During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing.
Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry. Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or soulful, not moving the group emotionally.
But when I brought in images, it opened up a whole other space.
Images helped writers access their depth. It was as if they didn’t need to find their words, they needed to find their image.
Once they did, their writing was rich and often profound. Images bring depth–they bring us into our hearts and deeper knowing.