Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.
I get an alert occasionally to share with me inquest findings. A number of these highlight how things can start mundanely but spiral into something entirely different…
Jacob was entering the local supermarket when the automatic door shut on his foot. He lost his balance and he fell.
On hitting the concrete floor he let out primal roar as his hip shattered. The paramedics were called.
Mervyn the security guard tried to wrench the doors open but slid on a lettuce leaf and skidded into Jacob’s foot at such an angle that his ankle bones exploded through his socks. Blood began to ooze over the floor.
Jenni-Leigh, on hearing the yowls of pain grabbed a customer’s bag of nappies and went to help. She tried to soak up the blood with nappies but the widening circle of smeared blood was drying slowly.
Ben had just come off night duty at the local hospital, an intern he felt out of his depth but directed Jenni-Leigh to hold a nappy over the bleeding to try to get it to stop.
Jacob remembered just as he lost consciousness that he had forgotten his wallet and wished he’d stayed home instead.
I write about Stuff 
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