Get ideas from here:
http://shortstoryideas.herb.me.uk/characters.htm
http://www.creative-writing-now.com/short-story-ideas.html
http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/giles.shtml
Read collections of short stories:
http://www.google.com/search?q=short+story+collections&tbm=bks&tbo=1&oq=short+story+collec
Possible Topics: remember you can manipulate these any way YOU want!
* Take your favorite word, phrase, sentence, or paragraph from a writing marathon
* Life Experiences: Bio-Fiction
* Current Issue: create a character completing how you want to handle it or how you wish you would handle it
* Take a Reader’s Response where you disliked, questions, or were concerned and rewrite the piece to answer or address those points
* Rewrite the beginning of a story from a different point of view and go from there
* Rewrite an ending or write a sequel
* First memory
* Dreams
* Problematic Fiction
* Favorite Character
* Art…write a story
* Favorite Town days memory—or just summer
* Rewrite the ending from a different point of view
* Find a crucial moment in your story with a character, make them do the exact opposite
* Quotation write: Character? Word? Idea? Event?
* Year in a nutshell
* Labels
* Advertisement write
* Newspaper Headline: what fictional story can you make of this?
* What are your scars, figuratively or literally and visible or invisible? Write about one.
* What scars have you given, figuratively or literally and visible or invisible? Write about one.
* Insert the word “gifts” in place of the word “scars” above.
* What have you not received? What gifts have you not given?
* My craziest experience in a restaurant or shopping mall
* The hardest thing I’ve ever done
* My first encounter with a bully
* The toys I’ll never give up
* A friend who moved away
* I couldn’t believe that my mother made me...
* Putting my foot in my mouth
* What do I worry about?
* My worst vacation
* A “visit” to a hospital, doctor’s office, or dentist’s office
* Coping with brothers and sisters
* A typical evening at home
* Morning madness
* When I was a discipline problem
* We all make mistakes.
* Why do I deserve the job?
* My brother (or sister) made me so mad!
* Hanging out
* Greed
* Alone on a desert island
* How it would feel to walk in space
* What invention would you like to see in your lifetime?
* Why appearance is not so important
NOW WHERE DO YOU GO?
Prewriting Strategies:
Generate ideas, unleash your imagination, brainstorm purpose and genre
Complete ONE of the following suggestions and post to the blog.
1) Create a "graphic organizer" and briefly describe the short story elements.
2) Write a snapshot of the character, setting, or both.
3) Answer the who, what, where, when, why of your short story like an interview.
4) Freewrite: give yourself a time limit; write! Don't stop. Don't worry about spelling, grammar, etc.
5) Write a paragraph as if it were a pitch to a publisher and sell your short story idea.
im going to do my story over deer hunting with my friends zach and scott. i am going to be doing it in 1st person. its going to take place in Grundy county. It will be during the winter and in the morning. My story is about a memorry. my conflict is a deer getting away. theme is deer hunting.
ReplyDelete4) Basketball this year was fun! i liked my coaches, and they are really good coaches. this year was fun because it was our first year in high school basketball! it was fun also because we practiced with the high schoolers and got to see and do what they do in practice. i started the first couple games! but then i started to not play as much for some reason.
ReplyDeleteCharacter snapshot: My character is named Cassie Winters. She has dark blue eyes, short dark straight brown hair and is 5 feet and 2 inches tall. She is 24, skinny and white as the moon. She is smart, nice, and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her short temper get her in trouble and can't stand most of the staff that work at her asylum. She thinks she knows whats real and whats inside her head although doesn't think she's in control of herself. She wants to get out.
ReplyDeleteShort Story:
ReplyDeleteMain characters: Derek Kraemer and Kate Schmidt
Setting:
The story mostly takes place in the school during the school day.
Theme:
The main idea or message that will come from this story is that don't be scared and hold back your feelings, otherwise you will never get the chance and/or experience.
Plot:
Derek wants to ask Kate to prom but doesn't know exactly how or what would be the right way to ask her. He tries to think of lots of different ideas of how to impress her but is scared to be let down by her.
Point of view:
I am going to be telling this in 3rd person limited.
Setting snapshot: The setting is an deserted motel on route sixty-six. It's 2009 and the sun is high in the sky. It's the middle of the desert with no towns for miles. The motels sign is old and some lights are out, but its got a gas station out front and looks comfortable enough.
ReplyDeleteMandy Adams is a 22 year old women. She is 5'4 has dark brown hair and bright green eyes.
ReplyDeleteHer ex-boyfriend Xavier he is 5'11 has dark hair as well and hazel eyes. he is very upset about the break up and when Mandy isnt home he takes her favorite necklace that belonged to her great grandma.
Mandy is kinda rich she has a very expensive apartment in up state new york. She went to visit her parents and they live about 5 hours away from her apartment. Then her ex found the spare key and broke into her apartment.
