Being a writer is hard. From starting at the beginning, figuring out the middle, and the end. All while figuring out characters and plot devices, figuring out just the right word for replacing 'said'. Writing is hard, why shouldn't you use a crutch when you can? Here are some great starting points to jump from, whether they be plot devices, a piece of dialouge, or a bit about a character. We all need a little help sometimes.
1. In the week before their death, people cannot tell a lie or omit information.
2. When you die you find out heaven is real. Well, actually all versions of heaven are real and you apply for them like colleges, you get denial letters and can transfer.
3. In life you only cared about one thing, your SO. After your untimely death, you find out that ghosts are real, living in another plane of existence on earth. But you can't "live" without your SO so you do the only thing you can. Try to get them killed.
4. While deleting your browser history, Google Chrome says "Obliterate the following items from?" and you select "the beginning of time." Nobody was ready for what was about to happen.
5. Whenever a girl comes of age she becomes aware of the secret psychic bond that all women share, an ability kept secret from men for millennia. On his 16th birthday ____ becomes the first boy in history to connect to the "hidden voice"
6. You are the grim reaper. But once you were a living person. How did you become a reaper? Why were you chosen?
7. There are no actors. When a TV show/movie ends or a character dies, they are reborn with the same face into a new show/movie. One of them realizes what is happening.
8. After years of training, you're ready to try the ultimate technique--manifesting the weapon of your soul. You reach deep with yourself and draw, an umbrella.
9. You are asked to do a presentation in school on a randomly assigned topic. The teacher draws "Why did the moon disappear?" when she gets to you. Of course you would get the difficult one.
10. It has been years since you've been afraid of monsters under the bed, pushing the childish notion from your mind as you went into puberty. As you're falling asleep, you feel a hand grab yours and a voice hisses into your ear. "It is time to come home"
11. You can see the darkest secret of everyone you must. As you enter your house, expecting to see the usual abusive father story of your spouse, you stop. It has changed.
12. Science has found the key to immortality, but there's a catch: it can only be applied at birth. You are a member of the last mortal generation.
13. God created thousands of worlds in thousands of galaxies. A major crisis in another galaxy has taken his entire focus, and for the first time, he glanced in our direction.
14. A dyslexic child accidentally sends their Christmas list to Satan; surprisingly they get what they wanted, but with a catch.
15. All your life, you have been able to tell the name of a person's soulmate just by looking at them. Your parent's names don't match. One day, you meet the man who is the soulmate of your father.
16. A person dies in the first sentence. Build them so we mourn them the entire story, but make us hate them in the last sentence.
17. One day, while you are walking home from work, a random person walks up to you and shoves an animal skull into your hands...they simply say "It's annoying, it won't shut up." Before walking away. Seconds after they walk away, a voice in your head says "Finally, somebody worthy"
18. Today the Dark Lord gathered various creatures of evil in the hall to test and discuss the new power they heard so much about. Nothing can defeat it, nothing can break it apart. It grows as time passes, it gains strength from hardships. Today they are going to discuss the mysterious Power of Friendship.
19. For as long as you can remember, people in your village have told stories of angels wandering in the forests surrounding you. You never believed them until one stormy night, when an injured angel appears at your door.
20. Your father was an amazing detective who solved hundreds of baffling murders. now on his deathbed he reveals to you that he is actually responsible for every one.
21. When you finish high school, you are given a script that tells all of the conversations and events that will happen for the rest of your life. It's the day that you graduate, and you are about to be given your script.You receive it and with horror you realize that it is only a couple pages long.
22. Your friends dare you to come along with them to stay one night at the famous neighborhood haunted house to see who can survive the longest. But you find out that it's your house upon arriving.
23. Just because I'm dead doesn't mean that I don't have rights.
24. Memories are currency. Usually it's facts, trivia, or the memory of reading something. Small memories. However, if you're desperate enough, you can trade away whole years, experiences, and the memory of a person. Tell the story of someone who is desperate.
25. When you die in a freak accident, you meet the reaper himself. "I thought I told you to get lost. you can't keep dying just so you can meet me. We are over, you hear?" He shouts at you.
26. "I'm aware he's covered in spikes and craves human flesh, ma'm. What I'm wondering is, why isn't he good enough for Happy Orchard Early Education Center?"
27. Every year on your birthday, you receive a mysterious gift that says not to open until 2020. It's 2020 now, and time to see what's inside.
28. When a child is abducted by aliens, the child's guardian angel joins forces with the monster under the bed to save them.
29. You always joked that the weather reflected your mood. By accident, you discover that's true.
30. You run a tattoo parlor. Every couple weeks, the same man comes in always requesting the same tattoo: an additional tally mark on an ever-growing cluster of tally marks.
31.Tornados are actually portals to other dimensions. Storm chasers are people trying to get home.
32. Everytime someone you care about is about to die, time stops until you save them. This time it's going to be harder than you expected.
33. In a world where mirrors don't reflect light, but souls, you've made a unique prison for the worst criminals. Every wall is a mirror. Many repent and become better people, faced with the ugliest part of their souls. One just laughs.
34. An old status update appears in your Facebook 'On This Day' notification. Just for fun you comment on it. Past you responds.
35. You are the person with the highest security clearance in the world, you've been to every blacksite and secret facility that exists. You aren't a spy or anything, no; you're a janitor.
36. Write a grand, well-written story and see how many memes you can slip in.
37. You get a deep cut for the first time in your life, instead of bone or muscle, you see wires.
38. God appoints you "Controller of Weather." You control and create natural disasters and weather. The first thing on your agenda; Sharknado.
39.There is a device that assign you a percentage score of how important you are to the world. Most people are 0-5. The president is 60. Your score jumped from 1 to 99.
40. Satan is gay and God is only sending gays to hell in an attempt to set him up with someone.
41. "This is 911, we already know. Arm yourself and lock your doors. Good Luck and God Bless"
42. Your middle school librarian has never failed on a book request. As a prank you request a copy of "The Necronomicon." Ten minutes later, the librarian returns, slightly scorched, ancient book in hand saying, "Due back in 3 weeks."
43. You get a call asking for % minutes of your time. Thinking it was a sales person, and you being in a good mood, you agree.The person on the other side immediately hangs up. You look up at a clock and realize it's 5 minutes ahead.
44. When you die, you get presented with 3 buttons. One to go to Heaven, one to go to Hell, one to be reincarnated. You don't know which is which.
45.The only place to eat for miles is the Asian restaurant attached to the gas station. The food is great, but their fortune cookies always come true.
