brainstorm – Random Story Prompt

Brainstorm Superpowers

Brainstorm ideas for superpower, the more strange and unusual the better.

What kinds of superpowers are there?

How can a superpower seem bad but still be useful?

How can different superpowers be combined to create something else?

Brainstorm ideas of how transformation can affect the story.

What kinds of transformations can be seen and what transformations can not be seen?

What kinds of change will have the most affect vs the ones that are but a passing glance?

What can be inferred about the story, plot or character by this transformation?

Brainstorm ideas for flat characters in a story.

What makes them flat?

Why would you need flat characters?

How can a flamboyant character be flat?

Brainstorm ideas of things that could happen in the dark of the night.

Are there lights?

Is it black dark?

Brainstorm ideas for secret societies.

Are they so secret that no one knows about them? or so secret everyone knows?

Are they good, neutral, or evil in intent? have they changed from the foundation?

Brainstorm ideas for a society that protects people.

Are they there for the glory?

Are they going through the motions and only pretending?

Do the hid and not show others what they are?

Brainstorm ideas for a scary story for halloween.

Brainstorm ideas for the next story, but start with the characters not the plot.

How would building the characters change a story versus writing a plot?

What can be had by this exercise?

What kind of story can you build if you only have a set of characters?

Brainstorm ideas of ways people would want to change their minds and bodies using technology.

Examples:

Brainstorm strange places that people, or creatures live.

where is this place?

What makes it so different from other places?

What about this place could make difficult?