Given x number of steps write a story.
Write a story about a boy that grew up with out a father, all his life his father was a note sent with money to take care of him and his mother. One day that boy decides he need his father in his life and sets out to find him.
What fight erupts between them when the boy finds the father?
What is the father really been doing all theses years?
Why did the father stay away?
Why did the father need to be a father to the boy?
Write a story from the point of view of a character of the opposite sex.
How well did you portray the character of the opposite sex?
Would there be things you would do differently?
Would others say you need to change things?
Write a story from the point of a character that does not need a costume for Halloween.
write a description of a child’s nightmarish night in there room listening to there parents fighting in the other room.
what kinds of things does the child do to escape?
what kinds of things does the child see?
what kinds of feelings does the child feel?
Write 5 story ideas that complete the sentence: “The main character is trying to stop…”
Write a story using the statement, “What if you got more than anyone else?”
How would this change your life?
What would others lives be like?
Would you be the only lucky one?
Would you be the one to get all the bad luck?
Choose 3 animals, now write a story using those animals for your main characters. The important part is that the characters are physical or symbolically imbued with that animal that represents that character in some way.
Take a song with lyrics and use the lyrics as a starting point for your story.
Take a character that for some reason is dropped into a dystopian society. A society that only functions because of the chaos and evil that is in it.
How would they react?
What would they do?
Would they change society or would socity change them?
Now write that story.
Take your favorite comic and write a story that is Spin-off of that comic.