Create a character that is a master/teacher a role model for the main character.
How does this character affect the main character?
Would there be better people to use?
Could this role model be leading the main character astray?
Author: russellr
Old Cartoon
Take a old cartoon and try and write an episode from that series.
How does your differ from the series?
Does yours work with the series?
What makes these works, vs. what makes yours work?
Can you mix what works in the 2 together?
One Common Ancestor
Brainstorm ideas for races that all have one common ancestor. It can be something like Star Trek where many races come from colonies earth sent out earlier. It could be aliens seeding their own genes in other races. It could be one great race that wondered before the beginning of time and created other races out of their transgressions.
Personal Cryptic Prophecy
Create a world where everyone in the world knows their future by reading their personal cryptic prophecy.
How does this affect their lives?
Do they try to break their fate?
Would this change the people in a particular way?
Not Planned Main Character
Take a character that you never planned to make a main character of a story and write a story about them.
Why does this happen to the character?
What happens to the character?
Oppsite What If Statement
Take the story from the what if statment from a few days ago and write a story on the opposite to that stories “what if statement”.
Examples:
What if reptiles were evolved from people?
What if oil was what filled the seas?
What if animals had super powers?
Jump to Conclusions
Write a story where people jump to conclusions and then get disappointed when they are not correct.
Supporting Characters
Create 5 supporting characters. Theses are the flat characters that show up in the story to point the main character to their goal.
How simple and flat are they?
Have you planned out too much for such a simple character?
What If
Create a story that is based on a what if statement.
For instance:
What if people were evolved from reptiles?
What if oil did not exist on earth?
What if people had super powers?
Mirror a Fairytale
Write a story that mirrors a fairytale, it can be turning Red Riding Hood into a gritty horror flick, it could be turning Snow White into a sci-fi fantasy, it could be taking Sleeping Beauty and swapping the characters about, but take some fairytale and put your own twist on it.
Once you are done:
How does your new fairy tail compared to the original?
What did you change in yours that worked in the old fairytale where it does not work so well in yours?
What can you learn from the fairytale?