As I mentioned earlier, I’m going to do a little brainstorming session here. I’m going to try to figure out an alternate history scenario seed involving an island for each letter of the alphabet. This is intended in fun, but I find it’s actually a good way to come up with ideas that I can actually turn into reasonable scenarios. Why islands? Well, a lot of key events have occurred in islands, and islands have often been natural laboratories for odd groupings of animals (Madagascar and New Zealand for example.) The rules: 

1.  The island has to play a key role in the scenario.
2.  Only the scenario name has to relate to the letter of the alphabet, not necessarily the island name (extra points if the island name does correspond to the letter I am trying for though)
3. The scenario can involve any period from the era of the dinosaurs or before to the end of World War II. (I don’t do modern AH because I think it inevitably becomes too political for my tastes.)
4. Extra points for Alliterations of the letter. For example: “Cut-off Creodonts of Island California” is cool.
5. Extra points if the scenario title sounds like the title of a bad pulp story. For example, “Subhuman Slave Soldiers of Sardinia” gets extra points as an alliteration and as a potential bad pulp story title.
6. A lot of extra points if I actually come up with a reasonable and developable scenario out of this.
7. Extra points for multiple scenario seeds for a letter.
8. If a scenario has a lot of potential I’ll move it out to its own section, but it still counts.

The Seeds:

1. Japanese don’t attack the Aleutians during World War II. The Aleutians attack was a Japanese feint to draw US forces away from Midway. It didn’t work in the short term because the US read Japanese codes and concentrated on Midway. In the longer term, the Japanese did reap some benefit from occupying the Aleutians, because the US did a major buildup to take back a couple of island that the Japanese occupied. What would have happened if the Japanese had the forces that they sent to the Aleutians at Midway? What would have happened if the US had been able to deploy the resources they put into the Aleutians somewhere else?
2. Andaman Islands larger. The Andaman Islands are off the coast of India. They are ‘oceanic’ islands, which among other things means that they don’t connect with any continent during ice ages. There are fairly large areas of shallow water around the Andamans, and they could have been substantially larger given relatively minor changes in the sea level. The Andamans have been inhabited by humans for a long time—no one is quite sure how long, and Andaman Island natives are one of the last groups of humans to remain in a technologically primitive existence. Making the islands larger would give the natives more room to develop their own distinctive cultures. I can’t think of anything earth-shattering that would come of that to be honest. Can you?
3. Higher Bahamas. If you look at a map of the ocean bottom around the Bahamas, you realize that during ice ages the Bahamas are probably one rather large island, around the size of Cuba. Let’s say that the Bahamas get uplifted slightly toward the end of the last ice age. Assuming that nothing else changes (a pretty major assumption), when the Spanish arrived in the West Indies they would find another large island to exploit, presumably after they conquered Cuba. What effect would that have on the chronology of Spanish conquests? Would they conquer the Bahamas first and then go on to the Aztecs, or would they conquer the Aztecs first? If they went after the Aztecs first, chances are that they would never establish firm control over the Bahamas, because compared to the riches of the mainland the West Indies quickly became a backwater. If another European power (Holland, France, England) controlled this enlarged island, they could do a lot of damage to Spanish treasure fleets. What are some other implications? What kind of animal life would the enlarged island have? Would it be a refuge for animals that became extinct in the mainland of North America? Creodonts? The extinct North American primates? Where would the Indians that settled there have come from? Cuba? Florida? Both?
4. Mussolini bargains for bases in the Balerics. Italy played a major role in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Italian help was essential to the Spanish Nationalists, but the Italians really didn’t get much other than prestige for their efforts. Let’s say that they bargain a little harder with the Spanish Nationalists and end up with air and naval bases in the Baleric Islands south of France. What impact would that have on the course of World War II? How would the Spanish react when Italy entered World War II? Would the bases be used? If yes, how would the British react?
5. Cretans crush German conquest air convoy. The battle for Crete in early 1941 was actually one of the closest run significant battles in World War II. It genuinely could have gone either way based on the actions of battalion commanders and even small groups of individual civilians. The civilians of Crete got out antique hunting rifles and went after the Germans in a big way in the early going of the battle, doing significant damage. Let’s say they kill or capture just the right person and the German airborne invasion collapses early on. The British and Greeks hold on to the island. The Germans probably would not have the capability to try again in the immediate future. That has surprisingly major implications for the rest of the war. I’ll probably explore those implications in a later issue.
