Hey @negativer - you could refer to this material - https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-secret-to-good-writing-its-about-objects-not-ideas/263113/
The goal I'm trying to achieve here is to provide an opportunity for you to write about objects and use these objects to create a certain story (this time the topic was predetermined and you have 3 choices).
In a future assignment we would try suggesting only the topic and you would pick the object by yourself. I think that would be even easier, but now the goal was to stick to certain objects.
Good article! Lots of good info there. I see what you're saying. This exercise kind of forces us to write about physical, tangible objects, rather than kind of loose, nebulous ideas and concepts.
Absolutely! I have to admit that I should have exchanged the places of the predefined ideas and the images of the objects. It would make a bit more sense presented this way. I may do it in some of the next challenges - if I got it right, people need 6-8 weeks of exercising to learn writing about objects. So, just one assignment definitely won't be enough.