Create a character that has some super human ability, but also has some mental problems.
What kind of power do they have?
What kind of mental problems do they have?
Are there mental problems stemmed from there power?
How do they deal with this problem?
Examples:
Write a story of a bard that is set in the future.
Why is the bard where they are?
What is going to happen to the bard?
How do you include the singing into the story?
Write a story about a wondering bard.
How does the Bard get there songs?
What can you do to the story to have the bard gain more in the story?
What is the bards point in the story?
Write a story of someone waking up.
How do they wake up?
What has happened to them if anything?
Why are they waking the way they are?
What can you change to make it more interesting?
Take the story and characters from yesterday and rewrite the story where the soldier is the shape changer and people are hunting them.
How is the soldier hiding him self?
How does the soldier discover/gain the power to shape-shift?
Take the soldier from yesterday, (or any soldier) and write a story about them hunting down a creature that can change it’s shape.
What are the rules that the creature can change it’s shape?
What is the solder doing to track the creature?
What kind of twists can you add to the creature’s actions?
Write a story about a characters nightmare but needs to wake up safe in the end.
Write a story where every time the main character goes to sleep the world and the character has changed.
Why is this happening?
Why does no one else see it? or do they?
Why can this be interesting?
Write a story about someone that is in hiding and the paranoia they experience because they are hiding.
How can you make the reader feel the paranoia of the character?
What is the character hiding from?
What can you change to make the hiding more thrilling?
Write a story from the point of view of a prisoner.
Why are they a prisoner?