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Try a Story Idea Prompt
So if you are stuck for ideas, here are some prompts:

    * What was your favorite childhood pet?
    * Where was your most memorable vacation?
    * What topic most inspired you in grade school?
    * Where is a place in the world you'd like to visit?
    * What is the most adventurous thing you have done?
    * Who was an influential authority in your subject discipline?
    * Or just describe a collection of things such as
          o Five attributes of a great writer
          o The top technology gadgets of the future
          o Most important discoveries in your field
          o Favorite cars, vegetables, flowers, tools
          o Collection of things that don't belong

Why is it I have such a hard time writing down stories?

"Lisp is a big and deep language. This quickstart is only intended to get you introduced to very basic concepts in Lisp, not any of the really cool stuff Lisp does. As such it's geared to how to do C in Lisp, not good functional style (no closures, no macros). It's enough to get you up to speed so you can more easily understand a good book (ANSI Common Lisp, etc.) The quickstart also does not teach many functions -- you'll need to root around in the ANSI Common Lisp index and play with some of the functions there. The quickstart also shows you how to manipulate the command line, and to load and compile files. "

"hyper-book providing a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language. Apart from a bookful of text, it contains plenty of example programs, and an environment to try them out and play with them. The book is aimed at the beginning programmer ― people with prior programming experience might also get something out of it, but they should not read chapters 2 to 5 too closely, because most of the concepts discussed there will probably be nothing new to them. Do make sure you read the end of the first chapter, which has some essential information about the book itself. The book is freely available, and may be used (as a whole or in parts) in any way you see fit, as long as I am credited as the original author. A copy of the book for off-line reading can be downloaded as a zip file, and a more easily printable version can be found here. >> Start Reading"

"we have a decentralized, fairly democratic means of uniquely identifying stuff. Anyone with some web space can create a URI to represent something (our RDF resource—see above) in a way that can be understood right across the web. There doesn’t need to be a web page at your URI, but it’s good practice to have a human- and/or machine-readable description of what the URI represents at the other end. It is the nature of the web that anyone can say anything about anything, so you can’t control what other people say about your URI, but by publishing a description at your URI, you can at least have the final word on what you intended it to mean. By making all data the same shape, and making the things the data describes uniquely identifiable across the web, RDF makes your code and your data more portable, more interoperable, and more useful. How to use it Publishing data in your HTML with eRDF I said before that RDF can be written in lots of different ways; one of those ways is eRDF. It’s a simple way of embedding RDF statements into HTML by using attributes such as id, class, rel, and href in a spec"