Forget the guff, I've read the instructions before, just take me there!
Do you need some inspiration? We all do at times and even well published
writers use a variety of 'tricks' to get their imagination flowing.
To help you along (and us as well) we've written this ideas generator. First
it generates a first name, then a last name. This is to get you thinking about
a character. What does he/she look like? How tall? Thin? Fat? Miserable?
Happy?
What does he/she do for a living? What sort of house etc.
Then to make it more interesting, there is a feature that you should try to
include in your piece of prose. It might only be a cigarette but it could be
something more dramatic like a snowstorm.
Lastly, there's the genre you are to write it in. But at all times remember,
the idea is to give you inspiration, if you need to change any part of the
'starters' then do so. It's better that you start writing than puzzling how to
make everything fit.
Remember you'll never write anything without that very important word - the
first one.
