Free Ideas
Lots of people can have the same idea – the difference is what story they tell with it.
This is a list of free ideas, things that could be stories once you add your unique perspective to them, and links to sites that might stir the ideas you have within you that you haven’t realized yet. You could call them writing prompts, but I hope whichever one stands out to you goes farther than just a writing exercise or time spent getting through writer’s block. I may or may not use some of these myself; it doesn’t matter, because whatever I write will not be the same as what you write.
I’d love to hear what you make out of these, so please contact me. Newest ideas are added at the top on an irregular basis. Good luck!
- the stories behind the scenes of Digital Blasphemy‘s stunning art
- big game reserve of magical creatures; pay to hunt a manticore
- use The Brainstormer to spark a story idea
- a hapax legomenon holds the key to the whereabouts of a lost treasure
- black market for procedure that erases part of your memory
- music box plays a different song every time it is opened
- the stories behind Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography
- alien girl scout cookies
- crazy cousin mails himself to visit family in a different country
- unmanned wildlife camera captures a photo of a yeti in South America
- the stories behind National Geographic photographs
- child’s colored doodles provide the answer to family secret
- the adventures of employees at a biohazard remediation company
- while researching old maps, character find one for a city that conventional history doesn’t think existed
- the first inhabitants on the floating island of plastic in the Pacific ocean
- wipe clean a fogged mirror and see yourself surrounded
- pirates of the fjords
- whenever child gets a haircut, some of their memories disappear
- playing an antique stand-up piano takes the player back to the 1920s
- dwarf wants to sell the family mine and move to the big city
- traveler discovers giant silk worms on other planet are sentient
