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After you do that, find a picture, any picture. What is happening? Where is it? When is it? Create a situation.
Now, take those two people, and shove them into that situation. Watch what happens.
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And you can think about your dreams. If your dreams make no sense, then take one aspect of that dream, maybe a person, maybe a place, maybe an event, and expand on it.
People watching is awesome. I find that this works really well in mall food courts. ^_^ That's where I practice my drawing, but it works well with writing too.
The interesting paragraph game on writing passionates was a great way to get ideas! so inspiring!
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Going to a place on goodreads to get ideas isn't really a tip, I'm talking about things you can do that isn't online.
oh, sorry. oops. *blushes, embarrassed*
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If you have any old calendars, the kind with pictures of places on every month, then rip out all the pictures. Shuffle them, and place them in a pile, face-down. Close your eyes and choose one at random. That is the setting for your story. Stare and stare at the picture, and ask yourself these questions- what is going on in this picture? What is happening? Are there any people or creatures there? If so, what kind, and what are they doing? Before you know it, you'll be writing.
Play cupid with the veggies and fruits in your fridge...or write what would happen from the produce's point of view if a tomato fell in love with YOUR face after watching it pop in and out of the fridge. *another thing: get a recipe from somewhere and give every ingredient a personality, then write a story with them.
Neither of these are the best STORY ideas, but they're definitely great for loosening the ol' noggin if you feel blocked...
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Watch something, even on TV. Watch what could've happened and what DID happen.Now, using your best friend What If, imagine a way that scenario could have turned out differently!
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I have a good one...open up word on your computer then type random letters, them stare at the letters and the first word that pops out at you in the random letters should give you a random idea and flesh it out from there
wow, that was a lot of randoms.... but a cool idea.
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AND GUESS WHAT??? I'M LEARNING ABOUT DESIGNING WEB PAGES!!! :D :D :D :D :D YAY FOR HTML!!!
Cool!!! =D I'd love to learn how to design web pages!
I'm gonna learn that next year . . . i think!
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One thing I do to jump start my imagination is to almost cover my eyes with my hands, so that I only see very little of my surroundings. I then very quickley pick three or four objects or people (depending on where I am) and put them into a scene. The weirder the better! The fun is to try to work out backwards how they came to be there, and what will happen next. (Example: tomato, waitress, spoon could be a scene where a waitress drops a tomato on the floor, and when she stoops to pick it up, she notices a spoon wired to something that looks like a bomb under the kitchen counter, and so on.)
COOLIO I AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes I listen to a song with lyrics and make up what it was written about or the story around it. I've written a story of what I thought the song 'disappear' by hoobastank was about.
coolio. I wrote a story about one word.
Dreamer.
Dreamer.
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But that can work with any emotion. And to make it into a story, you could... exaggerate it a bit. Give the character a name.
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But that can work with any emotion. And to make it into a story, you could... exaggerate it a bit. Give the character a name.
Here's the first one:
Your best inanimate friend is the question 'what if?' You are now also friends with Who, When, Where, How, and Why. You would be friends with what, but you must find what (aka, the story) by using your other friends.