Write a shopping list for your character. What kind of things would they shop for on a weekly basis?
If you want to do more, you can do this for each of the characters that feature in your story or that you have created. Continue on to describe the scene in which the shopping list is being created.
You can make lists for contrasting characters. Imagine both Trump and Obama making a shopping list for the coming week! Or go extreme and write a list for a lady who is obsessed with beauty products or a person who is going away to live off grid in the mountains intending to never coming back! You can make it tragic. Image a character who goes out shopping with his very last 20 dollar.
If you don’t have a story or a character yet, but just want to train your imagination you can also pick historical figures or famous people.
We came across this list of the top 30 overall most significant historical figures that you can pick from.
1 Jesus
2 Napoleon
3 Muhammad
8 Aristotle
11 Henry VIII
13 Elizabeth I
14 Karl Marx
15 Julius Caesar
21 Isaac Newton
22 Charlemagne
23 Theodore Roosevelt
25 Plato
26 Louis XIV
28 Ulysses S Grant
30 Augustus
…and this list of most important impressionist artists
14 Diego Rivera
15 Edvard Munch
16 James McNeill Whistler
20 Georgia O’Keeffe
Of course, you are free to make your own lists! If you are writing with children, it might be fun have them make a list of 20 comic book characters first and I bet they will have a list of 30 Pokémon ready in a couple of minutes.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/30/whos-most-significant-historical-figure
