Narrative Prompts: Creating a Scene!

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Creative Writing Ideas From Random Scenes

I once invented a car travel game I called "Explain This." A person in the car suggests an unusual scenario in a sentence or two, and then each player explains it in a plausible way. It was an entertaining way to pass the miles, but it can also be a great way to come up with story ideas.

Start with an odd scene, anything that pops into your head. You might start, for example, with "Todd handed out the dollar bills to the people as they walked by, trying to distribute as many as he could quickly, before the police could stop him." Now explain that. Our minds insist on explaining things, so you'll find an explanation if you try. If it's interesting enough, you have your next short story.

 

Explaining an incident is a great idea to develop a scene or short story. For more creative writing ideas and narrative prompts, click here: Creative Writing Ideas.