Writing Ideas

Use any of these as the beginning of a story!

• I have one green eye and one brown eye. The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.
• The ghost was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
• "Be nice," my father said. "After all, he's your brother."
• I am the most famous twelve-year-old in the United States.
• Jason had never felt so foolish before, and he hoped he'd never feel so foolish again.
• If somebody didn't do something soon, they were going to have a catastrophe on their hands.
• Alison was the runt of the family, born small and ill-favored, and by the time she was thirteen, she was still small and ill-favored.
• It was a witchy house: the low-slung roof; that quiet gray pain; those squinting, shuttered windows; and the empty porch rocker that rocked, rocked, rocked day and night.
• The first time I saw Stephen, he pained a hex sign on my right arm, and I couldn't move my fingers for three hours.
• Ms. Fleming's wig had gone missing.