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 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?
Write a story about a new superhero.
What makes them a superhero?
What are there problems?
What are there strengths?
How can this compare to other superheros?
Write a story about a pair of friends where one of the friends is either slowly goes insane or has a psychotic break.
Why do they go insane?
How does the friend handle the new insanity?
What ultimately happens to the friendship?
Take a story you like and flip your favorite character’s gender, and rewrite.
How Does this change the story?
How does this not change the story?
Is the character’s sex that important to the story? Or is it your perception of the character’s sex that is important?
Write a story about the man in the following image:
Write a story about the best of friends that have a falling out.
Why do they have a falling out?
What are they able to do about it?
What do they do about it?
Are they friends after?
Write a story about the new kid in school and how the main character of the story is overly interested in them.
Why is the main character interested in the new kid?
How does this interest affect the story?
Why does this interest exist?