Find a movie poster for a movie you have never seen and know nothing about, now brainstorm possible stories from that one image.
Use http://www.imdb.com/ or any other source you can find for movie posters.
Does the story match the movie once it is done.
Write a story about a normal slob in the world, and their fight to get to the top.
When they get to their goals open hidden twist.
Hidden Twist
Show just how much further others have gotten around them.
Write a story about someone that has given up, but is able to find that one thing that they can not give up for, and write about their fight to keep that thing they can live for.
Write a story about someone from our time being dropped into a utopian society where there every needs are met without having to do anything.
How do they fit?
Do they get bored?
Would they conflict with the system?
Would the system have to do something about them?
Take today and write on your own story, if you don’t have a story use the archive to create one.
Take the world from yesterday, if you did not create the world from yesterday make it now, and write a story about that world losing all magic, to the point that anything that relied on magic would die.
Create a world that is so full of magic that hardly any one has to do anything to make the world go round.
Write about it.
Write a story about someone that has the most rotten luck of anyone in the world. Then resolve the story with all those bad twists of fate leading to something even better than all the bad twists of fate.
Write a story about someone that has almost found paradise in their lives, but it is missing that one important thing.
What is that thing?
How does the person find that one thing?
And does that one thing only give way to something else they want?
Find a good song and write a story that follows the feelings and ideas inspired by the song.