Stop smoking and use your ashtray for creative inspiration.

Early in his career someone asked Anton Chekhov how he came up with his stories so quickly.
"See this ashtray," he said, "I can give you a story about it tomorrow". That's your cue to write something personal about how you stopped smoking or perhaps a travel article about asking for an ashtray in France (cendrier) or matches in Amsterdam (Lucifers) Or do a Stephen King about the poor man from Seattle who leaned out the window to smoke in a Vegas hotel and plunged to his death. Submit your work to one of the regular contests at Zoetrope.com. Like Chekhov I speak Russian. So Ooodacha (it means good luck).