6. Spanish Republicans win in the Canary Islands. Now this isn’t all that likely unless the Republicans import some loyal troops before the revolt starts, but let’s say they do. They beat the Nationalists locally and hold on to power in the islands throughout the rest of the Spanish Civil War. In early 1939 the Spanish Republic collapses in mainland Spain, but die-hard Republicans flee to the Canary Islands, along with the fairly substantial Spanish Republican navy. The Spanish Nationalists don’t have the sea power to take the islands by themselves. They would need Italian or German help. If the Germans or Italians started moving in that direction though, the British and French would get rather perturbed to say the least. The Spanish Nationalists would not be willing to let the Republicans hold out on the Canaries indefinitely. They would probably build up their fleet with German and Italian help with an eye toward eventually invading. Let’s say that the issue festers until the fall of France in June 1940. At that point Franco might be strongly tempted to take advantage of British weakness to launch and invasion, presumably with German and Italian help. The British would have to be extremely worried about German or Italian bases in the Canaries. Would they intervene knowing that intervening would probably bring Spain into the war as a full-fledged ally of the Germans? What affect would that have on Gibraltar and the rest of British possessions in the Meditteranean?
7. Corsica conquered by the Italians in 1940. Mussolini wanted Corsica, and actually did briefly take it over in late 1942 after the Germans occupied Vichy France. The Italians held Corsica until late 1943, when the Italians left the war and French troops from North Africa helped a revolt against German occupying forces. Let’s say that Italy does a quick and sneaky grab for Corsica in June 1940, just before the French bow out of the war. The Italians get some troops ashore and they are still holding out there when the armistice is ready to be signed, though they are cut off by superior French/British naval forces. The Italians demand the island, and the French are really not in any position to say no. Does Hitler twist French arms on Italy’s behalf? Do the French go along and give up the birthplace of Napoleon? Is this one humiliation too many—a deal-killer that pushes the French to fight on from their colonies?
8. Dogger banks as an island or islands. The Dogger banks are an extensive area of very shallow water north of England. What if major sections of them were just enough higher that they formed the Dogger islands rather than the Dogger banks? To be honest, I suspect that all of human history would diverge in a major way due to various butterfly affects, but I can’t think of any specific scenario. There was a major World War I sea battle near the Dogger banks. The British had a good shot at bagging most or all of the German battle-cruiser fleet, but blew it due to communication problems. Assuming that there still was an England and a Germany, I wonder how a Dogger Island would affect that battle.
9. Extra-large Easter Island. Easter Island is a fascinating place, with the remnants of a very strange culture. The most spectacular of those remnants are the huge statues that the islanders built and then toppled. The island itself is a flea-speck on the maps, ecologically extremely fragile due to that small size, and not really large enough to sustain the kind of culture that once existed there. Let’s say that the island was a little bit bigger—just enough larger that the Polynesians who settled there don’t have enough time to totally destroy the ecology before European contact. Somewhere along the line, Spanish, Portuguese, or Dutch sailors discover a still-flourishing Easter Island culture and describe it, shortly before they spread European diseases that pretty much destroy it. What impact does that have, if any? Just one less phony mystery for the guy that wrote ‘Chariots of the Gods”? An earlier European exploration and conquest of the Pacific islands sparked by popular fascination with the Easter Islanders?
10. Fort Sumter not an issue at the beginning of the Civil War. Okay, I know this is stretching the whole island theme, but Fort Sumter was on an island, and I did want to get in at least one US Civil War scenario. There are several ways that we could go with this one. South Carolina actually built Fort Sumter and the other forts near Charleston, but later gave them to the Federal government. What if the state government kept the forts, or never built them, or leased them? Or what if South Carolina’s militia caught the federal troops while they were attempting to move from a vulnerable fort on the mainland to Fort Sumter in late 1860? If you remove Fort Sumter as a flashpoint you might delay the Civil War by a month or two, though there were enough other flashpoints that it would be difficult to avoid war altogether, especially since the leadership of both the confederate states and the union felt that compromise was unthinkable.
