Where do ideas for written pieces – short or long – come from? Here are some sources of mind-stretching inspiration…
Shower thoughts
This Twitter feed is full of ideas ironic, humorous and just plain off the wall. Some examples:
- It’s weird that a microphone, a phone, and a megaphone aren’t just different sizes of the same thing
- It’s amazing how many superheroes are also great at sewing
- Saying “you’re one in a million” is the same as saying “there are about 7000 people just like you”
- Maybe dogs bring back the ball because they think throwing is fun to you
- Taking candy from a baby is actually a responsible thing to do
- Rhinos are just fat unicorns
- The worst part about having a really clever password is not getting to brag about it
- If humans could fly, we’d consider it exercise and never do it
- A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you
- Shoutouts to all the cowboys who rode off into the sunset at the end of the movie, only to set up camp ten minutes later when it gets dark
- You can only buy used mirrors
- Most people are buried in suits, so a zombie apocalypse would be the world’s largest formal event
- When a bird is buried, the worms have their revenge
- Fire engines are actually water engines
- It will be an interesting day when the aliens land and Mr Universe really has to defend his title
- Narcissus would probably be thrilled to hear that he has a flower and a psychological condition named after him
- There’s some real irony in spelling phonetically with a ‘ph’ and not an ‘f’
Crap Local News
Another Twitter feed consisting of bizarre headlines and news stories:
- Singer struck by plank at Dundee restaurant
- Scared of using dental floss? Here’s how to overcome it
- Man forgot he tried on a hat
- Chicken gangs run riot
- Dog blows up house with can of deodorant
Out of context
Take a line from a book, newspaper article, tweet or other source that makes perfect sense in context, but none outside it. For instance:
- Did we learn anything from Northampton?
- I keep thinking about the pangolins
- I was destined only to have chocolate hammers