Writing Exercise 1: All he wanted was to buy coffee...

Here's an exercise I decided to use today to jumpstart my writing brain. :-) The idea is to create the beginning of stories from the line "All he wanted was to buy coffee..." I'm not going to dive into writing a script about it for now. You could go the extra mile and actually write up stories beginning with the line. Turn of censorship and you'd be amazed with what you can drum up. :-D

1. All he wanted was to buy coffee; he did not expect to land in the hospital after a car ran into him that morning.
2. All he wanted was to buy coffee. But when he reached home, he found the bodies of his wife and kids scattered in the living room.
3. All he wanted was to buy coffee, instead he was hired as a spokesperson for that label!
4. All he wanted was to buy coffee, never in his wildest dreams did he expect to win the 1,000,000th person to shop at the Hypermarket!
5. All he wanted was to buy coffee, not being chased by a pack of wild dogs up the tree!
6. All he wanted was to buy coffee, instead he got served with a notice of bankruptcy.
7. All he wanted was to buy coffee but the sale signs lured him to buy something more than that.
8. All he wanted was to buy coffee for tomorrow - now he's being tied to his bed in nude by 3 hookers he picked up along the way.
9. All he wanted was to buy coffee, but passing the bank was a big mistake when he was taken as hostage!
10. All he wanted was to buy coffee for a nice quiet morning... which ended when he met his mother-in-law at the store.
11. All he wanted was to buy coffee and complete some office work, not ending up with a baby!
12. All he wanted was to buy coffee, now he brings home a son he never knew he had!
13. All he wanted was to buy coffee at the store down the block, not being chased by a mob accusing him of being a peeping-tom!
14. All he wanted was to buy a coffee, instead he got the bullet on the day the war began.
15. All he wanted was to buy coffee but his girlfriend leaves him after she finds him smooching with her twin sister at the store! (wtf?!)
16. All he wanted was to buy coffee. So when he met Sophia in the line, their romance kicked off. That was 60 years ago.
17. All he wanted was to buy coffee, he didn't know he entered a kink pub instead!
18. All he wanted was to buy coffee when the old store owned died when giving him back his change!
19. All he wanted was to buy coffee, not being involved in a protest rally!
20. All he wanted was to buy coffee, but his car died on him in the middle of the road to nowhere.

Come up with as many scenarios as you can. It could be interesting! :-D As for me, I gotta start working on some proposals.

 

Cheers,

 

Aldric