Story Ideas

Possible Story Ideas

This is a reflection from Prof. D’Alessandro’s question:

Write down ten things that might serve as possible story ideas, drawing from things that happened to you over the past week: people, thoughts, emotions, situations. Nothing is too big or too small, cosmic or microscopic.

I chose my ideas from things I saw in my room, things that had happened to me, and just random things that I thought would make an interesting story.

1. Tomato Farm
2. My Kitchen
3. Championship Team
4. Zeta Theta Goodbye
5. Sitting Alone In Silence
   1. Pick apart every feeling, emotion, thought that comes to mind
   2. Sounds: the refrigerator running, the air conditioner, the keyboard tapping, breathing
   3. What plans do I have today
   4. What is my purpose
   5. Who am I
6. Feeling Like Quitting
7. From a Professor’s Perspective
8. A Long Weekend
9. Paying The Bills
10.  A Day In Her Shoes

If I were to write “Sitting Alone in Silence” into a fictional story, I would add characters. Silence itself could be a character, possibly the main character. Maybe even the antagonist, who is there hovering over and always a bother. The sounds could even have their own characters/personalities. Maybe the air conditioner is the nice one, always trying to calm the nerves and make you comfortable.

While this list may have taken me a while to come up with and pick a favorite, it shows that you can write about literally anything. Every topic has a different direction that it could take, and each writer could interpret it as their own.