11. Flinders island humans survive. Okay, this is an odd one. Flinders Island is between Australia and Tasmania. During ice ages it is part of a peninsula connecting Australia and Tasmania. When sea levels rose after the last ice age, a small group of people were apparently trapped on the island. They and their descendants survived there for several thousand years, then died out several thousand years before Europeans reached the area. This is a small enough island that it would have supported no more than around 300 people at the technological level of the time and area. That small of a population is very vulnerable to a host of problems, among them inbreeding and the impact of just one bad year climate-wise. It’s not surprising that the population died out, but it was kind of a luck of the draw thing. If they had been extremely lucky, the population might have survived long enough for the Europeans to find and exterminate them in the 1600s or slightly thereafter. That doesn’t really do much for us, but if accounts of their life-style and culture survived or even some genetic material it would be scientifically fascinating. We don’t know what happens when you isolate that small of a population for that long and it would be interesting to find out.
12. Flores ‘hobbits’ survive. To be honest I think that this is unlikely, though they did apparently get wiped out or nearly so by a volcanic eruption around 12,000 years ago. If they hadn’t been destroyed then I suspect that they would have been destroyed by one of the waves of human conquerors that have flowed through the area of Indonesia over the last several thousand years. If some little pocket of them did manage to survive on Flores long enough to be discovered by Europeans, what impact would that have on the way Europeans looked at the world? I suppose that really depends on when the Europeans discovered them. In the 1600s? In the mid-1800s? Later? What if the fossil remains of the hobbits had been discovered earlier—maybe in the early 1900s? What would scientists then have thought of them? Missing link? Side-branch? How would that have influenced the development of the study of human ancestors.
13. Greater Galapagos. Let’s say that the Galapagos Islands were somewhat bigger than they actually are—maybe twice their actual size. What impact would that have? Do the native animals develop even more spectacular forms? Do the islands attract human colonists? If so, the bulk of the native animals would almost certainly be wiped out, with the potential for a huge impact on western thought. Would Darwin still come up with the theory of evolution if the animals of the Galapagos were already for the most part wiped out? Where would the first settlers come from? Polynesia? South America? Both? Would the two cultures (Polynesians and South American Indians swap technology and ideas? What would the impact of that be?
14. Battle of Guadalcanal goes differently. There a lot of ways we can go with this one. If the Japanese had moved a little quicker they could have built up enough that the US couldn’t have gotten onto the island without a bigger fight than we were ready for at the time. They could also have hit us harder in the early going with naval power. At one point two Japanese battleships absolutely devastated US airpower on the island. A bigger, nastier bombardment might have allowed the Japanese to actually take the island in the early going. What impact would those possibilities have on the rest of the war? They could have had some significant ripple affects. The US effort in Guadalcanal did have some impact on the US buildup for the invasion of North Africa. If Guadalcanal went differently, we might see that invasion happen earlier or later, which would have some impact as far away as the area around Stalingrad. The German response to the allied invasion of North Africa stripped away reserves, and especially air power and air transports from the eastern front. Change the timing of that and things could go very differently on the Eastern front.
15. A different colonizing power for Hawaii. We could go a lot of ways on this one. The Spanish could have discovered and conquered the islands early on. The English might have moved in sometime in the early to mid 1800s. The Japanese might well have moved in if we didn’t. The Germans might have even controlled them up until World War I, and then seen the Japanese take over like they took so many other German Pacific colonies. How would any of those scenarios change the setting for World War II?
16.  ‘Hobbits’ in Australia. The recently discovered fossils of small primitive humans in Flores mean that very primitive and very early humans could cross at least small stretches of ocean, since Flores has never been connected to the Asian mainland. Let’s say that the Flores hobbits were somewhat better at crossing oceans than they apparently were, and that they manage to get to Australia fairly early on—maybe by 700,000 years ago. What would the implications of that be? I’m probably going to explore this in more depth later.
17. Island Italy remains an island. Now this takes some explanation. During the Miocene, the islands of Sardinia and Corsica, along with part of the adjacent Italian mainland, was an island for quite some time. This island developed it’s own unique and fascinating group of animals, including a three-foot tall ape that walked around on it’s hind legs. This was an independent development that had nothing to do with the human ancestry, but it was a fascinating animal in its own right. When the island reconnected with the mainland, all of the unique animals quickly died out. So, could they have somehow been preserved? Not easily. The Mediterranean sea dried up entirely around this time if I recall correctly, so we would have to do some fairly major rearrangement of geography to make this happen. Any ideas on how that could have worked out, or on what impact it would have had?
