There are so many stories I want to tell, that I don’t have the time to explore them all in one lifetime. So I thought I would share some of my ideas with you.
You can choose the idea which excites the most. The momentum of that idea will inspire a whole new story world full of fascinating characters.
Here are 100 stories you can steal now. You might also want to use the IDEA ENGINE for your own ideas.
Write a story about…
– A character who is addicted and discovers they are a victim to another’s addiction.
– A historical character who travels into the present to steal what was once theirs.
– A species of alien life that has landed on Earth but can only be detected through literature.
– A world that every person was born with wings.
– A magic object that teleports into anyone’s hand if they think about it.
– A person who seeks justice for a crime they have committed, but cannot prove it.
– A faustian musician who’s trying resurrect a fallen musician to jam with them.
– A person who is trying get back their partner or best friend.
– The quest of a spirit animal to find their human.
– A mythical medicine that’s at root of a family’s tree.
– A fountain pen collection collector is found dead. The murder weapon was a fountain pen believed to belong to a well-known historical figure.
A teenager boy dreams of marrying an alien princess.
A wedding planner who holds a grudge against happy couples.
– A family’s history that is committed to the resurrecting of an ancient art.
– A character obsessed by entomology, which threatens to unleash the plague of Biblical proportions.
A group made up of archeologists that discovered the Atlantis ruins on a volcanic island.
– A knight who spends five yrs trying to break a spell he was cast on him from a witch to find love.
– A character whose friends and family believe they have been resurrected from myth.
– A sailor lost in a storm on an artificial island kingdom owned by an eccentric billionaire.
– A character meets new friends as they wait for the hurricane to strike the hotel.
– A graveyard where the souls of those who have been buried beyond its walls are besieged.
– A bookshop, which acts as the last refuge for a group who are passionate about a certain genre.
– A sudden interest in science by an occultist.
– A vintner who heads an interplanetary expedition in search of the truth about grape blight.
– A dragon who falls in love and wishes to give the perfect gift to a rain deity.
– The guest who suspects that the other guest is there.
Founders of a town with an abnormally high IQ.
– A warrior discovers their clan is at war since centuries due to a typographical error.
– A magical place where magic is a complex illusion.
– A teacher who checks attendance to see if there is an additional student in their class.
– An Innkeeper hires an elf, a magus, and a trolly to protect their secret recipe. Unfortunately, they realize that they’ve trusted the wrong people.
– A blind date, interrupted by an angel.
– A psychic tour guide who organizes tours to help people change their lives.
– A painter who visits another planet to find a rare pigment.
– A character who finds a strange calendar that seems to be predicting important events in his or her life.
– A teenager is faced with the decision of choosing between two schools.
– A builder who specializes in magic doors, extensions, passages, and other specialties.
– A character that is trapped in their mind palace and must escape to save another.
– A character who discovers accidentally the best pencil in the world and then spends their entire life trying to keep it hidden.
– A goddess who awakens to find that her religion is gone and decides to convert the people.
A miner discovers a rare new rock in his quarry and is targeted by a government agency.
– A florist sending flowers to an incorrect address.
– A country that allows citizens to elect AI leaders, instead of people.
– A character obsessed with completing their life story, traveling back in time to fix mistakes or find flaws.
– A character who falls in love to someone from an antagonist clan to lift the curse.
– A book reviewer who is writing his first book and becomes paralysed from fear of getting vengeful comments.
– A character with a job creating treasure hunts but who discovers themselves on another person’s treasure search and discovers an old Coffin.
– A knitter who finds a yarn ball stained with blood and unravels it.
– A character who is scared to leave their home but must travel to visit a family member who is seriously ill.
– A character who tries to steal questions from an exam and discovers they are application forms for secret, mythical orders of scholars.
– A protest staged to cover a large heist.
– A character who uses chess to regain their mental health.
The history of the best-loved dress in the entire world.
– A character who uncovers a hidden message on a shampoo bottle and is motivated by curiosity to find out more.
– A peace agreement that was signed aboard a dirigible above no-man’s land, and the people who fought to it.
– A wealthy person goes on a daytrip and meets a homeless or poor person. They swap places without realizing it.
– A couple who falls in love and is from two different planets.
– A character is called the “chosen” and finds out that they are the one who made the prophecy.
– A society organized according to an old symbol they have misinterpreted.
– A character discovers that beings from another dimension are creating omens in the course of their lives.
– A character finds a baby left in a bus shelter, and sets out on a road trip with a nurse to search for its parents.
– An antique dealer who travels through time and steals the writing desk of their favorite author.
– A detective that must overcome their fear flying to solve the murder of a flight attendant.
– A character that is biologically attracted by danger.
– A character preparing for a rite that involves death, but not the resurrection.
– A lover who secretly follows a character for ten years after breaking up with him.
– A real princess is saved by a gamer.
– Two characters are forced to leave their homes to try to find fortunes.
– A rockband that tours the globe and investigates homicides.
A psychologist who tries to hide an agoraphobia.
– A spaceship crew that has been searching for their way back to Earth for hundreds of centuries.
– A vampire who gives more blood than he drinks.
– Private letters that are received by influential leaders and change their outlook.
A character who discovers that their parents have committed a terrible crime and sets out for justice.
– A character that has lived as an isolated person for many years. Then, he or she discovers that people in a nearby settlement consider them gurus. They have written books and made films about these characters.
– Romeo, Juliet and the Afterlife.
– A character discovers a strange machine built by their science teacher in the basement of school and decides that he or she can help.
– A character who is 81 years old and has just read their first book.
– An actor who awakens a mythical creature from the past while searching for a film location in a remote monastery.
– Space race on another planet.
A tattoo artist that assists a detective in solving murders involving tattooed victims.
– A couple who is separated by a wall that cannot be extended.
– A fortune-teller who is made a suspect in a crime when it’s found that they predicted the victim’s death.
– A former hitman who tries to save people being targeted by an ex-employer.
– A world in the pantheons’ gods collaborate to wipe out their worshippers.
– A person who seeks extreme solitude in order to find their “healing”.
– A memoirist whose life story is blurred by the reality of their lives. Until their friends intervene, they are unable to keep their eyes open.
– A diplomat to fairy realms whose job it is to negotiate trade agreements.
A decorator who believes that the house’s owner is hiding a crime, even though they are in love with them.
A telephone caller may establish a connection with a character working on the helpline and arrange to meet them.
– A specialist in rare diseases finds that the disease is artificially engineered. The patient begins to experience symptoms.
– A character who cleans up the imaginations of others.
– A place where people are able to use space travel for communication with their deities, who reside on another planet. The gods then mysteriously vanish.
– A character in a nursing home who is inundated by fan mail one morning.
– A character with a commute that lasts for one lightyear.
– A person who fears losing out is driven to set up a surveillance system.
– A character who is interested in forgery of all sorts and eventually ends up dying.
– Two film stars who are one film star
– A society that values failure and encourages it.
– A writer who has given up writing.
