Brainstorm ideas for a race of snow men.
What kind of world would make them?
What kind of history could they have?
What would make them more than peaceful? what if they were warriors?
Given a subject or two come up with some ideas for stories.
Brainstorm ideas for a race of snow men.
What kind of world would make them?
What kind of history could they have?
What would make them more than peaceful? what if they were warriors?
Brainstorm possible conflicts that the character created yesterday would cause/run into.
What kinds of things can you see being problems?
Is the character really helping create theses conflicts?
What can you change about character to create conflict?
Brainstorm character traits that people from the race created yesterday would have. if you did not create a race create it now.
Are they just like humans? or do they have some traits that are quite different?
How do theses traits shape the culture? how does the culture shape the traits?
What trait do you most identify with?
Brainstorm some random plots.
How are they related?
How are they different?
Examples
Brainstorm character traits of the lead singer of a band.
Brainstorm, possible plaints and life that could exist on those plaints.
Brainstorm important events in your life that if changed, how would they affect your life today?
Brainstorm character traits of a villain.
Brainstorm character traits of a hero.
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.