18. The IRA allies with Hitler. Actually, the Irish Republican army had temporarily spent itself at the beginning of World War II, and wasn’t able to do much while the British were preoccupied with Hitler. What if they had been active in the early days of World War II or in the months leading up to it? What if any impact would that have had on World War II?
19. Ireland gains its independence earlier or later than it did historically. An independent Ireland as a result of the war that led to US independence? Not impossible. All of Ireland still held by the British at the start of World War II? Also not impossible. What would the impact of each of those scenarios be?
20. British Indian Ocean fleet annihilated by the Japanese. During the first half of 1942, the Japanese were riding high after a series of easy victories. They did a carrier raid into the Indian Ocean. The British fleet was no match for the Japanese and hid out at a remote island harbor (which is where the island in all of this comes in). What if the Japanese had found the British fleet and forced it to do battle? Chances are very high that the British would have been beaten and possibly even essentially annihilated. At that point, the British have at least temporarily lost control of the Indian Ocean. What impact does that have on the rest of the war?
21. Japan doesn’t renounce firearms. The Japanese were almost unique in adopting a militarily useful weapon (the musket), using it extensively, and then essentially abandoning it while it was still militarily useful. It took a peculiar set of personalities and circumstances to make that happen. What would it have taken for the Japanese to continue making and using firearms? What would the consequences have been? Japanese firearms were actually quite good by contemporary European standards when they abandoned them. Would they have continued to produce weapons at or even above European quality if they had continuedproducing guns? Could they have even accelerated the development of more advanced guns? What would the impact of all of this be, if any?
22. Japanese militarist coup succeeds in 1940. Shortly after the fall of France, a faction of Japanese militarists decided that it was time to take advantage of the weakness of the west. They tried to take over the Japanese government, apparently with the goal of coming into the war on Germany’s side and picking up some spoils—the same idea that Mussolini had. Let’s say they succeed and Japan enters World War II on the Axis side in the summer of 1940. What are the implications of that? I may look at this one in more depth later in this issue or in a future issue.
23. Kangaroo Island humans or marsupial wolves survive. This is pretty much the same situation as the one on Flinders Island.  Humans were isolated on an island off the coast of Australia at the end of the ice age. They survived there for thousands of years, then died out. The island was apparently too small for a viable human population to sustain itself over enough thousands of years. It was also apparently too small for marsupial wolves to survive long term. Let’s say that one of the two species gets lucky and is still around when European settlers arrive. Probably about the same set of possible outcomes as with Flinders island.
24. What would it take to make the Loch Ness Monster real? What I’m after here is a full-fledged marine lizard from the age of the dinosaurs living in a lake on a European island that has been covered or nearly covered by glaciers a large hunk of the last million years. And of course this needs to be in a world as close to ours as you can get. I can’t even start to come up with a scenario that comes close to that. Can you?
25. Melville Island Marsupial Wolf. Most of you are probably at least vaguely aware of the Tasmanian Wolf, (also called Thylacine) a recently (1936) extinct carnivore which looked and acted a lot like a wolf, but was actually related to possums and kangaroos. They were probably driven to extinction on the mainland of Australian when Australian aborigines brought in Dingos a few thousand years ago. Tasmanian Wolves survived until more recently in Tasmania because Tasmania became an island before the Dingo arrived. The Tasmanian Wolf was killed off along with the original humans of Tasmania after European settlers arrived. Melville Island north of Australia is another fairly sizable island that was cut off from Australia before dingoes arrived. Unlike Flinders Island and Kangaroo Island, Melville Island supported a cut-off group of humans until after Europeans arrived. What if Thylacines had survived on Melville Island? Let’s say that a small surviving population is discovered shortly after World War II on Melville Island. What implications if any would that have?
26. Madagascar Mega-fauna lemurs survive. Madagascar is home to a rich group of primitive monkey-like creatures called lemurs. Unfortunately, a lot of the largest, most spectacular, and scientifically interesting lemurs died out since humans colonized the island around 2000 years ago. The extinctions came in waves, with the most vulnerable animals dying out early and with a substantial subset of the animals still around by 1200 or even 1500 AD, including some large ground-dwelling species that were somewhat convergent on Baboons. What would it take for those lemurs that almost survived to make it? Maybe a human epidemic like smallpox that reduced hunting pressure on the lemurs for a while and let populations rebuild. The lemurs who survived long enough to take advantage of the respite would presumably be more wary than the original population, so they might be able to survive given that kind of a break. So, what kind of impact would finding a bunch more lemurs have on world? Probably not very much outside of the scientific community. Scientifically they would probably be fascinating.
