Story starters
Use these story starters to kick-start your muse. We’ll write for 15 minutes.
- The wind shrieked through the passageway but there were no doors or windows open in the house.
- Above them, in a reaching gum, a kookaburra rested on a skinny limb, its blockish head still as it surveyed the creek beyond.
- She dropped the towel, padded to where the soft breakers gargled their dying breaths, and without a look over her shoulder high-stepped into the cold grip of the ocean.
- On the dusty mantelpiece there was a photograph of the family but each individual’s face had been cut out.