Choose a date by using your mother's age when she gave birth to you, your favourite month of the year in numerical form, and the year when some big historical event happened. Mine would be:
23/09/1066
a) Use the date you've come up with as the title of your story, making it an important element in the plot. It doesn't have to be connected to the historical event you thought of, but it could be - you could tell part of a well-known historical event from an unusual viewpoint perhaps. Or the historical event might be the background to a domestic drama or a romance, or the cover for a crime.
b) Use the eight numbers you came up with as a bank account number, and write a story which involves that account - a theft, something that happens to the owner of the account, something nefarious or unusual that the account is used for. Alternatively, it might be the reference number for some other sort of important thing - a safe, a safety deposit box, a digital passcode. You could shorten or lengthen the number as you please.
c) Turn it into a telephone number and make that an important element in your story. Whose number is it? Why is it significant in your story?
d) think up other ways a number could be the inspiration for a story. A dress size, someone's Body Mass Index or weight, a specific wedding anniversary, a house/apartment number, a lottery number, the height of something, a passport number, a NI number, a teacher's DES number, a TV/Radio channel or frequency, a lucky number, the number of petals on your favourite flower, the number of countries you've lived in...etc.. Incorporate this into a story or, better still, make it central to your story.
HAPPY WRITING!
No comments:
Post a Comment