Many times it the first and last great novel or story a young writer writes. I don’t know is she was right or not, but so many writers do this. Life storyĪ great short story writer that I was studying under once told me, never write your life story, it kills your drive to write. First time you were in love with someone you shouldn’t have been.First time you realized that you were going to die.Story of the first time you defied a parent.First time you were embarrassed of your parents.Tell the story of the first time you hated your toys, or were embarrassed playing with toys.Tell the story of the first time you got drunk/drugs/stole.Tell the story of the first time you had sex.It is the first time you realize that your father is cheating or your mother (or vice versa).It’s a convention of the short story genre, and once you start looking for it, you’ll see it everywhere. Most of the great short story writers, like Hemingway, Faulkner, Carver, Cheever, Updike have all written the coming of age theme. Describe what it would be like to go without water in the desert.It stinks like cheese and the pain is going away. One of your arms, you are sure, has gangrene on it. You and your children are wet from hiking trying to find your way. You are out on a small boat when a massive storm hits you.So many great novels, stories and poems have grown out of this classic, even ancient, pairing Human vs Nature is a one of the oldest themes. You are on death row for killing someone you love.There is a ghost who comes at 3:17 every morning and stands at the foot of your bed.The world has ended you are the last one to survive.Someone you love comes back from the dead.You have a disease that is highly contagious.A vampire is in seducing your wife/husband.There is someone hiding in your backseat on a long highway. I’m bring these I hope each of these are of that same ideology. Craven said he believed that one of our most primal fears was to have our insides opened to the world, like by a bear claw or a lion claw. I once saw an interview with Wes Craven talking about why he gave Freddy a claw. I’ve tried to stay close to those things that appeal to your primitive fears. They are very basic, but they will get you writing. The Macabre is the theme here more or less, genre of horror, but I titled this: 100 Story ideas Categorized by theme, so what are you gonna do? These are just a few of our horror ideas. You wake up and find that you have had a sex change.If you are rich, be poor, if you nice, be mean…. Tell a lie about who you are, your life that is the exact opposite of your real life.You find out your child is doing drugs, stealing, is not the person you thought he/she was.You find out your husband or wife is cheating on you.You only have all the foods you hate left in the world to eat.The person that you hate most, you end up just like. Write about becoming like someone you hate.Something that is counter from your deepest belief (racism, god, cultural believes). Write a story where you have gone crazy, you have lost touch with reality.If you are homosexual write a straight scene. If you straight write a homosexual sex scene. Write a sex scene with concerning someone who is different from your orientation.Write a sex scene with someone that you would never find attractive.The man character in these ideas should be you! Even if you turn yourself into a character. These things I believe are deep in our brain, and when they are challenged, generally, I’ve found that they inspire creativity better than you any other story idea. These are story ideas that appeal to our primal nature. As always I wish you the very best of luck in your writing. If you look at these story ideas you will see that many famous works have grown out of them, and if you are stuck in your writing, these story ideas are for you. Also, you will never have people saying they read the idea for your great story on the web. It’s nice not to do any work and then claim you are responsible for something. I hate it when you read good story ideas (like other lists like this on the web) that are so specific if you actually use them and write a great story, the person who wrote the story idea can go around the web claiming he “is responsible” for the story being written. These ideas I’ve kept purposefully vague.
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