Use the Story Starters below for entries into your Writer’s Notebook, or to begin a Low Stakes piece of writing. Keep your eyes out for new Story Starters, or if you would like to submit your own Story Starter, send it in by clicking here.
- This morning, six impossible things happened before breakfast …
- It was seven minutes after midnight …
- It was a dark and stormy night …
- The sounds of screams woke me …
- You never really know what you’re made of until you’re faced with an impossible choice …
- There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire …
- After the awards ceremony, I realised that everyone thought I was a hero …
- This has to get the award for worst holiday ever …
- I always knew this moment would arrive …
- I was six years old the first time I disappeared …
- Why did I bother getting out of bed this morning?
- It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
- It was a wrong number that started it …
- I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story …
- We slept in what had once been the gymnasium …
- If it hadn’t been for my ball of bubblegum …