Story Inspiration Sundays

I blog about inspiration both here and over at Book View Cafe. Feel free to comment either here or there!

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Starting sometime next week, I’m going to be given writing assignments.

Why am I turning away from the novel, you may ask.

Good question!

Come February 2014, I’m attending the anthology workshop, listed here. For this workshop, I must write the stories ahead of time.

What are the stories, you may ask. What am I supposed to be writing?

I haven’t a clue. Won’t know what the first story is supposed to be about until I receive the first assignment.

Am I worried about coming up with a story idea? Not really. Here are some of the tricks I use for story inspiration for this sort of challenge.

Suppose that our challenge is, say, science fiction car trips.