- “It began with a whisper. More and more whispers joined it until it was a deafening wall of sound.”
- They were playing hide and seek when he disappeared. She spent the rest of her life looking for him.
- You walk into your friends’ room to find him preening his feathers.
- Their wings were stuck. They did not have the energy it would take to magic them away. (Could go with prompt 3)
- Midnight on your 18th birthday you wake up in your soulmates body. You have one hour to do what you want.
- Two high schoolers end up in the yearbook as ‘Most likely to get married’. They’re really close best friends.
- “The raindrops hit his skin like knives, but he didn’t move, the bus would come any minute.”
- Write a story about a person who has a mental illness where he/she cannot say, “I love you.” What happens? Does he or she ever get over it? How? (Compulsive liar or narcissist)
- Write a story about someone who is a serial monogamist and who may not understand what love truly means.
- Write a story in the format of love letters.
- Make a story about someone searching for what love means. (Can mean family love, romantic love or friendship love)
- Someone doesn’t believe in love and thinks they’ll never find it.
- If love could take the form of an object, animal or human being. This being represented, love. The story revolves around a group of characters who come into contact with the manifestation of love. (Ants-you could never really get rid of them no matter what)
- If love had a mind of its own. What beauty or tragedy would come out of it? If we happened to follow it completely with trust?
- Comedy over partner A trying to tell partner B they love them (for the first time). It always goes horribly wrong.
- Random object triggers an object of memory lapse in a character. Including animate or inanimate object that can trigger it. Character interactions with the world, a choice for them to be aware or unaware of these happenings.
- Tragedy happened. Don’t make it clear of what happened. Use thoughts, imagery and other elements to hint it.
- A musician is unable to play music again after a tragic accident. (Could be a violinist, pianist and they become paralyzed)
- Character wakes up to find someone or something else lying in bed.
- After waking up, the character finds a corpse on the floor, beside his bed.
- Man is severely depressed and strongly contemplating suicide.
- Main character’s goal is to not let a loved one commit suicide.
- Story over the main character waking up from a failed suicide attempt. (They could be trying over and over, but always live in the end)
- Someone needs to solve a murder mystery. However, their main resource is someone who suffers from a memory impairment and can only retrace certain details at a specific time.
- Main character’s best friend passed away and is told through the phone call.
- “It was then you realized that hell was winter, and you were in love with it.”
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