Your home life in a small country village or a large town can stimulate great ideas for writing
Finding ideas for writing in your home life might seem unlikely to you. After all, for most of us, our home lives are fairly safe, secure and comfortable. Writing about your home life might, therefore, initially appear boring, uninteresting and uninspiring.
However, relationships are the cornerstones for huge bodies of fiction writing – not least the ever popular television soaps – and the strong relationships in your home life, perhaps even skeletons suitably disguised and rearranged, can provide excellent ideas for writing and story telling material.
Our home lives shape the people we are. We all have home lives and our desire to look into the lives of others means your home life could provide you with an idea for writing a story that could run and run.
Talking to older members of your family can be a good place to start and might produce surprisingly interesting stories. Were your parents or grandparents in any war? Did your mother have previous relationships before your father? Was your father quite a ‘Jack the Lad’ before he found your mother? How did people go out and find relationships ‘in the old days’? How do you feel about all the stories you have been told? Mould and alter the experiences so they can’t be traced back and your story might unfold surprisingly quickly.
Has your family got a very strong friendship with another family? How do these families interact with each other? Are there rivalries or jealousies? What if …?
Imagine your ideal family. Would it be large or small, wealthy or poor, high achieving or living the simple life?
If your interest is science fiction (sci-fi), how would it feel to be part of an alien family living on another planet or in another universe? What would happen if your alien family met human beings? Would the families be friends or enemies?
Of course, the objective is not merely to copy the stories that people in your family can tell but instead to use them as the foundation for a writing idea that you imagine and create yourself. The secret is to use your researches into your family relationships as a starting point for your writing ideas and as a catalyst to stimulate your imagination.
Your home life with all its complex relationships and personal histories is a great place to research and find ideas for writing.
If you would like to read more about ideas for writing you may be interested in my article about using strong feelings to supercharge your writing ideas.
Bye for now
Rob
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