Quick Writing Ideas
~A fairytale but told in reverse. This could mean a many number of things. You could reverse the roles or the events, either works. It’s good practice and helps you move past figuring out what to write.
~An excerpt from your life but told in a dramatic, over the top fashion. We’re all drama queens and you know it. This not only allows you to write what you know, but I’ve found it’s a wonderful way to expand your vocab because it forces you to look up big and fun words. And while these words are pretty frivolous in this specific context, these words will come in handy the next time you take on writing a story where they wouldn’t be so out of place.
~Get inspired by history. Write short excerpts from the point of view of old historical figures. There are tons of interesting people to be discovered in the past.
~Get inspired by art. Art and writing have a common purpose… to create a picture, so the two are clearly linked in one way or another. Perhaps this is why I find inspiration in the lovely paintings of the past. To do this yourself, pick out an interesting or unusual painting and use it as writing inspiration.
~Write an over the top conspiracy theory. The more ridiculous, the better. This also can be tool for building your vocabulary while you have fun writing the worst lies you’ve ever conjured.
~Write a piece specifically for mocking a cliché.
~Write down a list of three aesthetics or objects that you really like for some reason or another. Now try and incorporate them into a story.
~Take a fable or fairytale The primarily stars animal characters and humanize them. Or, if you’d like, take a human based fairytale and make all the characters forest animals.
~Take a work that you really like and give it a mood shift and tell it in a fashion completely opposite of what it was originally but while keeping most of the main events. For example, you take a work of Edgar Allan Poe and give it a sunny, happy, comedic spin.
~Challenge yourself to write a story where the narrative and events are completely confined in one room.
~Pick a specific year to inspire your work.
~Pick a historical figure to inspire your work.
~Have your work center around a specific object. Like a mirror or a pen for example.
~Have your work be inspired by a game. For example, chess, checkers, poker or just playing cards and their suites in general, Clue, monopoly, Candy Land, Shutes and Ladders, Mastermind, or Battleship to name a few. Think outside the box.
~Have a color play a dominant theme in your story.
~Have a plant play a dominant theme.
~Or an animal.