Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel. The photographer, Ali Jadallah, has lost four relatives in the conflict.

This week’s image has strong political overtones however I am not looking for commentary or opinion on the war in Gaza. I provided background for the image as I believed it the right thing to do in light of the photographers personal loss. However, this blog is a creative space and the image is meant to spur imagination and creativity. There are many jumping off points for the image including a post apocalyptic tale of survival, planetary upheaval half way across the galaxy, or whatever you want your story to be. The ultimate goal is to inspire writers to craft a piece of fiction.

Note: Any extreme political views or hate propaganda appearing in the comment section will be removed.

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Four Line Fiction (2418)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Rafael Fernandez Caballero / UPY2024

This weeks image photo is a close up of a grey whale in Magdelena Bay, Mexico. The beasts eye, peering into the camera from beneath the surface, intersects at the top and right third of the image A line from the creatures mouth snaking from top left to bottom right, while two barnicles along for the ride sit at the its apex.

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Four Line Fiction (2416)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: David Ramos / Getty

This weeks photo is another aerial shot, this time it shows competitors competing in the 44th Marxa Beret Nordic ski race in Baqueira Beret, Spain. The images captures all of the racers moving from right to left, all but one following existing tracks carved into the snow on previous laps. The low angle of the sun sends elongated shadows of the skiers shooting towards the top of the image.

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Four Line Fiction (2414)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: CFoto / Future Publishing / Getty

This weeks photo is an aerial shot of dawn redwood trees on a snowy day in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. The burnt orange foliage and brown trunks set in contrast against the snow covered ground appear to radiate outward from a focal point near the center of the image.

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Four Line Fiction (2412)

Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. The concept for the challenge is simple. Every second Tuesday (bi-weekly) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from the Interweb. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines. And now for this week’s image…

Image: Tristan Fewings / Getty

In this week’s image an androgenous looking model poses at the “ON|OFF Presents … Jack Irving” showcase during London Fashion Week. The futurist design has the model carrying an over-sided blue exoskeleton that although not anatomically correct loosely resembles a human skeleton. I don’t think I’ll be wearing it to the next office party!

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Five Word Weekly Challenge (2411)

Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you.

This week’s theme is words ending in -verse. Don’t ask me why, I started with universe, but it had already been used in a previous #gb5ww edition and was therefore ineligible but for some unknown reason I decide all the other -verse words (well maybe not all, adverse, inverse and obverse to list a few omissions) were in for this edition.

Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.

Here are your prompt words for the coming week:

averse | converse | diverse | reverse | transverse

Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.

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