The Pocketbook of Prompts: 52 Ideas for a Story

Ideas for stories are everywhere. They're in archaeological digs, scientific hoaxes, fairy tales, peculiar laws, the lonely hearts, identity theft, and football matches. They're hidden in snapshots of other lives, and in images glimpsed only for a moment. They're in your own emotions: lust, envy, rage, love, a desire for life everlasting. Grand contemplations, monumental events, and the moments that go almost unnoticed all offer up sparks to your creativity.

This collection brings together the absurd, the illustrious, and the ordinary. It challenges you to invent and to look at language for the remarkable tool that it is. Relearn it as something that provides you with the ability to create anything in this or any other world, and take concepts with which you thought you were familiar and make of them something new - something fresh, unexpected, unique, and your own.