THEMES 1

Human Nature, Your body, Life story, Life fantasy

Story ideas that appeal to our primal nature:

1. Write a story where you have gone crazy, you have lost touch with reality.
2. A fear of death, or a fear of living? When being sick and dying is easier than living.
3. You are turned into an alien. Describe the process.
4. You find out your husband or wife is cheating on you.
5. You find out your child is doing drugs, stealing, is not the person you thought he/she was.
6. The person you are closest to dies.
7. You wake up and find that you have had a sex change.
8. You wake up to find you are completely alone on Earth.
9. Tell the story of your family, start with all the bad things (maybe the few or the many who did not fit into society).
10. Tell your worst high school story, the day you were saddest/most outcast/disconnected.
11. Tell your story through the eyes of someone who didn’t have any friends.
12. Tell the story of someone who you knew who committed suicide, and explain how they saw you.
13. Tell the story of the meanest thing you ever did to anyone.
14. Write the story of winning the lottery.
15. Write your story about being the most attractive/promiscuous (get any gal girl you want).
16. Write a story about being a rock star.
17. Write a story about being an astronaut who saves your ship.
18. Write a story about saving the world. You are a superhero. You just get lucky or you are just that good.
19. Write a story about destroying the world.
20. Write a story about being very overweight or very skinny (opposite of what you actually are).
21. Write a story about yourself having a disfigured face. You are very ugly.
22. Write a story about being blind and having a baby to take care of.
23. Write a story about being deaf and having a small child to take care of.
24. Write a story about not having any legs, or not being able to walk.
25. Write a story about being bed ridden and knowing you are going to live for a very long time.
26. You just texted messaged a picture of yourself “playing with sex toys to your mother.
27. You just hit a small child with your car going over 40 miles an hour.
28. You have stopped being able to distinguish dreams from reality.
29. Write the story of the best day of your life.
30. Write the story of the worst day of your life.
31. Write the story of the day you had your biggest accomplishment/win.
32. Write the story when you were the hero.
33. Write the story of the day you were close to killing yourself.
34. Write the story about the person who you saved your life.
35. Write the story of a day when you were happy that someone you loved died.

THEMES 2

What you don’t know (Mystery, Supernatural, Your enemy, Horror, Macabre, Afterlife)

Stay close to those things that appeal to your most primal primitive fears:

1. You have a disease that is highly contagious.
2. There is someone hiding in your backseat on a long highway.
3. Someone you love comes back from the dead. They are trying to kill you.
4. The world has ended you are the last one to survive.
5. There is a ghost who comes at 3:17 every morning and stands at the foot of your bed.
6. You are on death row for killing someone you love.
7. You are out on a small boat when a massive storm hits you. You have your young children with you.
8. You are lost in the snow. You can’t find your car. You and your children are wet from hiking trying to find your way. Night is coming.
9. You are trapped in a cave.
10. Describe what it would be like to go without water in the desert.
11. It is the first time you realize that your father is cheating or your mother (or vice versa).
12. First time you realized that you were going to die.
13. First time you were in love with someone you shouldn’t have been.
14. Write a story about when you were betrayed by someone you deeply trusted.
15. Write a story about someone who ruined your life. He or she spread rumors, ruined your business or just ruined your best moment.
16. Write a story about someone you love dating someone who dies.
17. Write a story where you tell lies to ruin someone’s life.
18. Write a story about being a ghost and finding out everyone in your life was lying to you. Your wife/husband was cheating, your boss hated you, your friends disliked you….
19. You have just died. You are looking at your body. You find out there is a hell.
20. You wake up late at night, and a person’s face is very close to yours. You know the person. You were close to them. They died years ago.
21. Someone you loved dearly comes back for a chat to tell you and hear all the things that were never said.
22. A demon is haunting your house.
23. You are in an accident and now you can see and talk to ghosts.
24. You are dead and have no idea you are a ghost.
25. You are in an airplane and you are going down.
26. You answer your phone, and the voice on the other end says that they have been watching you for a long time.
27. You are living a lie. Tell the story of how you began living a double life.
28. Everyone around you have been lying to you for a very long time. Today you find out.
29. Tell the story of when once found out something about someone that broke your heart.
30. You have been sleeping the whole time. You wake up and find out it was all, your whole life, was a dream.
31. Every night when you go to sleep. You get out of bed and live a different life. You have raped and killed 10 people. Tonight you wake up while driving the van.
32. Someone annoying has just started living with you. The person is the exact opposite of everything you are.
33. You are locked in a jail cell with someone who will not stop talking.