Create a character that loves the heat. Loves the heat so much that they will go into danger to get close to the heat.
What does the character do for a living?
Why do they love heat?
Are they always burning themselves?
What does the have a personality like the heat?
Create a charter that loves the cold.
Why does the character like the cold?
What does the character do in the cold?
Do others around them see why they enjoy it so?
Take today and write on your own story, if you don’t have a story use the archive to create one.
Create a world based in magic, and after you have created this world apply the rule “there is no magic.”
How can you keep this world the same but not have magic?
What can you substitute magic with?
How can you keep the feel it had before by exchanging magic with something else?
Inspiration:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ~Arthur C. Clarke
Take today and write a story about thanking someone.
Why are they thanking that someone?
How are they thanking that someone?
Chose a classic storyline and rewrite it in your style.
What classic storyline did you chose? (Frankenstein, Little Red Riding Hood, Alice in Wonder Land…)
What changes did you do that made it better?
What changes did you do that made it worse?
Do you understand why these classic storylines endure the way they do?
Write a story about an object that anyone that touches it is driven insane.
What is the object?
Why does it drive people insane? is it Haunted? is it Magical? is it Cursed? or allow people to know Too Much?
Write a story about a monster that is more human than the mob that chases them.
How can you show this?
Why is the monster chased?
How long has this been going on?
What will stop the monster in the end?
Create a character that is ever the victim.
Why are they the victim? Is it there decisions, or there lot in life?
What does being the victim do to there life?
Would this charter make a better lead or some passing flat character?
Take today and write on your own story, if you don’t have a story use the archive to create one.