As Stephen King says: “…good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun…” Insert a place from above into one of the following creative writing prompts and see what happens. The White House Zen Garden of Kyoto Story Setting Ideas, Combine Setting with Another Idea Potala Palace, Tibet Pyramids of Giza and Great Sphinx Zoo Story Setting Ideas List, Somewhere Famous Trailer Park Train Graveyard Train Station Precious Metal Mine (Gold, Silver, Copper) Priory Mansion Mannequin Factory Medical Laboratory Highway Rest Stop Hospital Hospital Board Room Story Setting Ideas ListĪncient Pyramid Animal Sanctuary Animal ShelterĪnimal Research Facility Art Museum AquariumĬemetery Center for Disease Control LaboratoryĬollege Dorm Room Concert Hall Corporate Board Roomįairground Fishing Boat Floating Fish Factory Here is my list of places or settings for you to begin your own list and use as creative writing prompts. Anything to get my creative juices going again. I also use other lists and randomly choose from one list, then the other. Sometimes when I’m stuck in my manuscript, I look over this list and see if I can’t jar an idea loose. When I am freethinking, I close my eyes and point at random. Of all the lists I keep, story setting ideas is one I use often. I look at brainstorming as a musician practices playing scales-exercising my creativity just makes it stronger. In fact, I keep a list of many things to help jar my creativity while brainstorming-core fears, phobias, careers for characters, character types-just about anything I think might help my brain make a creative cross-connection and get a new idea. Make sure your story world is integral to the story (for more writing tips on setting/worldbuilding, see Entering Other Worlds: Worldbuilding Beyond Fantasy and Science Fiction.) If your story can happen anywhere and your setting does not affect the actual story, rethink it. In the case of Water for Elephants, the setting-a circus-moves with the story but is a complete world nonetheless. The story of Sarah’s Key had to take place in France. So when looking for story inspiration why not start with setting? The DaVinci Code begins with a murder in the Louvre. Setting can be so important to story, in fact, that the setting can almostīecome a character itself.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |