Story prompts that take some idea and write on it.
Write a story centered around one poor schlub that the world at large does not care about.
Why would someone be interesting in reading such a story?
How can some thing so mundane make people feel more than a epic story?
How can this story bring emotions to the reader?
Write a story in which the life of one person is at stake, and by saving the person would not mater to the world at large.
Why is that person in danger?
Why would someone want to save that story?
How can anyone care for a story such as this?
How can you make the reader feel more for the person in danger?
Write a story in which the entire world is at stake.
Why is the world at stake?
What must people do to save the world?
How can the entire world be at stake?
Write a story about someone that does not fit into there world, and how they try to escape it.
Why do they not fit?
How do they try to escape it?
Do they just become part of it?
Write a story about someone that has been trapped for a year away from people and being discovered.
How does being away from society changed them?
How has being trapped changed them?
How do they try to be come part of society again?
Write a story about the following image.
Why are they in the mud?
How do they get away from that situation?
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Write a story of the discovery of the source of all magic.
What is the source of all magic? (How can it be twisted?)
Why does someone find the source of magic?
What kind of quest do others do to look for the source of magic?
Write a story about three brothers.
What kind of of plot can you write around three brothers?
How does this plot affect the family?
At the end are they closer or further apart?
Write a story about a disembodied head.
Why are they disembodied?
How does this affect others?
Extra challenge: write the story from the point of view of the head.
Write a story where evil wins, and good dies.
How can this be a good thing for a story?
What point of view do you write the story from?
What can this change about the story?