The garbage dump that sparked a story idea for me

I was at the county dump last Saturday in Springfield waiting to unload a truck bed of broken concrete and old lumber. While I was sitting there, I watched three raccoons team up to drag a whole bag of fast food trash out of a bin. One of them even stopped and looked back at me like I was the one causing trouble. It hit me that this would make a perfect scene for a post-apocalyptic survival story where animals have learned to work together against humans. Has anyone else gotten a writing idea from a weird real-life animal moment like this?

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terry_bailey357d ago

That raccoon stare is pure story fuel, did you write that scene yet?

the_mary7d ago

A friend of mine had a raccoon stare at her through the window while she was writing and she nearly deleted the whole chapter.