Today I'm out sick from work. Nothing horrible, just a really unhappy stomach. I shouldn't have made those baked jalapenos stuffed with cheese last night.
A day out of sorts or out of your regular routine is a great setting start-off point for a story. Something out of the ordinary is of course one of the very first rules of what makes a good story.
So write a story about someone who takes a sick day, settles down on the couch, maybe watches a television show that they never get to see usually, like the Today Show or Good Morning America. They have the tea and toast or coffee put in place. Maybe they're wrapped in a blanket, still in the 'jamas, or maybe they're surrounded by tissues. The only plan in their head is rest and relax. But those plans are changed or complicated by something.
Did the roommate also call in sick? Now it's two of them on the couch?
Did work call and say they are absolutely needed?
Does the power go out?
Does your character catch a burglar? (ooh, that reminds me of a great novel called, PS Your Cat is Dead)
Does your character decide to go to the doctor, or E.R?
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