What's a great idea for a realistic fiction story?

Answer 1

The crowd of tourists at the edge of the Grand Canyon heard the rumbling sound behind them ......as they turned and looked up...the sight of the gigantic boulder plummeting in their direction..............You take it from there.

Answer 2

This is a wonderful writing/story-telling exercise. Open any newspaper to somewhere except the front page of any section. Close your eyes and point to any article and use the facts as the prompt for a story. This works especially well with the obits. "Mr. Sam Smith was a life-long enthusiastic gardener and once raised a prize winning 47 pound sweet potato..." One finds all sorts of cryptic, ordinary and extraordinary details about people's lives, and they are always good for a start to a character driven story.
Say you use a regular news article. "Nearly 30 residents picketed the management office of the Ace Apartments this afternoon to protest the recent cut-off of utilities." What effect would this have had on people living in these apartments? Everyone would have a story to tell.
The randomness of the newspaper saves you from starting from nothing, yet forces you to use your imagination to knit together your story.

Answer 3

A family wins the lottery, thinking it will solve all their problems and only come to find that money isn't the cure all they thought it would be.

A mother struggles with letting her daughter "grow up" - or the flip POV of the daughter trying to gain freedom from a protective parent.

A person is driving down the road late at night and strikes an object, only later to find out it was a person. How do they deal with the guilt, hide the evidence, and what is the resolution? This could also be someone in a party power boat striking a swimmer and the conspiracy of secrets - how this changes the friendships of those involved.

good luck

Answer 4

The (fictional) relationship between The Librarian movies with Noah Wylie ( as if they were real) and how they relate to either Indiana Jones or the govt agents at the end of the first Indian Jones movie - you know, the ones who said the ARK of the Covenant was being studied by "top men."

Answer 5

The Biblical Rapture, The Ark of the Covenant, Anything related to space, Global Warming, The end of the world

Answer 6

best bet--find an old article online or at the library on something that really interests you but is not well known (like a train wreck that happened a 100 years ago or something) and use it's story for the basics then add your own details along with your own genre....like make it a fantasy with a passenger being a werewolf. a little corny, but you get the point.

Answer 7

a group of people are not happy with the way the world around them operates, so they make up a bunch of stories. then they go around telling these stories to people who are not critical thinkers, and manage to convince these people that they have to believe these stories and there are dire consequences if they don't. this group manages to gain incredible power and influence and are able to slowly mold their part of the world toward their narrow vision.

just be careful you don't rip off too much from the past versions of this book. that would be all religions, and all political parties.

Answer 8

the bush presidency

Answer 9

The Bible, with pictures