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We blog for a million reasons, but in the end we’re all storytellers. Our writing challenges help you push your…

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We blog for a million reasons, but in the end we’re all storytellers. Our writing challenges help you push your writing boundaries and explore new ideas, subjects, and writing styles.

To participate, tag your post with DPchallenge and include a link to this post to generate a pingback. Please make sure your post has been specifically written in response to this challenge. We might just highlight some of our favorites on Freshly Pressed on Friday, or in our monthly newsletter.

In the past, we’ve loved reading your stories inspired from our “1,000 Words” challenges. Today, let’s revisit this challenge — and this time, you have several inspiration images to choose from:

Emptiness
Relaxation
Contemplation
Creativity

For this week’s challenge, use one of the images in this gallery as a starting point for a short story, poem, free-write, or musing on whatever you’d like. The one-word captions — from contemplation to emptiness — are things I personally think about when I view these images. But photography triggers different ideas and emotions in all of us, given our varied paths and perspectives. In the image of the man looking out into the sea, I may think he’s contemplating in peace and enjoying the view, but you might wonder what he’s staring at. What troubles he may have. Or, if someone is watching him from behind.

I have my own narratives for these pictures; I’m curious to see how you use them to conjure your own. To clarify, you don’t need to write 1,000 words for your submission (although I won’t stop you if you do!). While the challenge calls for you to pick just one image, you’re welcome to experiment with more than one, if you’re so inspired.

Feel free to upload and insert any of my images in your own posts:

(For more information on adding a credit to an image, see this post on sourcing and attributing photos.)

Happy writing!

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      1. Wonderful! I think we as bloggers have to really be careful to make sure we are giving credit where it is certainly due. You work is beautiful and sharing it with the world is our pleasure. But bloggers need to credit you and all photos we use whenever possible.

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  12. I like the last one of the lake:

    “Floating here
    Without a care
    Hey!
    Stop staring at my underwear!”

    That’s what you mean right? (*^▽^*)

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