... for those writers that are out there.
"Go to
http://www.exploratorium.edu/memory/earlymemory/index.html. Randomly select a "first memory" (all of them were contributed by guests to the site), and use this as the first memory of your character. Begin your story with the memory itself, and see where it takes you."
Source:
http://www.michellerichmond.com/exercise.html