Draft as many story starters as you can, in one sitting, based on this image.

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Ever had the feeling that someone was watching you? Well, you are that person watching the person who has that feeling.

Where are you?
Who are you and who are you watching?
For what purpose?
Is something about to happen that will be shown on the evening news?

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Spend the weekend with your hero. Your hero, or heroine has a secret. Find out what it is.

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You anticipate a wonderful weekend in which you meet 3 cats that remind you of people you have met in your past.

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There is terrible frustration in the ACME Hammock Making Department. Why?

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Write political campaign speech. The election is tomorrow. The candidate’s leading interest is on maintaining the stability of cheese markets.

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Make a list of the food found in the refrigerator belonging to your neighbor who lives five doors down from you. Use that content list as a springboard into a story.

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Se what you can do with this as a story starter:

Today was the day that Marilyn was getting her stitches out. Across town, at another clinic, Ben would be fitted for a prosthetic leg. It was a sunny October day.

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Mario Vargas Llosa won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/books/08nobel.html?ref=nobel_prizes

In an interview with The Times in 2002, Mr. Vargas Llosa said that it was the novelist’s obligation to question real life. “I don’t think there is a great fiction that is not an essential contradiction of the world as it is,” he said. “The Inquisition forbade the novel for 300 years in Latin America. I think they understood very well the seditious consequence that fiction can have on the human spirit.’”

Give some examples of seditious consequences caused by whatever acts you might think of in the next few moments. Write them from the point of view of the human heart.

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October has memories. What are some of them?

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