Choose an old photograph you have from your childhood.
Make a digital copy of it.
Have a hard copy of the picture as well.
Show the picture to your partner.
Tell the story the picture shows: what, where, who, why.
Then tell the story behind the picture; the story that cannot be told from simply looking at it.
Find the deeper meaning that the picture symbolizes or represents for you.
What is the story hiding behind the picture that needs to be written about?
After discussing your ideas with your partner, free write one page.
Describe in detail the real story behind the picture: the one that is important for you to tell.
Using several descriptive adjectives before a noun
narrow dirt track
deep, dark, cool shadows
Listing Predicate Adjectives
The path was corked, rocky and potholed
His eyes were small and dark and stared in opposite directions
Personification
The path was sloping downhill and it seemed to be heading for a patch of dark trees a little below them.