I actually had a story this morning. Problem was, it was well over 300 words, a lenrth in which it had not really gone anywhere, the set-up didn't work and I couldn't think of a proper ending. Being out all afternoon, and at a concert this evening, I thought there was no chance of getting something on paper.
On arriving home this evening, I was faced with the choice of wasting my time hacking something about that would never work or not entering. And then I remembered that I'd had an odd plant in a very early version** of my WiP1. There was no real story attached to the plant in that old WiP version: the plant was there as a bit of literally colourful description (which is why it was removed from the WiP perhaps as long as a decade ago).
So all I needed was a setting, a narrator, a story.... (Hmmm. I wish I could produce these things a bit earlier in the month....)
** - Luckily for me -- though not perhaps for those who have to read my entry -- I creat a new file whenever I do an edit on a WiP (hence the thousands of files for a mere 4 WiPs), so the description of the plant was still on my computer. Phew!
