May 2014 – Random Story Prompt

Free Write

Take today and write on your own story, if you don’t have a story use the archive to create one.

Write a story about someone being a hooky and what they get up to on that day.

What are they being hooky from? (work, school, chores, family…)

Why are they risking?

What are they willing to risk to keep it up?

Create a world where there are many different forces that must be kept in balance or destruction happens.

How many forces are there? What are the different forces?

How hard is it to bring them out of balance?

How much work each day is done each day to keep them in balance?

Challenge: Create two worlds, one of fantasy, and one of science fiction.

Write a story about someone that there every thought, emotion, and secret showed in some way to the world.

How are theses things shown?

Why are they shown?

Do they try to hid it?

How do others react to this?

Write a story about someone that keeps running.

What are they running from?

Why are they running from it?

What happens to those that try to help them?

Write a story about someone meeting a dead ancestor.

How do they meet the person? (dream, physically, hunting…)

What is the point in meeting the ancestor?

What does the ancestor say about the character?

Create a character that would devote their life to worship.

Why would they devote their life to worship?

What would they worship? (a god, demon, devil…)

How does this worship change their lives?

Take today and write on your own story, if you don’t have a story use the archive to create one.

Write a story about someone going through the worse pain they have ever felt.

How do you describe pain that is getting worse?

How do you describe pain that no one has ever felt?

How do you see this experience changing the person?

Write a story set in a sci-fi universe.

What kinds of things happen in the universe?

Is the science more like magic or is it understood?

How can this be interesting to readers?