Photo Plots

How to Write Great Photo-inspired Books and Stories

Non-Fiction - Writing/Publishing
80 Pages
Reviewed on 10/19/2018
Buy on Amazon

This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.

This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page.

This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.

    Book Review

Reviewed by K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite

Photo Plots is a work of instructional literature by author Gloria G. Adams, self described as a guide on ‘How to Write Great Photo-inspired Books and Stories’. Aimed at writers looking for inspiration, this short volume explores the possibilities of being inspired by images and the ways to ‘read’ images and get the most out of them for ideas for stories. With more than sixty photographs to choose from, sample stories attached and plenty of explained methodology, the author takes her audience through the basics of story design and plot planning to produce story lines that are intended to hook readers in the way that the photographs do.

For brand-new writers, I think that Photo Plots: How to Write Great Photo-inspired Books and Stories could be a very useful volume. It does start with the absolute basics of plot and story creation, following a very predictable rise and fall style of narrative that young writers would be taught in school, so the volume definitely covers everything from scratch. The templates and samples here might also help young and/or inexperienced writers to get started in the world of writing with a nurturing hand. For much more experienced writers, the photographs and added resources are intended to be the inspiring part, with the selection of images dynamic enough to cover the standard contemporary genres. Overall, Gloria G. Adams has produced a helpful resource for those new to the writing game that will certainly get brains going and words put on the page.