I know many smart people who have a tough time filling pages with words, sentences and paragraphs in order to express their thoughts.  I’ve also learned that a picture is often worth at least a thousand words and that a short video can be worth millions.  Here’s an online application that facilitates combining a picture with a few words in order to express a thought. In my estimation, this is a very special online application that deserves to be well known and widely used by learners everywhere!

PicLits is a brilliant application that is elegant in its simplicity.  The site’s tagline says it offers “inspired picture writing”, and that’s exactly what it does.  You pick a picture, and then add words to express a thought. You can drag and drop words from listed words that are categorized according to parts of speech.  Or, you can compose your words “freestyle”, as illustrated below by my first attempt.

Terry Friedlander, the site’s creator, intentionally encourages the development of creative writing skills in a section of the website entitled “Learn It”.  As a registered user, you can save your ‘piclits’ to a gallery and receive feedback.  It’s also easy to share your creative expressions with a link or to embed it elsewhere.

My PicLit above is a simple screenshot.  Below, I’ve embedded a couple of my favourites from the gallery to demonstrate how the clickable embedding feature works. You need to click on the image to view all of the poetry.

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

See the full PicLit at PicLits.com