Archive for the 'Story Starters' Category

Birmingham Literature Festival Extreme Story Writing

Saturday, October 4th, 2014

I can’t remember where I saw the call for story ideas now – weather it was via twitter or the leaflet I picked up about the Brum Lit Fest when I was delivering my Cuddly Science puppet show and workshop at the British Science Festival (I was in the library) or via some other random […]

30 Story Ideas for Kid’s Books

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

It is GothNoWriMo and I am attempting to write lots of horror and/or spooky halloween themed stuff this month – I am also sorting ideas for future writings 🙂 So here are my 30 story ideas for the younglings: 1) Dino Raw 2) Alien’s Landing 3) The Dragon Over There 4) The Goo 5) Vampyra’s […]

Trope

Wednesday, October 1st, 2014

Thought I’d just collect some story ideas together: So we have mythical creatures, other dimensions, historical figures with gruesome acts attached to their names, murderers, being lost and fearing nothing at all, being locked in with your own guilt, plague, change, torture and suspense. There is a question of who populates the story – warewolf, […]

GothNoWriMo

Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

I love my writing challenges and October is GothNoWriMo, a challenge not unlike NaNoWriMo which is NAtional Novel Writing Month where you attempt to do write a novel in a month (who knew!). GothNoWriMo is an unofficial gothic version which runs in October – I like doing it as a warm up for Nano. Previous […]

Story Starters

Sunday, March 9th, 2014

1) Why had he agreed to this? Joe was only a trainee dentist after all, not like proper or anything but it was too late now, he was strapped into the chair. 2) The watch was gold and silver and it filled him with a sense of dread, it was nice he supposed and his […]

Story Starters

Sunday, March 2nd, 2014

1) The galaxies clustered on the map, it was a projection straight into the navigators mind. 2) The building was made of sand stone with a metal stair case that ran as a gentle balcony, up and up and up, leaving a huge empty space in the middle. Stone arches load off of the balcony […]

Story Starters

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

1) The yellow flowers cascaded across the garden clogging all the flower beds and encroaching onto the path. 2) The furry buildings where a new thing to her, they had not existed in the city when she had been a student but now they green growths were everywhere. 3) The little bird had a yellow […]

Story Starters

Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Here are some story starters to help get other people writing 🙂 1) The sun was blue and insignificant hung high in the sky, the hills round and about where a grey colour with dead looking trees stretching leafless branches to the sky. 2) He awoke with the marks all over his body, initially he […]

Story Starters

Sunday, February 2nd, 2014

Fellow writers, artists etc… feel free to use these story starters to get some ideas rolling 🙂 1) The urn was made to celebrate him, he had watched them make it and bake it and glaze it and he loved it but the world was crumbling around him. 2) There was no longer a clear […]

Monster Cards – An Update

Friday, January 31st, 2014

Well the monster cards for the game I’ve designed are on order and I am looking into print on demand as well as having my own bulk stock. Photos as soon as they are here and they will be going sold here and in my etsy shop 🙂 I want to produce an app version […]