All pictures are worth ten-thousand words...at least.

As a writing teacher, I was always asking my students to bring in funny or favorite family photographs, and we'd use these to inspire memoir or snapshot writing. Sometimes my writers wrote their best descriptions based on their own photographs, but sometimes my young writers wrote brilliantly based on the photographs of other students.

For whatever reason, pictures inspire great writing, be they your pictures or someone else's. On this page, I share some favorite family pictures in hopes they might inspire writing from you.