Idea Seeds! Start your page with any of the following and see where your creative muse takes you:

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Your main character is involved in a traffic incident which isn’t their fault. Write a scene with the dialogue between your character and the person responsible for the incident. For added spice, add a police officer or paramedic to the scene.

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Often writers are given strict guidelines to follow by editors of magazines. This exercise has similar rules! You may write whatever genre you feel comfortable in, perhaps you may even find yourself writing a fictional news story, but you must keep true to the three compulsory elements.

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Your exercise today is to incorporate all of the following words into an article, short story, poem or whatever comes to mind. You must use all of the words (in any order) to complete the exercise, but the context in which they are used is up to you. Think about the words for a few minutes before you start to write and see what pictures come to mind - then see if you can weave them all together into a piece of writing.

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Describe a typical Halloween in your home and neighbourhood.