You writers (and wannabe writers) know what it’s like: you’re itching to write a story – maybe you have a certain scene in mind – but you lack an overall plot. Happily, there are many on-line resources to help free you from that writer’s block:
This one introduces characters, a setting, and an ending for the piece. {Plus, the site offers many other generators.}
http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=storygen
Simple Plot and Random Story Generator: with a brief outline suggesting characters and plot development
http://www.school-for-champions.com/fiction/random_story.cfm
“All stories boil down to just 36 dramatic situations and takeoffs of those situations.”
http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/ideagen2.htm
Short Story Starter
http://www.gotpoetry.com/Sections/op=viewarticle/artid=39.html
The Fiction Generator presents characters, setting, and a plot, plus a title for the work.
http://fictiongen.boxofjunk.ws/
Regency Romance Plot Generator. (Jane Austen would’ve loved it. 😉
http://www.ugoi.net/nonsense/plot.html
Plot Twist Generator: offers one plot line at a time; use as many as you need.
http://nine.frenchboys.net/plottwist.php
“Rescuing Your Plot” presents a list of storylines
http://www.nanofimo.org/files/d100-plot1.pdf
Links to More Plot Generators
http://www.fiction-writers-mentor.com/random-plot-generator.html
And that’s not even all of the generators that are available: there are more specific ones for scifi, romance, etc.
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If you’re stuck for names for your characters, there are multiple sites that can offer suggestions on that as well.
Character Name Generator
http://www.languageisavirus.com/characternamegenerator.html
“English or European” Character Name Generator
http://www.jimwegryn.com/Names/FictionNames.htm
Character Name Generator (Other offerings at GeneratorLand.com include generators for personal bio and blog post ideas.)
http://www.generatorland.com/glgenerator.aspx?id=44
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What’s that? You’re still not inspired? Well, as I wrote above, there are tons of generators out there. Just give it a Google.
Happy writing!
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