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Your own memory bank can be a good place to start. Do you have anything from you past you want to write about or even expand on? Sometimes you can start with one thing and weave a tale out of it through exaggeration …kind of like that game where you pass a secret around a room and it becomes distorted by the time it reaches the last person.

You also might try reading a book of short stories by a particular author. A compilation of works by different authors on a particular theme also can be inspirational… or you might just check out BD’s post above. :))

business-development wrote:
Here: http://help.com/post/188106-this-is-a…

that genre isn’t really my strong point…

ames wrote:
Your own memory bank can be a good place to start. Do you have anything from you past you want to write about or even expand on? Sometimes you can start with one thing and weave a tale out of it through exaggeration …kind of like that game where you pass a secret around a room and it becomes distorted by the time it reaches the last person. You also might try reading a book of short stories by a particular author. A compilation of works by different authors on a particular theme also can be inspirational… or you might just check out BD’s post above. :))

thats a good idea, dunno how i didnt think of that lol

business-development wrote:
what genre?

sort of fantasy-romance-killing people by strangaling them type genre…]

thanks anyway

google “short story prompts”. You’ll find a multitude of pages dedicated to just this…

I’ve also found photographs to be good starting points for stories. Quotes- a productive writing exercise I did once was to have a friend throw one line quotes at me, and I would write at least a few sentences worth of story based on whatever ideas that quote gave me.

i always go to bookstores, bus stops or just walk a busy street. that brings out stories for me.

business-development wrote:
oh, *THAT* genre… — well, that was only the prologue…

what’s more your kinda genre?

more science fiction type stuff, i dont really know yet…

emma.tigerblad wrote:
google “short story prompts”. You’ll find a multitude of pages dedicated to just this…

I’ve also found photographs to be good starting points for stories. Quotes- a productive writing exercise I did once was to have a friend throw one line quotes at me, and I would write at least a few sentences worth of story based on whatever ideas that quote gave me.

ha! cheers, thanks, that really helped, i know what i’m doing now :)

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