Creative Ideas?

Question

Hey, I love to write, but apparently i'm experiencing a WRITER'S BLOCK. Anyone have any ideas on stories. I would really appreciate it.

And, if any of you are sci-fi fanatics or fantasy type people... do you have anything interesting that I could use in order to spark up some ideas for those genres.

All ideas are welcomed. PLEASE :)

Answer 1

I understand your pain because I HATE writer's block. I have a few suggestions for you.

1. Watch a few episodes of the twilight zone. It seems like a lot of today's sci fi stuff comes from this, so It would be good inspiration.

2. Depending on how outrageous you want the story to be, buy a tabloid paper. You could take one of the less crazy stories and tame it down.

3. If all else fails, just take a break from writing and let the inspiration "hit" you. Make sure you carry a notebook, so you'll be ready to write it down.

Also, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer's_block#Various_strategies_for_overcoming_writer.27s_block has some tips.

Answer 2

Put what you are working on aside and read at least two great books before you try to write again. Let the great authors lead you back to writing. It never fails.

Then, if you are interested in sci fi, remember that great sci fi is speculative fiction - taking a problem of today and projecting it into the future. Follow Global Warming. What will life be like 200 years from now??? C.

Answer 3

It was announced today that there is enough frozen water on Mars at just the southern polar cap that if it were melted, water 36 feet deep would cover the entire planet! There may be abundant microbial life on Mars, that, if water were melted and an atmosphere reformed, that life would flourish. A good sci-fi story would start with that scenario, of colonists/scientists in, say, 20 years . . . the near future . . . living and attempting to terra form on Mars by gradually melting that ice. In many sci-fi stories, alien lifeforms, including viral and bacterial, land on Earth and threaten contagion. In the film "War of the Worlds", an eartly microbe kills the alien invaders. But, as a twist to that theme, what if Earthlings bring to Mars something that is essentially non-lethal or merely morbid here on Earth, like staph or a rhino virus (common cold). That Earth organism then makes a home on Mars in the melting ice and due to alternative gravities, nutrients, pressures and other conditions, it flourishes and mutates and grows satient, intelligent and, in two or three hundred generations, begins to communicate with Earth colonists on Mars. The new species destroys the small colony and kills everyone (except someone left alive, of course, to tell the story). Soon, the new species gains size (due to mutations or whatever), and gains control of abandoned equipment and learns. I would tell the story from the perspective of the new species from the beginning, ending with a civilization rising on Mars based on this original microbe from Earth and a school class on Mars for their species far in the future looking at the Earth and someone suggesting the "theory" that all life on Mars had originated on Earth and had travelled through space long before. I'd end with everyone laughing at whomever suggested such a clearly whacky notion. : )

Answer 4

write about miniature malicious starfish creeping forth from the edges of every sea and squirming into the limits of every city. the starfish are actually aliens and at the appropriate moment, in order to destroy a member of the human race, they can bunch together and form a massive beast. where the bottom is usually rough and the mouth almost concaved into the bottom of a normal starfish, these onese have like, syringe needle teeth mouths...and they kill by suckin' blood. the reason they wanna kill people is because oil is to blame for the death of several aliens from 'Xanthallae' and people are to blame for spilling the oil in the coral reef where the certain type of starfish was that they can come to earth and inhabit....see, a buncha aliens took off expecting to find these starfish to embody, but when they got here , they were all gone so all the aliens parished in the sea. They're still preserved in the silty bottom, it's just a matter of finding these aliens, and we'd have all the proof we'd ever need.

Answer 5

Well two things that you should do first 1) Read and 2) Dream. Both of those really do spark up ideas....Personally I would love to read a good vampire book, if you want to do that. Or maybe something more like a prophecy. A kid who finds out about his destiny. Or a magic spell book. Or maybe something from the future, like that book Uglies, except with something else. Let me know if any of this helps....^_^

Answer 6

Start by writing about you own life story and soon or later your memory will begin begin fantasizing about the facts of your life story. We all have stories to tell but we end up suppressing the truth as our memory starts recreating the events in spite of our good intentions.

Answer 7

I am a writer also, and it helps me to think back to incidents that happened in my past. Your best characters can be drawn from people that you have known or currently know. I mean, doesn't everyone have a crazy old aunt or a formidable grandma? Also the neighborhood drunk or crotchety old neighbor.

Answer 8

i have the same problem right now, i have an idea but i dont like it. write about 2 kids that find a page of a spell book or somthing and they make it their quest to find it...idk you could work with taht...

it sounds familiar so i dont kno if it has been done before, you might want to check.

Answer 9

you can wright about a person that you love derrly and write about them

Answer 10

how do mars people poop
wear is the dark/ un seen planet and when will it hit us
why are unicorns so short now days