Writing Challenge - Day 9

The instruction for Day 9 of the 30-Day writing challenge:

Brief: Go to Google.com, and click on the "Image" link on the top left. This will take you to the image search page. Type two words into the search box, and click on the ‘Search’ button. A bunch of pictures will appear. Choose one of them to use as a writing prompt.

When faced with such a general choice, what on earth does one choose? The instruction is ambiguous in that it states “to use as” rather than saying “and use it as a prompt to write a short story, essay, poem, etc.” I took the bull by the horns, and typed the first two random words which came to mind words appearing in the brief, namely “bunch” and “pictures”:

(Above): The Brady Bunch back from 1974, a few years after television broadcasts had just started for us in South Africa.

One could write accounts of our family life 40 years ago, one could research and find out what has happened to your friends and acquaintances from that era (quite time-consuming), or even what happened to some of the Brady Bunch cast members.

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[Brief for Day 10 :   Perhaps the best way to learn about writing is by studying the work of other writers. Today, you will choose a book by a writer you admire. Read a paragraph of this book to get the author's "voice" in your head. Now, try to write your own story (or rewrite a story you have written) the way this author would have written it. Imitate the author's style and the techniques he or she uses... ]