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message 1: by [deleted user] (last edited Jan 11, 2015 05:59AM) (new)

I'll start with mine. Feel free to post your own.
1. Your character somehow becomes involved in anorexia nervosa, whether they have it or they meet someone who does, etc.
2. Your character, raised Catholic in the 1700’s, befriends a separatist.
3. Your character finds out that they are destined to be a force of evil.
4. Your character who is acrophobic [afraid of heights] starts to levitate uncontrollably at random times.
5. Your character is afraid of disabled people, until their soon-to-be-born sibling is diagnosed with Down syndrome.
6. Your character’s friend is frozen by a curse.
7. Your character is excited to go to the prom, until they realize their date is a witch.
8. Your character does something really dumb and regrets it, then finds a new, one-use invention that could right the wrong. But there’s a catch: if it’s used, one other huge thing about the past will change forever.
9. Your character falls into an alternate universe, where they are in complete control. Do they use it for evil or good? Do they ever go back to Earth?
10. Your paralyzed character has to decide whether to A) use a weird treatment that might help them but greatly increases the likelihood of them becoming mentally ill or B) stay the way they are with a feeding tube and a wheelchair.
11. Your character is kidnapped and their emotionally-distant but wealthy parents refuse to pay the ransom.
12. Write a story involving fairies or elves.
13. Write a story featuring a character with Asperger’s Syndrome.
14. Write a piece of realistic historical fiction. No other rules apply. 
15. Your character makes a deal with a strange white-haired woman and suddenly the character can control ice. [sorry if it's too Frozen-fanfiction-y.]
16. Write a story about a prisoner.
17. Write a story about someone with life-threatening allergies/sensitivities to one or more of the following: Peanuts, sunlight [look up XP], seafood, chocolate, germs [even minor ones]
18. Write a story about grief.
19. Write a story about a pretty, popular girl who is disfigured in an accident and loses her status in school.
20. Write a story in which the number 20 plays an important role.
21. Write a story in which a depressed character finds a friend/passion/hobby/pet/etc. that makes them happy again.
22. Write a story about an orphan.
23. Write a story about a teenage mother who ends up with much bigger problems than her age and her child…the apocalypse, cancer, aliens, whatever you want.
24. Write about an Amish person.
25. Write about a girl named Loveday Sunflower, raised by hippy parents.
26. Write about a child who has spent his/her whole life in an enclosed area with one parent, like in “Room” by Emma Donaghue, only the reason they’re confined is to protect them from something.
27. Write about an immigrant to America.
28. Write about a doctor who warns herself not to get attached…then she meets a kid with a rare illness.
29. Write about the manger scene from a random young shepherd’s point of view.
30. Write about a young super-genius who gets tired of being in the limelight.
31. Write about a person raised by wolves.
32. Write a story about Haitian culture. Look it up if you have to.
33. Write a story about a lawsuit.
34. Write about revenge.
35. Write about greed and corruption.
36. Write a story called “Whispers in the Wind”, and make the plot relevant to the title.
37. Write a story involving poison.
38. Write a story about the medieval era.
39. Write about an outwardly beautiful person who has a twisted, dark mind
40. Write a story based on the poem “Nightmare Number Three”
41. Write a story about castaways who have to deal with isolation as well as just surviving.
42. Write a story about waiting.
43. Write a story, based on Greek mythology, from Persephone’s and Hade’s alternating points of view.
44. Write a story about Scotland, Ireland, or Wales.
45. Write a story about a child forced to work in a factory.
46. Write a story about drinking and the consequences.
47. Write a story about an unusual remote.
48. Write a story about fear.
49. Write a story about missionaries.
50. Write a story about a cult.
51. Go to Google Images and search for anything you want. Choose an appealing picture. Write a story about it.
52. Write a story about a boarding school.
53. Write a tragic story. Romance is okay but optional.
54. Write a story about a rainy day.
55. Write a story about an epidemic.
56. Write a story about flying.
57. Write a story from the alternating points of view of a child with some sort of disability and his/her parent/s.
58. Write a story showing what would happen in a classic novel if it took place today.
59. Write a story about homelessness.
60. Write a story about the seasons.
61. Write about a natural disaster.
62. Write about a pond or lake.
63. Write some fanfiction.
64. Write about a small town torn apart by shocking secrets.
65. Write about a girl nicknamed “The Queen of Hearts”
66. Wrote a story about a miscommunication.
67. Write a story about the aftermath of child abuse—the effect on the victim, the foster or adoptive parents, and the community as a whole.
68. Write about an eccentric person who ends up being nicer than a lot of average citizens.
69. Write a story about rage and hatred.
70. Write a story about a lonely New Year’s Eve.
71. Write a story about summer camp.
72. Write a story about a salesperson.
73. Write a story about life.
74. Write a story about paranoia.
75. Write a story about invisibility.
76. Write a story about a contest.
77. Write a story about a library.
78. Write a story about the Butterfly Effect and/or some interconnected events.
79. Write a story about innocence.
80. Write a story about virtual reality
81. Write a story about a high school or middle school that turns out to be more than that.
82. Write a story about feminism.
83. Write a story in which a person from the religion or lack thereof you have meets someone with different beliefs.
84. Write a story about the Berlin Wall falling.
85. Write a story about schizophrenia
86. Write a story about paranoia
87. Write a story about a bombing.
88. Write a story about dyslexia.
89. Write a story about modern-day racism.
90. Write a story about a fictional celebrity who begins to hate fame and fortune.
91. Write a story about poverty.
92. Write a story about amnesia.
93. Write a story about writing a story about writing. If that makes sense…


message 2: by Josie (new)

Josie | 25 comments Wow, this is a literally awesome list. I love these ideas, I'm going to take down a few and start working on them! Thanks for the inspiration!!!


message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. :)


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

A few more.
94. Write a story about vanity.
95. Write a story about outer space.
96. Write a story with a personification of a virtue as a character.
97. Write a story about Batten’s Disease.
98. Write a story about a meeting.


message 5: by Sum (new)

Sum | 846 comments 99. You wake up one day in a completely different body and a different life, but you can't let anyone find out


message 6: by Tobi (new)

Tobi Brun (tlbrun) | 14 comments 1. Magician training camp


Unknown poet (Anna) (unknown_poetanna) I'm more of a poet, but I have some great beginnings that could be used as prompts. These are original prompts.

101. Finish the story:
"Sarah Grace Jones! Come down here right this instant!" Yelled mom. Uh-oh, what did she find out about, she couldn't have known it was me who broke the swing at the park, she doesn't know I didn't do my homework. I went down the stairs to face certain doom.

102. Finish the story:
Middle school by itself isn't as scary as it's put out to be. It's when you add the people to the school that things start getting messy.

103. Finish the story:
Four dark figures hovered over the slumbering princesses "yep, these are the ones" one man whispered. Before the princesses could even struggle they had them out of the castle and into the wagon.

104. Write from the perspective of a wild animal whose family deserted the animal.

105. Write from the perspective from someone who people usually overlook. For example: A guy in a wheelchair, a cashier.

106. Find a person. Observe this persons emotion for a few minutes, then write about that person and why they are (insert emotion).

107. Its one am and your mother is waking you up and told you to go hide. Instead you watch as policemen storm the house. What was your mother hiding from you? Was she guilty for what the warrant was? Did you know about it?

If you do end up useing one of these, please share the story with me I'd love to hear the stories.


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