27. Mussolini munches Malta. For a short period right after the fall of France, Italy had a window of opportunity to pick off British colonies in the Mediterranean and the vicinity. British forces were recovering from their defeat in France, and most of the available forces were tied up defending Britain itself. Fortunately for the British, the Italians dissipated what little strength they had doing things like sending Italian planes to fight in the Battle of Britain. The planes that had a minuscule impact there could have been a potent addition to Italian strength in the Mediterranean. Could the Italians have taken Malta if they had concentrated their forces on doing that in the immediate aftermath of the fall of France? They would have at least had a shot at it. What impact would that have had on the rest of the war? Quite a bit, probably. British forces in Malta tied up a lot of Italian and German airpower in 1941 and 1942, and did a real number on Axis logistics in North Africa.
28. The US loses at Midway. This has been done a gazillion times, but I haven’t seen a scenario that looks at the impact a defeat there would have had outside the Pacific theatre. I’m planning to try that kind of a scenario in the next couple of issues.
29. New Providence holds out against the Spanish. In the 1640s, the Puritans tried to plant a colony on an island off the coast of Nicaragua. The colony lasted for several years before the Spanish attacked and destroyed it. New Providence was gearing up to receive a fairly major influx of colonists from New England at the time, at it may well have become too strong for the Spanish to easily get rid of if they had waited a bit longer before attacking. The British would have probably used New Providence as a base for further operations against Spanish colonies in Central America, and against Spanish shipping. As Spain’s power declined in the later 1600s, New Providence would be valuable as the British tried to exploit that weakness. What impact would New Providence have on the weakening Spanish hold on its empire?
30. Independent Okinawa after World War II. What would it take? Okinawa used to be part of an independent Kingdom of the Ryukyus before Japan took over. Is there any way it could maintain its independence or develop an independence movement that would lead to restoration of independence after World War II.
31. The US holds out in the Philippines at the start of World War II. US plans had long been based on the fact that the Philippines as a whole were indefensible in case of a war with Japan. The US had long planned to hole up on the Bataan peninsula and try to hold out until the US Navy fought its way through the Pacific and to the rescue. Douglas MacArthur decided to try to defend all of Mindanao. He ended up with the worst of both worlds—pushed back into Bataan peninsula, but without enough food and ammunition to hold out long enough for the navy to come to the rescue. Let’s say he sticks with the original plan and pre-positions enough food and ammunition that US forces are still holding the Bataan peninsula in July 1942. What happens next? Does the US run into a situation where they politically have to try a rescue effort in the fall of 1942? What impact would not doing that have on the 1942 mid-term elections? What would happen if the US did try a rescue effort in the second half of 1942? (As some of you remember, I explored some of these ideas in more depth in a scenario where Hitler didn’t declare war on the US.
32. Japanese earthquake comes later. (Yeah it’s a stretch. If you can do better with “Q”, feel free.) In the 1923, Tokyo and the surrounding area experienced a devastating earthquake. The quake killed around 140,000 people and destroyed large parts of Tokyo and surrounding areas. What if that earthquake had come later—say in the summer of 1937 when the tensions that led the Japanese to wage all-out war on China were building up? With an extra almost 14 years for the stresses to build up, the 1937 earthquake would have probably been even more devastating. It would have almost certainly delayed all-out war between Japan and China for at least a few months. Would that have been enough to short-circuit the whole war? Probably not, though with winter coming on in northern China, it might have delayed the start of hostilities until the spring of 1938. That would give the Chinese Nationalists an additional 6 to 8 months to train and prepare for war. It would also give tensions between the Japanese and the Soviets over disputed border areas in Manchuria more time to fester. The Japanese might end up fighting the Soviets rather than the Chinese in 1938 and 1939. Historically there were several major battles between the Soviets and the Japanese along that border. The Soviets won most of those battles, partly though not entirely because the Japanese had a lot of troops tied down in China. How do you think this would have all played out? A Soviet/Japanese war in 1938/1939? Just a later Japanese invasion of China?
