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Seeds 5
  • Minister mounts hate campaign against herself
  • Biocontrol wars – new species runs riot with no natural predators
  • ‘Gissa job. I can do that’
  • Inspired by art
  • Away they go
  • But Fluffy wouldn’t harm anyone …
  • Conman fakes friend’s suicide note to pose as secret gay lover
  • We apologise for the delay, due to an unforeseen circumstances …
  • No Third Man chase scenes, here, then?

 
 

Seeds 4
  • Chemistry explosion at school parents’ evening
  • Man cons fans with fake concert tickets
  • Wedding videos – a tonic for independent cinemas
  • What are the ramifications of social networking?
  • Dragons and black dogs, and a rather peculiar ghost
  • Walter Mitty was not alone
  • Going on a witness protection programme
  • To the letter of the law, but not the spirit
  • Has anyone seen the missing carnation?
  • How a surgeon changed my life – unexpectedly
  • Want to know more about Nobel Prize winners? 
 

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What Are Seeds? (Introduction)

grow85-115.jpgAre you stuck for an idea? This semi-regular column contains ideas to trigger more ideas and is guaranteed to get you thinking about storylines, characters and scenes.

 

Seeds 3
  • Round the world yacht family saved by ocean liner
  • India's one-man crimewave shot dead
  • Bank fights customer over telephone banking password
  • After 15 bank raids, gang nets only £500,000 and is then shot
  • What I did in my gap year …
  • Waters open up a hidden past
  • Swim with dolphins
  • Opposites
  • What if …?
 
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