Recently, The Library of Congress set up a Flickr site<\/a> for their old photos, and they provide a fascinating glimpse of the past. This photo of a glam 40’s chick, putting rivets on a bomber makes me smile. Her lipstick matches her nail polish, her eyebrows are plucked to within an inch of their lives, and she’s wearing a huge ring, but that doesn’t mean our girl isn’t working<\/i>.<\/p>\n See? You could write a fifty word flash fiction piece about her right now.<\/p>\n Randomly<\/b>: Wow! MIT<\/a> has free online college courses!? Who knew? (Well, apparently mental_floss<\/a>, and a hat tip to them for the great link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you heard about photojournalist Robin Bowman’s new photography book, It’s Complicated: The American Teenager on All Things Considered, then you’ll really enjoy the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2251\/2179038448_f6574e780c.jpg?v=0\")
<\/a>I have to admit that as a writer I love looking at photographs of people. There are so many stories behind the eyes that stare out at you challengingly or with visible happiness or melancholy. It was a treat to hear last summer that Tamora Pierce<\/a> uses acres of National Geographics and fashion magazines for the same purpose — just the pictures of the people. The human face can be fascinating, and can provide a needed bump to the imagination when a writer gets stuck.<\/p>\n