As well as the neat categories mentioned below, we had plenty of other ideas from the members of Birmingham Writers Group.
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| Index cards, and if you look carefully you can see yesterday’s credit card bill – for £666 |
Self contained chapter headings
Here are the entries that are irresistible as chapter headings by themselves. If we have the energy, some of them sound like whole novels.
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Mr Clovenhoof…
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has the final word
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versus the Yorkshire Terrier
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is not amused
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went there
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talks to the hand
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makes no excuses
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saves the wrong whale
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sorts his shit out
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Do we call them inspired, random, or just plain odd?
Some of these might be harder to work with. But you never know.
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Mr Clovenhoof…
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hosts ‘Have I got news for you?’
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kicks a pigeon
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and the mystery of the inexpicably cheerful grandmother
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the day of the petulant budgie
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the canonisation of Kevin
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a hangover and an unexplained pot
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the governor of the sands
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and the full English fry-up fandango
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Ben’s wasp goes AWOL
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The flight into eternal trepidation
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The sinister lump in the carpet
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The secret of the china chamber pot
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Who shot the Cuckoo Clock?
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Mrs Flowerdew’s corsets
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The tragedy of Miss Potter’s knickers
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Who Slew the Aspidistra?
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