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Start a story or a journal entry with any of these prompts:

•It all began when I discovered I could walk up walls.

•Excuse me, but why is there a diamond necklace dangling from your pocket?

•There are two kinds of people in this world: people who _ and people who _____.

•I know they're just trying to be helpful, but it drives me crazy when people _____.

•Whenever things get tough, I have special memories I can focus on, special times when I was especially happy. Write about one such time of your own.

•Inside the suitcase I found only a chocolate bar, a catnip mouse, and a rubber chicken. What did it all mean?

•A battered bugle lay on my bedside table. It had not been there the night before, I was sure of that. I don't even play the bugle.

•On the porch sat what looked like an ordinary cat carrier, but the red eyes gleaming from deep inside definitely did not belong to an ordinary cat.

•Write about something that was purple that should not have been.

•It was so hot (or cold or rainy) that...

•This fall, instead of turning red or yellow or brown, the leaves of the trees turn plaid. Why?

•One day you get a letter from your muse, saying, "Meet me at the ___ at noon." Write about meeting your muse. Where do you meet? Who (or what) is your muse? What does your muse look like? What do you two talk about?

•Having trouble with a story you're working on? Write an interview with the most troublesome character. Find out everything you can about the person.

•A friend gives you a pretty little desk fountain as a present. You plug it in and turn it on, and something very unusual happens...

•Santa is nothing but a mean dictator who lives off the slave labor of elves that he keeps trapped in snow at the North Pole. He is also collecting secret royalties every time his picture is used or a man dresses in a Santa costume.

• Take a famous quote or expression and say it over and over again until it comes out as something else. Now write a story with that new phrase as a title or as the punch line. (For example, "The Road Not Taken," might become "The Rhona Taken" or "The Row Not Taken" and "Last, But Not Least" might become "Blast, But Not East" or "Last Banal Eats.") You can also exchange words in expressions for other words that rhyme with them. (For example "For Dummies books" could be "For Mummies books," or "God Save the Queen" could be "God Save the Teen.") (Shevi)

• Write down as many two word phrases with an adjective and a noun that you can think of. Put the adjectives in one column and the nouns in another. Randomly select one adjective and one noun. Write a story with your new two word phrase as a title. (Shevi)

• Write down something that terrifies you and something you think is adorable. Now write a paragraph about why someone might find the terrifying thing adorable. Write a second paragraph about why someone might find the adorable thing terrifying. Be creative. (Shevi)

• Stories are about conflict. Put two characters with conflicting goals in your story pot and set it to slowly stew. Can't think of a conflict? Start with the sentence, "A character who desperately wants _ is up against _ who won't let him/her have it because..." (Shevi)

• It's said that scent memories are the most intense. Write about a smell from your childhood and how that scent makes you feel. (Shevi)

• I took cover, grabbing anything and everything I could to protect me from whatever she was about to chuck. And then the (Insert a light object; bag of stickers, paper towel, notebook paper, ect) hit me.
• I was speechless. Although I'd known __ all my life, I never knew he, she, they could _______.
• You were just accepted in to your favorite university, but you can not afford it. How do you raise the money for tuition?
• You are on vacation with your friends. They accidentally leave you behind when they stop for gas. Your are unable to get a signal on your cell phone. What do you do?
• Your school looks the same as always from outside. When you walk through the doors something amazing has happen.
• Think of three people from history that lived in different time periods. What would happen if they all met in the same room?
• You finally took the cross-country road trip you always dreamed about. Who was the most memorable person you met? Where and how did you meet?

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