Describe a sight that the reader has never seen. (use words as your paint brush)
What is in sight? Why is it there? What can be felt? What Can be heard, smelt, and tasted?
What could lead up to this sight?
How do you describe something that is truly foreign to the reader?
How can the reader guess what happened before by what is described?
Write a story about a new superhero.
What makes them a superhero?
What are there problems?
What are there strengths?
How can this compare to other superheros?
Write a story about a pair of friends where one of the friends is either slowly goes insane or has a psychotic break.
Why do they go insane?
How does the friend handle the new insanity?
What ultimately happens to the friendship?
Take a story you like and flip your favorite character’s gender, and rewrite.
How Does this change the story?
How does this not change the story?
Is the character’s sex that important to the story? Or is it your perception of the character’s sex that is important?
Create a character that was human at one point but is something else now.
What are they now? (examples: Demon, God, Monster, Computer, Alien….)
Why are they this way?
What has this change done to them mentally?
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 the man in the following image:
Write a story about the best of friends that have a falling out.
Why do they have a falling out?
What are they able to do about it?
What do they do about it?
Are they friends after?
Write a story about the new kid in school and how the main character of the story is overly interested in them.
Why is the main character interested in the new kid?
How does this interest affect the story?
Why does this interest exist?
Write a story about two lovers who are forbidden to love.
Why are they forbidden to love? (are they related, differing ages, wrong type, beneath the family…)
Are they destined to be together? or do they fail in the end?
What happens if they are together?