Okay, so I've said this before in different forms- read the news, eavesdrop, etc. But this is a really good idea. Just yesterday, I was talking to several other NaNo participants and one was stuck. Somebody (not me!) suggested reading the newspaper, not just the news but the "oddly enough" pages and I've heard people talk about reading the obituaries.
As for paying attention to the world around you, you could eavesdrop, or you could just look. That park that you walk by everyday could become an important setting for a scene. Or maybe that nice old lady in front of you in the supermarket morphs into your main character's grandmother. One of the other participants said she enjoys putting people she saw and heard on the train into her novel.
So pay attention. Who knows, maybe when you next go on a nacho run at three in the morning, you'll discover a setting, a character, and a plot.
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