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A 10-Minute Ekphrasis Reset
Ekphrasis is just writing inspired by visual art. If you’re stuck, don’t start with a blank page — start with an image. This is a fast reset you can repeat any time, and a 7-day prompt run you can use all week.
Timer: 10 minutes
No editing
Fresh draft
- Look (60 seconds): list 10 concrete details (objects, posture, colour, setting).
- Write (8 minutes): start with “Something in this image wants…” and don’t stop.
- Twist (60 seconds): add one sentence that changes everything.
Start here if you want: Frida Kahlo’s The Wounded Deer (1946).
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Write from Art Week: 7 prompts (tap to expand)
Each day: pick an artwork, set an 8-minute timer, draft fast. Share a line if you want — no pressure.
Day 1 — Want
Start: “Something in this image wants…”
Focus on desire + resistance. What’s in the way?
Day 2 — Before
Write the moment 10 seconds before the image.
What just happened? What’s about to change?
Day 3 — After
Write what happens 10 minutes after the image.
Consequences beat description.
Day 4 — The Lie
Describe the image, but make the narrator unreliable.
What are they hiding? What do they refuse to name?
Day 5 — The Voice
Give one object a voice (tree, chair, dress, shadow). Let it speak.
Keep it concrete. Let the object reveal the scene.
Day 6 — Missing Person
Who should be here but isn’t? Write them into the scene.
Absence creates story.
Day 7 — One revision move
Pick your best draft. Cut the first 2 sentences. Sharpen the “want.” Add one sensory detail not in the image.
That’s your “share” version.
Want to see what ekphrastic work can look like? Five After Frida Kahlo, by Barbara Krasner
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Built for writers who want new pages now: a repeatable process, a prompt bank you can keep using, and fresh draft material by the end.
Make it social (and help us repost you)
If you post a line from your draft, tag us and we’ll repost our favourites across the week.
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