Write a story about a house.
What is the importance of the house?
Why tell the story about the house?
What can be so interesting about a house?
Category: Idea
Story prompts that take some idea and write on it.
Mythological Twist
Write a story about a mythological creature and add your own spin on it.
What kind of twist did you add? (example: Sirens temp men to mate, monster that kills to save, a good jinn,….)
Why is there a twist? How come do the stories not have the twist?
Genius’ Fears
Write a story about a genius with many fears.
What is the genius’ fears?
What do they do to avoid those fears?
What happens when they are pushed to their fears?
Magical Item
Write a story about someone finding a magical item, and by possessing the item the person has things happen to them.
Is what happening to the person good or bad?
Are they able to get rid of it? or lose do they lose it easily?
Confusion
Write a story about someone that is confused.
Why are they confused? (ex: blow to the head, kidnapped, lost, drugs,…)
Do they resolve the confusion?
Do they find someone they can trust? or do they not trust any one? or do they trust someone that betrays them?
Tough Meeting
Take the “Tough Guy” you created sunday, if you did not create one do make it up, and tell a story of what happens when another character meets this Tough Guy.
Is it good they meet or bad?
Do the characters clash, get along, or both?
What happens when things around them twist in some odd way?
Small Decision
Write a story about a person that makes a small decision in there life, that has long lasting consequences.
Examples:
- Snoozing the clock for another 10 mins.
- Doing erins on lunch hour.
- knocking on neighbors door.
What are the consequences of the small decision? Good or bad?
Why would they make this small decision?
Just how extreme could the consequences be?
In The Water
Write a story about how the image below came to be.
Wet by DanOstergren on deviantART
The Decision
Write a story about someone that must make a decision that will change there life.
What is the decision?
Why must it be made?
What is the decision they make?
Monster
Write a story about someone that has forgotten there past only to find out they are the monster that everyone else fears.
How did they lose there memory?
Why are they monster?
What happens when they realize the power they have?