/imagine — A Daily Writing Challenge
Inspiration from discarded images.
I am an avid user and fan of Midjourney, a premier website, and technology for creating generative images. Many of the visuals that I use in my everyday stories are generated as opposed to photographed. The process is quick and I feel as though I have some level of control over their creation.
That said, I generate perhaps 4–5 times more images than I use during the creation and iteration process… many of them turn out to be not quite what I had envisioned, and I was thinking that it was an incredible waste, not to use more of these images. So, in order to save them from The Island of Misfit AI-Generated Images, I have created a writing challenge for myself.
Please allow me to introduce /imagine — A Daily Writing Challenge. A motivator for me to write something every day for the next three weeks*. I will choose a previously generated but rejected Midjourney image that is gathering dust, as inspiration for a short story, poem, or observation.
( Images created by the author in Midjourney )
I do not envision any overarching theme or connective tissue between the stories, other than the fact they will all be inspired by; or directly related to, a rejected AI-generated image. I intend to start with the four images above, as the inspiration for my first four stories.
This way, I will feel better by recycling those formerly undesired images and keep a fresh reason to keep me writing. I will prepend the /imagine —designator to the beginning of each story title, and add a link back to this article in the sub-title, for those who wish to learn more about this challenge.
Feel free to follow along on my progress, I have no idea how this will go but would love, as always, to hear any of your feedback and/or comments.
Also, if you would like to take on this challenge or if you are inspired to write an alternate story based upon any of these images yourself; please feel free to use any of the images from this challenge and let me know. I will link to it from within my original challenge story.
Thank you for reading!
Here are links to the first two stories of the challenge…
* Three weeks is my initial thought, if it works out I will go longer. I have just over 11,400 unused images at the ready!
† For those of you who don’t know, the way to begin an image generation prompt in Midjourney, (actually, it’s within Discord), is to type /imagine
