╰⇢ hey it's olivia ♡ ◦ today i will be showing you how to come up with unique and interesting story ideas if your having writers block, or change it up if its just not clicking <33 ✎ add a trope that you love ✉ ◦ what about your favourite books make them so addicting and fun to read? is it that the villain is so cunning and manipulative, that the main character is intelligent and funny, that there's always a hilarious sidekick? make a list of your favourite things in books and try to add them to your story so that YOU enjoy what you're writing, so that you're not bored with it ✎ change or add another pov ✉ ◦ if you're writing it from the "good guy's" perspective maybe change it so that we hear the villain's side of the story, or the mc's best friend. you can alternate it every few chapters, change it halfway, or switch it completely. it's totally up to you ✎ make it a sequel or spin off for a different book ✉ ◦ what if it follows a side character from a book that you've already written and love? or what if it takes place twenty years after that other book and it's about those characters' children? it can be from a book that you've written or from one of your favourite novels like harry pottter or something :)) ✎ turn it completely upside down ✉ ◦ look at your story from a totally different perspective. what happens if you rearrange the events? what if you take the big disaster in the middle like the mc's sister gets attacked but you move it to the first chapter? what if page one is her sister being kidnapped? ✎ make it a retelling ✉ ◦ for example, say you're writing a sci-fi adventure and you don't really like it, what if you took the hobbit and added time travel and spaceships to it? or you're writing a murder mystery and you took harry potter and you have to find out who killed professor mcgonagall? ✎ change the genre ✉ ◦ maybe its time for something new, maybe you've been writing romance for too long and its time to try fantasy? or maybe you have to go back to your comfort zone which is mystery because its just not working out? ✎ combine this story idea with another one ✉ ◦ if you have dozens of different story ideas like me and you don't know which one to choose, why not try to combine a few - if not all - of them together? so you get the best of both worlds? it requires a bit of thinking especially if they're in completely different places and time periods but maybe you can make one of them a backstory for the other? or something like that lol ✎ change the theme ✉ ◦ change the theme so instead of death and darkness, make it so that it's about identity and and trust, or instead of cupcakes and rainbows, change it so that it's about finding the strength within yourself to stand up tall ✄ notes ✧ ◦ if you're really stuck, click the green flag and randomly generate a prompt ;) ◦ some of them are really bad lol ◦ huge thanks to for the code and layout stuff and abbie emmons for the tips - she's amazing!!
