Brainstorming – Random Story Prompt

Brainstorm Superpowers

Brainstorm ideas for superpower, the more strange and unusual the better.

What kinds of superpowers are there?

How can a superpower seem bad but still be useful?

How can different superpowers be combined to create something else?

Brainstorm ideas for a civilization farther in the future than what we can imagine, that spans many star systems and galaxies.

How do people get around?

Is people the correct term for people in this civilization?

How different can the people be? (what if they all came from the original home world?)

What is known about there past?

Brainstorm ideas of how transformation can affect the story.

What kinds of transformations can be seen and what transformations can not be seen?

What kinds of change will have the most affect vs the ones that are but a passing glance?

What can be inferred about the story, plot or character by this transformation?

Brainstorm ideas for flat characters in a story.

What makes them flat?

Why would you need flat characters?

How can a flamboyant character be flat?

Brainstorm ideas of things that could happen in the dark of the night.

Are there lights?

Is it black dark?

Brain storm reason why a hero and a villain do what they do.

What reasons do they share?

What reasons do they not share?

What kinds of things makes a hero different from the villain and vise versa?

Brainstorm ideas for secret societies.

Are they so secret that no one knows about them? or so secret everyone knows?

Are they good, neutral, or evil in intent? have they changed from the foundation?

Brainstorm ideas for a society that protects people.

Are they there for the glory?

Are they going through the motions and only pretending?

Do the hid and not show others what they are?

Brainstorm ideas for a scary story for halloween.

Brainstorm ideas for the next story, but start with the characters not the plot.

How would building the characters change a story versus writing a plot?

What can be had by this exercise?

What kind of story can you build if you only have a set of characters?