Darcy Pattinson has on her blog right now, an idea that seems like all sorts of fun: Found object stories. I've seen found-object art--we had to do some in one of the art classes I took--and I've done found-word poetry, where you either pull words from a hat, or you take a block of non-poetic text and black out words until a poem is left. But I'd never thought of found-object stories.
The way she describes it is like this: go somewhere and observe until twelve unrelated things catch your attention--and then write a story that has all twelve of those things in it, regardless of where they fit together or how weird they are. The point is to get a strange story that surprises you, something you never would have written before.
And I think it's a great idea.
I've always wanted to write short stories about hub caps found on roadsides...I mean, how do they end up there?
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