Three Story Starters
Story Starters can be a fun sort of exercise to play with. The idea is this: someone gives you a phrase or sentence, and you start a story (or other piece of writing) with it, free-writing and free-associating to go to your own unique place from there. Although one term for this is “story starter”, you don’t have to necessarily use the phrase or sentence verbatim, nor do you have to use it as a literal start to your piece of writing. You could introduce it part-way through. The story starter also might be an object, a piece of description, a bit of scenery or dialogue, or some other random fraction of prompt that you build a story around.
Think of it like having a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. It might indeed be an edge or corner piece, or it might turn out to be a random piece from the middle of the puzzle, and you build the puzzle out around it.
Today, here are three random starters to choose from:
- “Please, close the door. I don’t want to let them out.”
- “That book, over there. That’s the dangerous one.”
- “She sat down on the couch carefully, as though trying not to disturb anything.”
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If you really want a challenge, try to work all three into the same piece of writing!
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