The who to my story is a 16 year old girl named Hayley O'Shea. The what is the sub state basketball game. My story takes place in a high school gym, in Grundy Center, Iowa. When is during the winter and at seven on a Friday night. Why is because they are at sub state basketball. And because i like basketball so i wanted to right about it.
ReplyDeleteTheme
ReplyDeleteDon't believe everything people say and don't pick up strange people.
Setting
A cool spring day in Maine. Saturday, March 5, 1998.
Point of view
3rd person: omniscient
Plot
Armond, Mary Jane, and Quincey pick up a hitch hiker named Orson Forman on their way to Spring break in Florida. It turns out he is a crazy hippy and is trying to get them to take him to some hippy convention.
Characters
Armond Hampton: 19, white, 5'11”
Mary Jane Palmer:20, white 5'7”
Quincey Ward:19, black 6'3”
Orson Forman:48, white 5' 8”
Theme: To make wise decisions
ReplyDeletesetting: a small town in the midwest, kansas, or nebraska
point of view: 1st person
plot: c vs self
characters: Xavier, and his friends. (not named)
I just decided to write and see what I came up with.
ReplyDeleteAbigale Pritchard stopped at the old house and looked at the small piece of paper in her hand. “483 Tavern Avenue” it said. Her green eyes slid back up to the old house. Oh you've got to be kidding. She was about to assure herself she must have a wrong house when a frail hand opened the door and beckoned her in. She could not see the owner of the hand, but any chances of ditching now had come and gone. She sidestepped past the strange bronze statue that occupied the whole tiny front yard and slunk up the wooden stairs. They creaked under her weight and looked almost as frail as the hand she had seen. She kicked herself for being talked into this but she knew she couldn't leave now. Not after she had assured and reassured her sickly aunt that she would come and retrieve something she had lost here at his very house. How the owner knew she was coming, she didn't know but assumed that her aunt had called and told the woman she was going to stop by. Now she wished she hadn't agreed, looking at the door that loomed in front of her.
Character Snap Shot-
ReplyDeleteThe long brown hair swayed in the cool breeze. Her brown eyes searching the page, or maybe searching something else. Murcia was searching herself. Being alone does that to a person, being lonely for a long time does. The Rotos were new in a town that doesn't embrace new. The town never changing. At least the attitudes don't. Murcia could not understand why she was so outcast. Her mother, Chelo, always reassuring her she is far to pretty to be worried about fitting in. Atreo, her father, never failing to remind her that her family is all she ever needs, but Murcia felt there was a hole. She rose from her seat at the far end of the yard and started for the house only to be stopped by her own reflection in the window. Nothing unusual, but something was different. She was a smart girl, Murcia, but she had little common sense. Back in Vigo she often got herself into awkward situation, but she could always get herself out. As she looked at her reflection she caught herself looking into sad, glossy eyes. Soon realizing they were her own. Murcia no longer had that little twinkle in her eye. A twinkle that, when people looked into them, gave a sense of everything will be alright and there is always tomorrow. Loneliness has changed Murcia, and she decided she was about to change it.
character snapshot kinda-
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna try to keep this story of Turtleman as happy as possible, but everyone has a past and it needs to be told. His name is Turtleman. Nobody knows his real name, not even his parents remember it. He lost contact with them years ago. The only thing they remember was those big green eyes begging them to stay, and his fascination of turtles. His parents did not like him, they rejected him, they disowned him at the age of 15. He lived on the streets for awhile, he met some kids along the way. He saw a lot of other kids in his situation and he decided to try to help them. This was how he got his start in crime fighting. Although he broke the law helping his friends. Stealing food for himself and them so they wouldn't starve. He bought food whenever he could, he only turned to stealing when he had no other choice. Now he is a professional thief with his gang of Mr. Freezer and the Hoginator.
Main character: 45 year old Ian Kraemer
ReplyDeleteSetting: remembering when he was 10 years old during a storm, lives in the country, some of the setting at the hospital to.
Conflict: afraid of storms because he was struck by lightning when he was 10.
Short Stroy.. Who what where when why..
ReplyDeleteWho: Jody Holiday (Mom) Ana & Abby (twins) Brian (Dad)
What: Jody has these twins but then Brian wants nothing to do with them so he moves out of state. Jody doesn't have much money because she's a hard working single mom.
Where: They live in Iowa City Iowa but Brian moves to Florida.
When: It's going to be the beginning of Summer
Why: It's true Brian didn't want anything to do with the twins but another reason he moved to Florida was because he was offered a good paying job. Jody has to work a lot to be able to afford everything for her and the twins.
im going to do my story about waiting for the baby horse that we just had at our house. it was a long drawn out proses and it was pritty cool in my mind
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