I like to think about something that happened at work/school that day. Pick the most outragous thing that happened even if it was nothing more than spilling a drink and base a short story off of that. Do it every day and one day you'll have a story to build off of or one of your short storys might work as a chapter for another longer story ..good luck, let me know how it turns out.

you never know when something funny will happen.

The most random thing will get a story going.

I started one but I really cant post exactly what

happened but let me just say that a girl and a boy

did SOMETHING in the courtyard at my school, and it

wasn't appropriate for outside the privacy of the bedroom.

I am not lying about this one..=

I am in the process of writing a trilogy series, all inspired by the quote "There can be no true leader because true power corrupts."

I get inspirations for poems and stuff

With the most random things.

I wrote a poem

After watching a commercial with a piano in it

*shrugs*

I'm going to have to try that songs always get

me thinking, i know its weird, but about what would

happen next in that persons life or something.

I am so definately going to write about it next time

I do that =

But the hard part is making those ideas come together to create a coherent story with an intentional meaning to it, in the end. I didn't even bother to complete a chapter before posting...it takes a long time to get it that way, for me at least.

But all stories need their conception that can happen in many different ways.

For example:

My story "the Faded Town" has been stewing in my mind for a long time, maybe since I was maybe 14. I'm 18 now. It was a reoccuring theme in my head, or a reoccuring vision (I'm artistic, I drew pictures of places from the faded town). I had always felt like an outsider in school, never having a lot of friends, seemingly ridiculed for ridiculous reasons probably, and having depression problems. But I had lived here all my life. Where could I fit in if I could not fit in the place a grew up in?

That idea of isolation from others and the entire world(becuase how could you be with the world if you are only secluded/excluded to a small portion of it?) though it be from the character who feels that way, or be it actually from the people surrounding him, prompted me to write a story about isolation/exclusion.

So there. Sorry if it was long and too much information.

I hope it gave you some ideas on ideas for a story.

Stories:

-First Thoughts: Just start writing whatever comes to mind. Don't censor it, don't think about it, don't edit it, and, whatever you do, don't stop moving your hand. If you get stuck, just keep writing "I can't think" until something else comes to you. Do this for about 10 minutes at a time.

-Setting: Try to write something just focusing specifically on the setting, with as little plot as humanly possible. This will expand your talent and challenge you if you're a plot-oriented person, like I am.

-Write from the point of view of an inanimate object: I do this mostly for poetry, but it'll work in prose as well. Choose something that's not a living, breathing human being, and try to write a story from its point of view. I've done a hospital room, a telephone, and a fairy tale.

-Find quote and write a story in response to it: I find this very simple. Start with a quote like, "The bitterest of tears are not shed over the grave, but over things left unsaid and actions left undone." Or "If it's worth having, it's worth fighting for." Then, just write a story about someone's response to that quote, or a story that encompasses the personal meaning you find in the quote.

-Challenge your attention to detail: Pick a character trait, like possessive, and write three descriptions of different characters. They all possess this character trait, but at three different levels, so their variance is minor, but it makes all the difference. So, for possessive, it would be: possessive, more possessive, and most possessive. Think about how these people would differ in mannerisms, speech, and even physical appearence.

Poetry:

-Start with prose: Start writing in story form about a subject, and then pick out phrases that just stick out to you. Try to avoid first person narration and connectors when you're creating the poem from the prose. Sometimes your poem will come out easier to read than your prose.

-Write from the point of view of an inanimate object: Just like story form.

-Find a famous poem and do what's called a "Skeleton Poem": Take a famous poem, take out important words, and then replace them with your own. You use the famous poem as a 'skeleton' for your poem.

-Find poetry guides online: I'm sure if you do a google search, you'll find websites that give you structures of things that you provide the subject and the actual writing for. Like, the structure will say "I am (two defining qualities)" You would say "I am the connection and the lifeline." Etc.

I hope that helped and I'm sorry it was so long.

I find a cd that I haven't heard in a while, or a song for the kind of mood Im in and I turn it up full volume and ... dance.

Seriosuly I reckon I must do this at least once everyday. Its really good, and it generally works for me .... even if i just spin around my room thinking about anything i can develope on a character or a plot, trying out different situations. The writing it down is the hard part.

I find a cd that I haven't heard in a while, or a song for the kind of mood Im in and I turn it up full volume and ... dance.

Seriosuly I reckon I must do this at least once everyday. Its really good, and it generally works for me .... even if i just spin around my room thinking about anything i can develope on a character or a plot, trying out different situations. The writing it down is the hard part.

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