(Feb 24, 2011) Friday Writing Essentials: an...

Hello, Everyone! :-) (Thanks, Greg, for helping me get that dang picture to line up nicely with my words!)

This week has been insanely good! I'm super excited about things on the horizon. I'll share more next week. :-)

I love photography and looking at pictures, so we're going to do another one of those types of prompts today. :-) (I have more planned for the future.)

I especially enjoy seeing and reading what other people feel or think about the same picture. It's possible to have a huge variety of responses. One person will notice clothing or dirtiness while another notices emotions or the positions of the people/animals in the shot. It's awesome. :-)

For today's prompt, I want you to choose one of the photos below and tell us what it says to you. You can talk about concrete or abstract things. You can discuss the first thing that pops into your mind, or you can talk about the picture itself. You can tell us what you think the photographer is trying to say, or what you'd be saying if you were the one who took it. You can tell us what the person/animal is saying. Get creative! :-)

I don't really have any rules for this one. We'll do another grammar-related prompt again soon, but not today.

The original photo for the orangutan can be found here.

The original photo of the old lady can be found here.

If you'd like, you may choose to do both pictures. I'm fine with whatever. :-)

Remember:

You have until Thursday, March 1, 2012 (month of my birthday, my husband's birthday, and our first anniversary!!! :-)) at midnight to write and post, and it can be in any format.

I will read and comment on your responses a week from today.

* Have your title say FWE or Friday Writing Essential, and have the initials "OOL" (Orangutan and an Old Lady) in it.

* Make sure to post to the Writing Essential Group.

* Put FWE or Friday Writing Essentials and the initials "OOL" in your tags. (I won't find your post without these tags.)

Have a great week!

Oh, and also, I'm not on Gather very often anymore, but I do check my messages. If you want to get a hold of me, send me a message anytime you need to, and I'll get it when I sign in on Fridays!

Comments: 30

Barbary Chaapel Feb 24, 2012, 12:54am UTC

Hey, we were married in March, also - crazy people driving to Niagra Falls in a snow storm.

I love that lady's apron. I wonder which pic will get the most posts.

JOHN BECK Feb 24, 2012, 1:15am UTC

Good question, Barbary.

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 9:08am UTC

Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing. I tried to pick pictures that would elicit different responses.

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JOHN BECK Feb 24, 2012, 1:15am UTC

This could stimulate a wide variety of responses.

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William Dotani Feb 24, 2012, 4:23am UTC

I wrote a short verse for the Elderly lady.

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Irina Dimitric Feb 24, 2012, 5:15am UTC

I was also born in March, my daughter was born in March, and my husband and I celebrate March 4 as the date when we decided that we were made for each other!
Happy Birhday to you and your husband and Happy Anniversary, too. What a fantastic month for us all!

Great prompt, Andrea.

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 9:09am UTC

Hey! March 4 is our anniversary! :-) I love that day. :-) When's your birthday? Mine is the 14th, his is the 11th.

Irina Dimitric Feb 24, 2012, 6:30pm UTC

Incredible! I'll raise a cup of tea ( I don't drink alcohol ) to your happiness on March 4. I love that date, too. My birthday is the 18th. You are both Pisces, a great match.

Connie C. Feb 28, 2012, 8:45pm UTC

Your month of March sounds like our month of December.

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jeanne clarke Feb 24, 2012, 7:27am UTC

The Ides of March .....and St. Patrick's Day! Here's looking to a pint of the green stuff! (shamrock laced beer!).

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 9:11am UTC

Ha ha ha! Yesterday I had an old lady yell at me for not choosing better. "You shouldn't have gotten married in the same month as your birthdays!" I felt like telling her to go jump in a lake. Respectfully, of course. :-) We had five days to work with where my military family and HIS military family would be able to make it to the wedding. One of the dates was a month later - WAY too soon, and the rest were so far in the distance we didn't want to even think about them. We settled for the one in March. :-)

jeanne clarke Feb 24, 2012, 9:20am UTC

I've had people get on me for getting married in June because it's a traditional wedding month! You marry when it works - I wanted my birthday but it happened to be my husband's anniversary with his ex-wife - May 15 - and the church wasn't free any of the other May Sundays, esp with Mother's day, too. I'm not a big traditionalist, but for sake of convenience picked June 2. A June bride - me, of all people lol....but there you go - I wanted to get married on my birthday.

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 9:57am UTC

Ha ha! Yeah, there's nothing wrong with getting married in June. :-) I always wanted to be married in August - I LOVE the summer and my favorite flowers are in bloom then. I'd always been terrified about getting married when it was cold cause I hate being cold. March 4 last year ended up being REALLY warm, and my flowers were beautiful. Ha ha. It worked out. :-)

Greg Schiller Feb 24, 2012, 12:37pm UTC

My wife and I were married last August. We had already been married for twelve years - but not in the church. So we got married in the church - the church without A/C on a 100 degree day. Still, a good time was had by all, except for Dudders (my grandson), who spilled his bottle of bubble fluid - which was a disaster.

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 6:04pm UTC

Ha ha! Awesome. And no AC? That's AWFUL! I'll bet the inside of that building was worse than being directly in the sun! And bless your grandson's heart. :-)

Joann B. Feb 26, 2012, 10:27pm UTC

What possible business could it be of someone, to object to when you chose to marry? I say 'pooh on her, and the horse she rode in on' and 'Yay, you!'

jeanne clarke Feb 27, 2012, 7:23am UTC

It was probably "war horse"...lol.

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Chrissie Klinger Feb 24, 2012, 9:29am UTC

I have 3 siblings and they all have March birthdays! My sister is March 14th...popular date it seems!!!!! My husband and son have April birthdays and that is when our anniversary is; we went to Niagra Falls for our honeymoon.....interesting how we all are linked together in some way.

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 9:57am UTC

Yay for March 14! :-) It's also Albert Einstein's birthday. :-)

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karen vaughan Feb 24, 2012, 11:13am UTC

I know loads of people in March who celebrate birthdays. My stepson Shea shares his birthday with Elton John Mar 25th. Shea -30 Elton is 65-My mother in laws is on the 28th and my niece is expecting her baby on the 26th- we hope she will be 2 days late to catch Smiley Grammas birthdday--I have other friends too numerous to mention i guess I have to hit the dollar store for cards.

Andrea Pearson Feb 24, 2012, 6:04pm UTC

March is a great month! :-)

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Greg Schiller Feb 24, 2012, 12:32pm UTC

I know the red-headed guy in the picture above. He is the business analyst who has been bugging me for months to update some completely useless documentation. It is not a like anyone would ever read the documents, it is more like a task that is on his list that he wants to check off by having me do extra work.

(How many days until I retire?)