What are some good story prompts?

What are some good story prompts?

Here are the best story ideas:

• Tell the story of a scar, whether a physical scar or emotional one.
• A group of children discover a dead body.
• A young prodigy becomes orphaned.
• A middle-aged woman discovers a ghost.
• A woman who is deeply in love is crushed when her fiancé breaks up with her.

How do you write a long story quickly?

How to Write Faster: 15 Tips for Maximum Productivity

1. Know your “golden hours” One of the first things to do is determine your productivity peaks.
2. Create an outline first.
3. Set concrete goals.
4. Don’t stop to edit.
5. Eliminate distractions.
6. Write every single day.
7. Use talk-to-text.
8. Try writing sprints.

What do you write about in a long story?

63 Film Story Ideas

• A character’s home is split in two by a sudden Earthquake.
• A character finds lost paint cans from a famous artist.
• Three friends go on a trip to a foreign country together, only for them each to get lost.
• A character deeply embedded in a local drug cartel looks for a way out.

What are some novel ideas?

8 Ways to Get Book Ideas

• Adapt a story from real life.
• Adapt the plot of a fairy tale or folk legend.
• Create a character based on someone you know.
• Write about a moment in your own life.
• Analyze the plot of a book you admire.

How do you write chapters faster?

These are our strategies for how to write faster:

1. Write every day.
2. Use an outline to write faster.
3. Avoid editing as you go.
4. Research later.
5. Practice your typing speed.
6. Sit up properly to write faster.
7. Use talk-to-text.
8. Do writing sprints.

How do you write a long story?

You can increase your word count in two ways:

1. Pacing: Slow down the story.
2. Tension: Add to the tension, by dragging it out and writing slow motion moments you will be able to add value.
3. Sentence length: You need variety when it comes to sentence length, but longer sentences will help you up the word count.

What is 500 writing prompts?

500 Writing Prompts journal allow pages to lay open flat, making them easier to write in. Wood-free and acid-free, archive quality paper lined with a prompt or two per page will help ease you into your own writing space, allowing you to explore the inner depths of your mind and soul, one word at a time.

What to write about when you are bored?

35 Things to Write When Bored Writing Prompts

• Write about a movie you just saw.
• Think about somewhere you’d like to travel to and write a story about it.
• Write about the first thing you see when you look out your window.
• Try to remember your earliest childhood memory.
• Remember a time you felt really embarrassed.

What is IFS story ideas?

These story writing prompts were conceived on the fly without any research or Google search for inspiration.

• What if the past and present timelines began to merge?
• What if the Greek Gods truly did use to walk the earth?
• What if your stepfather or stepmother is actually your future self?
• What if the sun began to die?

How to write a long story?

Start with a basic idea Your idea is the whole baseline anyway. Duh. This is what your entire story is based off.

How long should it take to write a short story?

Approximately ten to twenty hours of time. We all write at different paces, and depending on the length of your story (e.g. 200 word flash fiction vs. 5,000 word traditional short story) it might take five hours or fifty. But I’ve found that most short stories in the 3,000 to 5,000 word range take ten to twenty hours.

How long to write that short story?

With short stories, the general rule is that shorter is usually better. Most short stories are between 1,000 to 7,000 words or one to ten pages long. Be open to cutting scenes or removing sentences to shorten and tighten your story. Make sure you only include details or moments that are absolutely essential to the story you are trying to tell.

What are some good ideas for a short story?

Even more short story ideas Your character starts receiving flowers and anonymous gifts. A missionary visits your character’s house and attempts to convert her to his religion. Your character is caught shoplifting. Your character is visiting his parents over a holiday. Your character picks up a hitch-hiker on her way home from work.