How to find stories on the streets
If you know how to look for them, you will find them. They are all around you, all the time; you just need to flick a switch to see them.
I’m talking about stories.
If you think about it, everything is a story. Leaving your keys in a locked house. Waiting to meet up with a friend. Getting off late at work and finding out your train is delayed. These are all stories, as mundane as they may be. But they’re only mundane because they have no context. Leaving your keys in a locked house means paying a locksmith to break your locks to get inside, so there’s a chance you were shivering in the cold waiting for the locksmith to arrive. That is a fantastic image, and it makes a believable and relatable story.
But these stories can be found anywhere.
Such as … on the bus. Maybe you overhear a conversation between a man drinking from a bottle of wine and an elderly woman with her groceries. What could these two unrelated people have to say to each other?
Or … in the shopping aisle. Maybe a young mum is struggling to control her son, who keeps spinning the shopping trolley around or adding things to the cart that she’s already said ‘NO’ to.
Or … on the streets.
The streets are my favourite place to find stories. I get more inspiration sitting on…
