TIL my best story idea came from a mistake on a shipping manifest

Honestly, last Tuesday I was sorting a mislabeled pallet at work and found a box of glass hummingbird feeders meant for a garden center in Portland. It got me thinking about a character who receives a mysterious, wrong delivery that changes their life. Ngl, I wrote a whole outline about a reclusive clockmaker getting a crate of live tropical butterflies instead of his ordered parts. Has anyone else gotten a solid prompt from something totally mundane at their day job?

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lily5111mo agoTop Commenter

That's actually how most of my bad ideas start.

barnes.morgan1mo ago

Honestly, that's the only way I learn anything.