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Question: Short story help! random ideas are good!!?
Well for my school work, I need to create a short story around 500 words or more!. Please don't paste any links to other sites or say use past experiences!.!.!.I need an actual story line for some inspiration :) Ps I like fictional stories, maybe something about a journey to the future!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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1!. you could do a ______ mystery (the underscore meens blank)
2!. you could have one in the future were a guy finds himself back in time and has to acustome himself to all the old gadgets and gizmos until he can get back home ( maybe add a love interest!?)

hope this helps!!!!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

How is this: world just ten years from now - we've globally run out of gas, no one saw it coming, no alternative forms of transportation available - how are people coping!? Getting to the mall!? What's left at the mall, anyway!? How would stuff have gotten there!? What would happen to civilization as we know it if transportation as we know it were no longer available!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Back in film school I wrote a screenplay about a guy from Philly and a girl from Texas who accidently get stranded together after missing a bus in OK and the adventures they have going to LA where they start to like each other!. It's interesting, silly, could happen and makes sense!. Try that, I got an A!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i had a similar assignment in elementary school, and one in creative writing at university!. My was about a young purple alien who went joyriding in a spaceship to our solar system and explored earth as a UFO!. In elementary i concentrated on the litterbug problem!. in college it was conflict in the Middle East (how original)!. Anyway, I got good grades both times!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

How about someone who lived in the past that travels to the present!? Like a person who lived in England in the 1800's that gets transported to present day United States and their reaction to everything!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

okay, so a teen about seventeen years old, skips two years into the future, and his life is in a wreck!.he has no idea what happend!.when he goes back 2 years, he needs to figure out how to prevent the wreckage that is his future!Www@QuestionHome@Com

you could try to throw in this one idea a came up with which is when someone kills someone else they also die as well so they can't really kill people in the story unless they want to die to Www@QuestionHome@Com

throw in some comedy and make it funny!. try to write about a horror or a mystery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com