Creative Writing Topics from a Picture of Apples

Many people think that creative writing is as easy as sitting down with pen and paper or at a computer and just letting the words flow. Yes, it can be that easy sometimes, but not all the time. Writers struggle to find the right words at times and even to come up with topics.

Just sitting down to a computer does not always produce stellar material. Most writer's need prompts to get them going. It could be a memory. It could be a scent. It could be a picture.

Creative writing can be challenging at times. Try looking at a picture to get ideas. Here is my way of helping you. Look at the picture featured in this article. What writing prompts can you come up with? Here are a few I've come up with along with the help of some friends. You can use them, variations of them, or come up with others on your own.

Look at this picture. It is a work of art depicting apples. Normally one would look at it and see apples. A writer sees the apples and more. This is where inspiration can be obtained. Writing topics and titles can be found within this one piece of art. Hard to believe?

Check this out.

An apple is not just a painting here. It is not just a fruit. It can be the subject of a best selling novel. How? Close your eyes. Let your mind clear itself. When you are completely blank, bring up the image of the apples or another image of an apple that you are more familiar with. It is important here that you don't limit yourself. Remind yourself that you are not limited by any laws of physics or society. Anything can go.

As you do this, you'll begin to see ways that a simple apple can be used to develop creative writing topics.

Forget the apple. Maybe it is the painting itself that becomes the topic of a story. Wow! A whole new dimension opened up. Maybe you could combine the apple and the painting. Maybe it is the painter. See how your mind can take a picture of apples and expand in all kinds of directions? That's the fun of creative writing.

Here are some creative writing ideas that you can use or that can help you think of other ideas. Remember to let you imagination run wild and don't let anything create boundaries for your writing.

- The connection of people from various social and economic groups through the simple eating of an apple.

- Lovers use an apple orchard to meet secretly

- The secret to an age old mystery found in the core of a brass apple.

- Detailed look of apple painting reveals secret messages.

- Terrorist use of apples to attack country

- How an apple helps a man win a bake off

- The story behind the apple painting and why it appealed to the artist

- The apple as a symbol of a secret society

- Secret messages smuggled through caramel apples

- The horror of an apple bobbing contest

- A friendship tested over who makes the best apple pie

- How the smell of cooked apples brings back memories to a number of people with all being different

- How the apple saw the exchange in the Garden of Eden

- A story of a worm deciding on the right apple to make his home out of

- A small child plants an apple see with his father before he goes off to war.

- Apple blossoms used to start a war

- The hilarious addiction of a town to apple cider

- How the appearance of a specific type of apple signified impending doom

- Deaths caused by apples

- The miraculous cures of many diseases by using apples

- Seduction by apples

- Lessons of humility through apples

- A sculptor of apples has to decide on his future

Keep in mind that these are just a small beginning for you. Hopefully, these inspired you to write a story or come up with a whole new twist of your own. Short stories, poems, songs, and novels can be found in this list and in the ones you come up with on your own.

Want to know more about creative writing and what you can do to be inspired or to expand your horizons. Check out the BellaOnline.com's Fiction Writing section. There are articles on homonyms, confusing words, writing prompts, grammar, and so much more. You can even find reviews of various fiction pieces and read interviews with many of the authors. Check it out at - http://www.bellaonline.com/site/fictionwriting.

Never let anything stop your imagination. Creative writing should not be bound. When it flows freely, you can discover so many wonderful things.

Keep Writing!