Isn’t it wonderful when you don’t have to spend
ages trying to invent a clever plot and interesting characters because you
suddenly find a ready-made story right in front of you? One such serendipitous
moment happened while I was doing a spot of late night shopping, and it didn’t
take much creativity on my part to turn it into this 75-word story for
Paragraph Planet.
With much thanks to an anonymous, middle-aged shelf stacker
and Aretha Franklin!
Have you ever been given a story?
7 comments:
All the time! Often it's something a friend tells me.
that is excellent; I love it when that happens. Great story too.
I've based a few stories on real events. Often though I've had to work quite hard to make them seem plausible.
I think all my story ideas are sparked by something I've seen or heard in the real world, but I know what you mean, Patsy. Truth is often a bit too strange for fiction!
What a lovely moment that must have been! I woke up with a story in my head the other day - does that count?
Of course it does, Lizy.
Great post, Linda. You must have come out of the shop with a spring in your step! My latest story was inspired by a newspaper article about a man who only got to know how his father felt about him by finding letters he'd written to him after he'd died.
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