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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Need a topic for a short story. Help!?Question: Need a topic for a short story!. Help!!? Its not for a project or anything(No, no, no!. I NEVER do those), it's more or less for a pass-time!. So!.!.!. Ya!.!.!. If you know any good topics then please, share with me!
Besides, If ever I DO get a profect on short stories, I can whip my 'random-passtime-short-story-that-someon!.!.!. story out :P Thank you! Bai!(that is SOOO fun to write)Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm also trying to write a short story!. Would you like to team up and work together!? I already have a plot!. Email me! MiseryWww@QuestionHome@Com Well, it depends on the genre!.!.!. If I were you, I would visit http://www!.seventhsanctum!.com to get some awesome ideas! also, here are just a few that I came up with!. They are mostly romance but they could pretty easily be altered!. Another great link for first lines is http://www!.thescriptorium!.net/toolbox!.ht!.!.!. It has abandoned first lines to forgotten NaNos somewhere on that page!. Enjoy! Historical Fic: The life of a renegade/rogue/poor person during the American Revolution!. Better yet, he/she falls in love with an upper class person! Supernatural Fic: Do some research on ghosts near you! Find an interesting story, plot out both a human character and an extremely DIFFERENT ghost, and then have them fall in love!. Random Supernatural-ish Fic: A famous archaeologist is exploring an ancient tomb in Egympt!. He/she either meets a mummy or the ghost of a mummy who haunts them for some time before they eventually come to love each other!. Futuristic Fic: The end of the world is on its way!. Only one girl/boy has the power to save it!. Will he/she!? Eh, erm, SciFi: Parasites have infected the majority of the planet!. A girl has lived four years of her life thinking that she was the last of the uninfected!. She discovers one man who still remains human!. However, he can't be trusted!. It doesn't help that he's the most handsome man she's ever seen!.!.!. Good luck with your story! When you're done, email it to me at zillahnight@yahoo!.com; I'd really like to hear what you come up with! Www@QuestionHome@Com An old lady (never married!?) who knows she is going to die, decides she won't die sitting alone in a nursing home!. She escapes the nursing home and somehow finds the fountain of youth, getting a chance to live again!. Maybe add some old romances and such, having to drink from it often blah blah blah!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, you could think up some What if questions, and write something based off that!. You can also google "short story ideas" and you'll get a few links!. This was one that popped up when I looked!. http://shortstoryideas!.herb!.me!.uk/index!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well, someone below posted this news story about poisonous mushrooms which is kind of interesting: http://www!.independent!.co!.uk/arts-entert!.!.!. So that could be an idea!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com okay!''life is a mystery everyone must stand alone'' it's all about life! hope it helpsWww@QuestionHome@Com Okay!. See there's this girl and she's not very popular and she's at summer camp for the first time and the other girls tell her she can be part of their group if she agrees to pull a prank on the camp counselor!. She just has to stand outside the cabin in the middle of the night making a lot of noise and yelling FIRE and when the counselor comes outo see what's going on she should run and hide in the woods!. So she does that but when the counselor comes running out she is barefoot and she has diabetes and cuts her feet on some shards from a failed pottery project and gets an infection and has to have both feet amputated!. No!. Better the counselor comes running out of the cabin and somebody shoots her!. Blam!. Who did it!? The other girls or a drunk hunter or an escaped convict/sex maniac who was lurking outside the camp waiting for a chance to prey on the innocent young camperettes!? Our protagonist (let's call her Patsy) doesn't dare tell what she did for fear wh will be implicated in what may turn out to be murder!. The next day she learns that in the chaos that followed the shooting Patsy's friends stole the camp director's car, drove to town stole a zillion dollars worth of jewelry from the home of one of the campers whose parents were on a tour of the Galapagos islands, shot the butler and accidentally ran over and killed an elderly pedestrian!. They inform her that if she tells about her part in the prank-turned-tragedy they will claim that she was acting as their distraction-creator and was the master-mind of the whole plot from the beginning!. They point out the attractive diamond tennis bracelet that was on her wrist when she woke up and ask her sneeringly how she is going to explain where it came from!? What's a girl to do!?!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com |