Make a world in which the apocalypse has happened, now give the people in that world, the people have no hope, hope.
Month: April 2012
Witness to the Hero
Brainstorm a story, in which the main character is witness to the hero, not the hero.
Missing Main Character.
Write a story where one of the main character is missing from the story.
Does this work?
Is the character really needed?
What does taking that character out do to your story?
Prison Flipping
Take an existing character, if you have no existing characters use yourself. Write a story starting with them being locked up. Be sure to include flashbacks of there capture intermixed with their escape/release.
Twisted Fairytale
Write a story that has a hero, a damsel in distress, and a evildoer that the hero must defeat.
When you get to the climax where the hero is to defeat the evildoer open Hidden Twist below
Hidden Twist
The evildoer is defeated by banana peel.
Physical Change
Create a character based on yourself with one physical change.
Write about this person, and because of this physical change how their life differs from your own.
Magic Over The Top
Create a world where magic is so prevalent that everyone has it.
Write about that world.
New Civil War
Take an events of the civil war and write a story that mirrors it as if the war happened today.
No Memory
Write a story in which the main character wakes up with no memory of how they got there.
Character to Hate.
Create a character that is overall good, but make him someone everyone will hate.
Write a story about that character.