Ideas

One of the questions I get asked the most is "where do you get your ideas?"... 

My answer is always "from everyday things that make me wonder 'what happens next?'"

Here's a good example and a challenge for any wanna-be writers out there. 

I was walking to the great Bank Street Bookstore yesterday and passed this abandoned, and pretty expensive looking, running shoe on the sidewalk, outside a different bookstore and next to a big, black empty SUV. 

How did it get there?

Who left it? 

Didn't they notice they only had one shoe?

What happened?

What happens next?