As Bill tries to teach Lenore all about his car and how to drive a stick shift, he finds inspiration for a new story in which a woman on a road trip starts receiving threatening calls on her cell phone.
Bill writes a new novel about a house intruder, while things change in his own household.
Inspired by Cynthia practicing feng shui, Bill writes a story about fortune cookies.
Bill writes a story about a robbery.
Bill watches a dog and gets inspiration for a story about a deadly inheritance.
Bill believes that one of his students, Stacy Hancock, is interested in having more than just a student/teacher relationship. Meanwhile, Bill writes a story about a writer who comes face to face with the ghost of Papa Hemingway while looking for inspiration.
After Grandma Lucy starts dating a man named Harold, Cynthia finds herself not only jealous but suspicious of his motives. This inspires Bill to write a story about a young woman who suspects that there's something odd about the man that her mother starts seeing.