100 Story Concepts

Since I’ve extra story concepts than I can presumably discover in a lifetime, please permit me to supply some to you on this submit.

Choose the concept excites you essentially the most, and also you’ll discover that its momentum will conjure up a complete new story world, replete with fascinating new characters!

Story Concepts

Listed below are 100 story concepts you possibly can steal proper now. And if that’s not sufficient, generate your individual with the Concept Engine, or peruse these lists of scene concepts, flash fiction prompts, and writing prompts.

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1. A personality with an dependancy who discovers that they’re another person’s dependancy.
2. A historic character who travels to the current day and causes chaos after they steal again one thing that initially belonged to them.
3. An alien species that lands on earth however is simply detectable by literature.
4. A world the place each different particular person is born with wings and the historical past of how this happened.
5. A magical object that teleports into the hand of anybody who thinks about it, and the difficulties this causes for its proprietor.
6. A personality who’s looking for justice for a homicide they dedicated however can’t show.
7. A faustian musician who’s attempting to resurrect a lifeless musician to allow them to jam collectively.
8. A personality who’s attempting to win again their associate who ran away with their finest pal.
9. A spirit animal’s quest to decide on their human.
10. A legendary drug that’s on the root of somebody’s household tree.
11. A fountain pen collector who’s discovered murdered, and the homicide weapon is a fountain pen that was rumoured to have belonged to a well-known historic determine.
12. A teenage boy who desires of marrying a(n alien) princess.
13. A marriage planner who bears a secret grudge in opposition to fortunately married (or engaged) {couples}.
14. The historical past of a household who’re dedicated to resurrecting an historical artwork.
15. A personality whose obsession with entomology threatens to unleash a plague of biblical proportions.
16. A bunch of archeologists who uncover the ruins of Atlantis on a newly-formed volcanic island.
17. A knight who spends 5 years attempting to break a spell solid on him by a witch, solely to slowly fall in love together with her.
18. A personality whose household and pals imagine that they’re a mythological determine resurrected, regardless that they don’t imagine it themselves.
19. A sailor who’s shipwrecked on a man-made island-kingdom owned by an eccentric billionaire who has been presumed lifeless for ten years.
20. A personality making pals whereas ready for a hurricane to hit the lodge the place they’re staying.
21. A graveyard that’s besieged by the souls of those that had been buried exterior its partitions.
22. A bookshop that’s the final refuge of a bunch of followers of an uncommon (and really particular) style.
23. An occultist who develops a sudden curiosity in science.
24. A vintner who mans an interplanetary expedition to unravel the thriller of a grape blight.
25. A dragon who’s in love with a rain deity and desires to seek out them the proper present.
26. A visitor who begins to suspect that they’re not the one visitor.
27. The founders of a city the place the common IQ of the residents is abnormally excessive.
28. A warrior who discovers that their clan has been at battle for hundreds of years due to a typographical error that will have ben deliberate.
29. A magical world the place all the magic seems to be an elaborate phantasm.
30. A trainer who takes attendance and finds that there’s an additional pupil of their class.
31. An innkeeper who hires a magus, a troll, and an elf to protect their secret recipe, however finds they’ve put their belief within the incorrect folks.
32. A blind date that’s interrupted by a guardian angel.
33. A psychic tour information who organises excursions that assist folks flip their lives round.
34. A painter who travels to a different planet seeking a uncommon pigment.
35. A personality who discovers a wierd calendar which seems to prophesy necessary occasions of their life.
36. A teenager who has to decide on between two very completely different faculties.
37. A builder who specialises in magical doorways, extensions, and passages.
38. A personality who will get trapped of their reminiscence palace and has to discover a manner out with a view to save another person.
39. A personality who unintentionally discovers the world’s finest pencil and spends the remainder of their life attempting to maintain it secret in any respect price.
40. A goddess who wakes up and finds that her faith has been deserted, and units out to hunt the trigger, and convert folks again.
41. A miner who hits a vein of a wierd new rock and turns into a goal for a authorities company that desires to maintain the invention a secret.
42. A florist who sends flowers to a incorrect deal with and initiates a series of occasions that results in two folks assembly and falling in love.
43. A rustic the place residents vote AI into management, somewhat than folks.
44. A personality who’s obsessive about perfecting their life story by travelling again in time to appropriate errors or flaws.
45. A personality who has to fall in love with somebody from an enemy clan with a view to carry a curse.
46. A e book critic who is writing their first e book however turns into paralysed by the worry of receiving vengeful opinions.
47. A personality whose job is to create treasure hunts, however who finds themselves on another person’s treasure hunt, and finally ends up discovering an previous coffin.
48. A knitter who unravels a ball of yarn solely to seek out it stained with blood, and helps the police examine a attainable homicide.
