 Short Stories: February 17, 2010 Issue [#3556] |
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Story Ideas
At a loss for a story idea? Try the news.
While it would be difficult to write a story that details a life story exactly, sometimes news about the crazy things people do can spark a story idea. Family anecdotes aren't always as charming and cute as the family thinks it, but with a little inspiration, they could become a character idea or a scene for your story.
Just searching the words "crazy news" or "bizarre news" can garner some pretty wacky stories. Like the off-broadway show about the bubble man. Not an older version of the bubble-boy but a perfomer who uses soap bubbles. Who knew a person could make a living with bubbles? How about the story of a frightened, shivering dog which was rescued after floating 75 miles on an ice floe down Poland's Vistula River and into the Baltic Sea. Or the man accused of stealing and swallowing a two-carat diamond ring worth about $20,000 who ends up coughing it up in the police station.
Need a character name? Some new celebrity baby names for 2009 were: Sparrow, Mars Merkaba, twins Jesse James and Journey Jette, Otis Tobias, Satyana, Atlas, Stella Luna, twins Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos, Kenzo, and a daughter named Vita. Give you some ideas?
So next time you say, "I can't think of anything to write!” try the news.
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Excerpt: The year we moved to the suburbs of Atlantic City was the happiest time in our lives. My eighteen-year old twin sisters, Betty Sue, and Suzi Que, blondes with brains, great bodies and good looks, were making big bucks as waitresses at Harrah’s. I was making good money driving an airport limo, and meeting lots of celebs and hot chicks. Now, I’m no Prince Charming, but at twenty-two with a Porsche and a pocketful of change, I didn’t need ads in the Personals. And our daddy, Big Diddle, a very talented veteran card counter, was hauling wheelbarrows of money away from the blackjack tables.
Excerpt: Kaylee stopped and grabbed at the back of her pants. “Those mosquitos are so bad--I just got bit on my butt! That’s two times now!”
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Excerpt: High school was one of the memorable chapters of my life. I’ve had so many first times during those times. The most remarkable was the first time I fell in love.
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Excerpt: When I smelled the all too familiar scent of his body, it was early, while I waited for the coffee to brew. I was turning on my computer. I knew something had changed in the air between us. Almost two-thousand five hundred miles of space had shifted and it spoke to me - an olfactory message ran through me as fiercely as the winds that blew across Lake Champlain.
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Excerpt: Little Johnny never went into the basement. His parents had never told him no—had, in fact, tried to get him down there many times. It was the basement itself that kept him out. It was more of cellar than a basement, really: dirt walls lit by a single bare bulb; a dirt floor; a decayed wooden door, always locked, set into the back wall. The rickety steps leading down were only just usable, with the nails and screws coming loose everywhere, and the old, rotting wood beginning to crumble.
Excerpt: "It's my wife, Estelle. She's been acting kind of cagey lately. I am afraid she is mixed up in some unsavory business. I want you to follow her and find out what it is."
Excerpt: One piece that won’t get rotated, though, is the antique cut-glass pitcher my mother-in-law gave me. It is incredibly beautiful, even though it has a hairline crack down the side, and there are a few small chips on the top. You really can’t see the flaws, and I can’t use it because it would leak, but it is still beautiful as a display piece. What is more beautiful, though, is the story of how I got it. Really, how my mother-in-law got it.
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Excerpt: Were they asked, Those who did not know him well, which was just about everyone, would tell you he was one of the meanest men they had every met. They would warn you, “Stay away from that one. Draw a wide berth. He’ll kill you quick as look at you.”
Excerpt: My mother died yesterday. At 1:04 pm. That’s when the paramedics pronounced her, but she was dead well before that. She was cold when I found her. Her head had rolled back and to the left. Dark brown eyes stared straight ahead and a spot of drool crusted on the side of her gaping mouth.
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This month's question: How do you use real life stories in your writing?
Last month's question: What natural elements are your favorites to use in writing?
Bakhtawar  replied: Hello! My personal favourite is wind, it can be used in so many different ways! as well as fire as it symolizes most of the human acts. passion, love, hate, desire to achieve something, desire to prove what you really are to the world.
And thank you very much for these informative letters, they are of HUGE help........Rythemic Beats!
NanoWriMo2018 Into the Earth  responded: Symbolism is really a great way to strengthen your writing. thanks for this helpful NL!
andrewyue  sent a reply: Wind is good for me,because I am in the mainland, in my place, there is not exsit storm, so wind is good. The air is nesesary to me, because I want to survive, but the air in my place is not good, because the air is very dry. In my place there is a big earthquake happen last year, higher than Haiti.
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