Your Life As Art
Start with "I remember" or "I don't remember" and write for 15 minutes. If you can't recall something exactly, make it up! Feel free to change anything if you sense a story shaping up.
Still Life
Write a story from the point of view of a household object (e.g. a coffee machine – Gaie's would be complaining of overwork…)
Get a Life
Borrow a bit of someone else's life. Keep your trusty notebook handy to collect any interesting or odd snippets of overheard conversation, and take one or more as a starting point for a story.
Or use this amazing piece of internet art, created by Jonathan Harris, to select a random section of a blog. Try it in "Madness" mode and click on circles until you get a sentence that inspires you. Or try "Montage" mode for a combination of words and pictures.
Warning 1: The program selects text from blogs that contain the words "I feel". Some contain (very!) adult material.
Warning 2: Playing with this program can eat your time.
Picture Seeds
Here's our monthly batch of picture prompts. Use one (or if you're showing off, all) of the pictures to inspire you. Write for 15 minutes and see where it takes you.
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