33. British attack Italian-held Rhodes (Eastern Mediterranean near Turkey) in late 1940 or early 1941. What if the British had gone after Rhodes to take the pressure off of Greece instead of committing troops to the Greek mainland? It would have probably been a better move, assuming that the Italian defenses weren’t too strong. Given the usual state of Italian military preparations that’s probably a reasonably safe assumption. Rhodes could then be used as a base for attacking the other Italian-held islands in the Eastern Mediterranean, with a goal of eventually threatening the German position in the Balkans and/or convincing Turkey to come into the war on the Allied side.
34. Subhuman Slave Soldiers of Sardinia.That’s a perfect title for a bad pulp story or an awful 1950s science fiction movie. I can also think of a plausible alternate history way to make it happen, but I think I'll develop the scenario a bit more before I spring it on you.
35. Britain saves Singapore. The British didn’t have to lose Singapore in early 1942. They had plenty of resources to stop the Japanese, certainly before they took the city. What if British commanders had used their resources more effectively and stopped that Japanese short of the city? What impact does that have on the rest of World War II?
36. The French take Taiwan in the 1880s. The French and Chinese fought a war primarily over Indochina in 1884-85. The French tried to grab Taiwan, but were defeated by a particularly vigorous Chinese governor. What if they had been successful in taking Taiwan? How would that have affected the history of the area in the twentieth century? Japan couldn’t have taken Taiwan without a war with France, which they probably wouldn’t have tried until at least 1940. This could get interesting. How would a French colony in Taiwan affect the Sino-Japanese war? If France fell to the Germans on schedule, would French Taiwan go Free French of Vichy? The Japanese would want to take advantage of French weakness to take the colony, but given the proximity to the Philippines, would the US let them get away with that? A Japanese attempt to take it might be seen as a threat to the Philippines, and the Japanese might decide that taking Taiwan would have to be part of an all-out war with the US.
37. United States fortifies Guam before World War II.  Yes, that's another stretch.  I can't think of anything else for 'U' though.  This could actually be a pretty good scenario.  Guam was deep inside the Japanese Pacific mandates, but it was held by the US at the beginning of World War II.  The US agreed not to fortify Guam as part of the Washington Naval Treaties.  After the Japanese renounced those treaties, there was some talk in the military about fortifying Guam, but Congress thought doing that would be too provocative.  The Japanese built up overwhelming forces in nearby islands, and when war broke out in the Pacific, they quickly took Guam from a tiny US garrison.  Guam was potentially strategic.  If the US built a major base there and held it,  getting a US fleet to the Philippines in the event of a war with Japan would have been much easier.  On the other hand, Guam was far enough away from any other US-held islands that it would have taken a major logistic effort to keep it supplied, especially given the Japanese-held chains of islands between Guam and Hawaii. 
38. Vikings on Newfoundland? It’s been done. Can’t think of anything original to say about it, but at least that covers “V”.
39. Wrangel Island dwarf mammoths survive until they are discovered by Europeans. Wrangel Island is north of the mainland of Siberia. Dwarf mammoths survived there until after the Egyptians started building pyramids. What if they had made it into the 1700s and been discovered by the Russians? Would they survive the discovery? What impact if any would finding these things have on the rest of history?
40. Wales remains independent. What would it take? What impact would it have on the rest of history? 
41. West Antarctic icecap collapses at the end of the ice age. (Without the ice cap West Antarctica would be an island, so with a little stretching and bending this sort of fits). Sea levels worldwide go up ten to fifteen additional feet. What impact would that have? Huge and difficult to trace I suspect.
42. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto marooned? You may recall that we shot down and killed the Japanese Admiral behind the Pearl Harbor attack. What if he had survived marooned on some remote Pacific Island until a year or two after the war? Alternatively, he’s marooned but both the US and the Japanese know it and play all kinds of games trying to find him first.
43. And one last stretch: New Zealand’s Maori’s win their wars with the European settlers. How could it happen? What impact would that have in the rest of the world?

Well, that’s that. Forty-plus mini-scenarios covering all but one of the letters of the alphabet. Are there any great original ideas in there? Well there are a couple that I‘ll probably develop into full-fledged scenarios. Are there any that I held my nose and put in there because I couldn’t think of anything better for that letter? Oh yeah. Overall, was this worth doing? It was for me. I hope it gave you some worthwhile ideas too. That’s the whole point of brainstorming—stimulating creativity and building on ideas.