~ Ideas For Stories ~

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Hey, sooooooooooooo. This "Chapter" is going to be a chapter with a list of questions/prompts you can use to give you ideas for writing. Soooo yah. Enjoy! 

1.) Take an already existing story and change 1 major element of the story, and then rewrite the ending that results from that change.

) Take an already existing story and change 1 major element of the story, and then rewrite the ending that results from that change

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2.) What does an argument look like from the viewpoint of the other person?

3.) Write about a moment you are currently in, being sure to describe every detail of the moment. (Ex: "The Dream I Lived" "Tommy's Pond") 

4.) Who did it? (write a piece from the POV of the guilty person, but write it so a reader wouldn't know they are guilty)

5.) Write a scene using only one sense (smell, taste, touch, hear, audio)

6.) What happened to him/her?

7.) I tried to help him/her but...

8.) Everything was going great until...

9.) 1 sentence story (Ex: "I Love You")

10.) 6 word stories (Ex: "Six Words Is All You Need")

) 6 word stories (Ex: "Six Words Is All You Need")

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11.) Tell a story you know well in only 500 words. (Ex: "When I Became A Robot")

12.) Tell the same story, from #11 in only 250 words. (Ex: "Start To Finish")

13.) Write a portrait (Ex: "Hazel Eyes and Striking Blond Hair")

14.) Write a piece, where each stanza begins, "I remember..." (Ex: "Nylah" "I Miss You and I Love You")

15.) Mirror the style of an author you admire. (Ex: "I Love You")

16.) Listen in on random conversations, and write down what you hear, then use the things you overhear, and write a story with them. 

17.) Write a culturally specific piece, anything you want. (Ex: "Small Talk") 

18.) Write a piece about food. (Ex: "Una Lingua in Zwei")

19.) Write about a normal action in an abnorally specific way. 

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20.) Write a story about a time someone lost your trust. (Ex: "Shape My Hands")

21.) Write about a trait you have that you feel is very admirable. 

22.) What if your hometown was a person? 

23.) Pick a specific feeling, and write a piece only on that emotion, being sure to hone in on all of its descriptors.  

24.) Write about a person. Not just describing there physical attributes, but how they affected you as a person. (Ex: "Nylah")

25.) "Number of..." Like the "I remember..." piece, start every stanza with "Number of..."

26.) Choose an object that is on you at the moment, and write about it in an extraneous way. (could get pretty creepy).


27.) Think of something you've never experienced, and to your best ability, describe it using events you have experienced.  


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28.) You're a realestate agent, try to sell one of the 2 houses in the picture below, but add a creepy element to the house.

     Ex: There's a ghost that haunts the stove.

          "You will have to replace the stove, because it doesn't always light." 

*I'll be updating this as I think of things : )*

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*I'll be updating this as I think of things : )*

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