Story Idea

So, I had a thought. Since my real blog is attached to my profile on this blog, if you clicked on my name in a comment I made to come here, you probably saw the link to my other blog. Anyways, the last few posts I've done on there are concerning the garden my husband and I just planted. So, gardening has been on my mind a lot lately. Especially the last few really warm days we had. All I did those days was work outside. So, I feel kind of like an old lady when I talk to people about my garden. I was in bed last night, knowing that I need to come up with a story idea, and trying to think about what I would like to write about. Well, the one thing on my mind so often lately is gardening. So, I though I should write about gardening, specifically a little old lady gardening. I liked the surprise ending in the frog story that I wrote so much, that of course I have to have a surprise ending. I've decided to write about this little old lady, mid-seventies, early eighties, who gardens in the spring time. I will write about what she does and how she feels, and probably about how it makes her think about the past. For the conflict, I will have someone younger, most likely one of her children, trying to tell her that she is too old to live alone. I'll write everything that she does to illustrate how she is right to argue that she is just fine on her own. Then at the end I will describe her giving in to living elsewhere, and when they drive away she will see her unkempt yard (with no garden) that hasn't been weeded in years. This of course, will imply to the readers that she is senile and imagined everything that happened in the story and really should not be alone.