I've never had a shortage of story ideas, just a shortage of time to actually sit and write the story. I've found that the thought of investing my time in an idea makes only the ones I'm most interested in bubble up to the top. What happens to the other ideas? They just sit around in random notebooks and files on my computer waiting for me.
This brings me to an interesting point. One of the blogs I read for work, TechDirt, pontificates ad nauseum, on the fact that ideas are really only as good as their execution. Of course they are specifically referring to technology and business, but the same principal holds true for story ideas as well. In the spirit of "open source" I will be posting story ideas on my blog. Feel free to take any of them as inspiration for your own work. I might or might not use any of these ideas in the future. Note that my inspiration often comes from articles or snippets of conversation so that's often what you'll see with only a bullet or two of notes about what I found interesting.
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