# 3.1.1 Reading work in progress

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Remember that you can get your ideas for future stories from all sorts of sources.

For example:

- the radio, as you’ve done with your recent story
- a newspaper article or headline
- a fragment of speech overheard
- a childhood memory
- a smell
- an image
- story prompts from the Prompt Cloud PDF.

Reflect on the following questions, with regard to your radio story:

- Did you think what you wrote was a story?
- What made it a story?
- Did it have a structure?
- How did you go about portraying characters?

We will talk more about what makes up a story, but for now think of it as a narrative with a beginning, middle and end.

OpenLearn - Start writing fiction: characters and stories
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