Toffeehead, it's called the daily newspaper.
Forget TV. Forget radio. All that does is fill your eyes and brain with generally useless buzz. Honestly, most of us just amble away in the mornings trying to get ready for work.
But newspapers - real print news? They're a gold mine.
First, they get your brain working in a manner that's very similar to what you do when writing - visualizing. Second, they get your brain working to understand the words, not just hear the buzzing voice of the morning news babes or leering at what she's wearing. Third, they force you to concentrate, to focus mental energy on what the words are trying to portray.
Fourth, a newspaper is a goldmine of idea material. Everything from the front page to the columnar ads to the want ads to the pets for sale has material in it that can spark an idea for a short story, a novella, or even a novel.
What must it be like for one of the Fukushima 50 to try to save those reactors and prevent a nuclear meltdown that could kill thousands more civilians when that person knows it could cost them their own life? You might not want to use the current disaster, but why not make the setting a futuristic colony facing an invasion the defenders know they can't repel, a medieval settlement surrounded by besiegers and suddenly faced with an outbreak of the plague, or a military unit in the middle of the trenches in WW1 being hammered by the enemy, unable to retreat, and suddenly under attack by poison gas?
How about a story about that girl in the lingerie ad on page 16 in the lower right corner? What's her story? What if her lingerie modeling is a cover for her masquerading as a super heroine at night fighting crime, a cat burglar stealing diamonds, or a serial killer who assails victims in such a fashion as to make them appear that a man is behind them?
And finally, how about those pets for sale? What if that puppy was really a super-intelligently evolved offspring of normal dogs? What if the kitten is the agent of an alien power bent on defending Earth from enslavement by something from the dark and evil sky? What if the boa constrictor killed a child?
...I'll leave it to you to find other ideas and to flesh these out if you like, but your newspaper is full of them every day.
All you have to do is change the names of the innocent (or the guilty - and Lord knows we know who most of them are).