Don’t deign to call yourself a writer then ask people for ideas. Go live life, make some mistakes and write a story about something you know about. Or make it up! Just don’t piggy back off uninspired and uncreative friends. Sigh. The creative underclass will never produce anything interesting if we have to placate these assholes who simply want to add a little pomp and circumstance to the other boring stories their friends tell at bars. Unless your friends are Hemingway don’t steal their story ideas!