49. A personality who is afraid to go away their home, however must journey to see a liked one who’s critically in poor health in hospital.
50. A personality who steals what they assume are the inquiries to an examination, and finds that they’re truly an utility type for a secret, legendary order of students.
51. A protest that’s staged as cowl for an enormous heist.
52. A personality who regains their sanity by chess.
53. The historical past of essentially the most precious costume on the earth.
54. A personality who discovers a secret message on a bottle of shampoo whereas showering, and is pushed by curiosity to analyze it.
55. A peace treaty that’s signed on board a dirigible over no-man’s-land, and the individuals who fought for it.
56. A rich character who goes on a daytrip with a poor, homeless particular person, and switches locations with them with out realising.
57. Two individuals who fall in love however come from planets the place time runs very in a different way.
58. A personality who’s the “chosen one” and discovers that they had been the one who created the prophecy.
59. A society that’s organised in accordance with an historical image that they’ve misinterpreted.
60. A personality who learns that the omens of their life are created by beings attempting to information them from one other dimension.
61. A personality who finds a child deserted in a bus shelter and embarks on a roadtrip with a moist nurse to attempt to discover its dad and mom.
62. A time-travelling vintage vendor who steals their favorite creator’s writing desk.
63. A detective who has to beat their worry of flying with a view to examine the homicide of a flight attendant.
64. A personality who’s biologically drawn to hazard.
65. A personality who is making ready to undergo a ceremony of passage that entails loss of life however not resurrection.
66. A personality whose lover breaks up with them after which secretly follows them for a decade.
67. A gamer who has to rescue an actual princess.
68. Two characters who go away to hunt their fortunes with a view to get married.
69. A rock band that excursions the world and investigates crimes.
70. A psychologist who’s attempting to cover their agoraphobia.
71. The crew of a spaceship which have been looking for their manner again to their residence planet for hundreds of years.
72. A vampire who offers blood somewhat than consuming it.
73. A non-public letter that falls into the palms of an influential chief and modifications their outlook on life.
74. A personality who learns that their dad and mom had been responsible of a horrible crime, and units out to gather proof in opposition to them.
75. A personality who has been dwelling as a recluse for a few years, and learns that the folks of a close-by settlement regard them as a guru, and have written books and made movies about them.
76. What Romeo and Juliet rise up to within the afterlife.
77. A personality who stumbles upon a wierd machine that their science trainer has been constructing within the faculty basement, and decides to assist.
78. A personality who reads their first e book on the age of 81.
79. A personality who awakens an historical legendary beast whereas scouting for a film location at a distant monastery.
80. One other planet’s house race.
81. A tattoo artist who helps a detective remedy murders that contain tattooed victims.
82. Two lovers who’re separated by a bridge that may’t be maintained for much longer.
83. A fortune teller who turns into a suspect in a homicide when it’s found that they foretold the sufferer’s loss of life.
84. A retired hitman who resolves to atone for his work by saving people who find themselves being focused by their former employer.
85. A world the place the gods of a number of pantheons be a part of forces to eradicate their worshippers.
86. A personality who’s hooked on looking for out experiences of utmost solitude, and their eventual “therapeutic”.
87. A memoirist whose distinction between their life story and the life they’re dwelling begins to dissolve till their pals stage an intervention for them.
88. A diplomat to the fairy realm whose job is to barter a commerce settlement.
89. A decorator who turns into more and more satisfied that the proprietor of the home they’re engaged on is attempting to cowl up a homicide, whilst they fall in love with them.
90. A character who works on a phone helpline develops a relationship with one of many callers, and arranges to satisfy them solely to be stood up.
91. A health care provider investigating a uncommon illness that they specialize in who discovers that it’s artificially engineered, simply as they start to indicate signs themselves.
92. A personality whose job is to wash up folks’s imaginations.
93. A world the place the folks develop house journey with a view to talk with their deities who stay on one other planet, however discover that the gods have vanished mysteriously.
94. A personality dwelling in a nursing residence who wakes up sooner or later to seek out themselves inundated with fan mail.
95. A personality whose commute lasts a lightyear.
96. A personality whose worry of lacking out drives them to ascertain a surveillance community.
97. A personality who has a fascination with every kind of forgery, and the way this curiosity will finally result in their loss of life.
98. A movie star who is definitely two movie stars.
99. A society that encourages and rewards errors and failure over success.
100. A author who’s attempting to surrender their writing dependancy.

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The place to Discover Extra Story Concepts

1. Generate much more concepts by transposing the story concepts above into completely different genres, by changing phrases or clauses, or by combining 2 or extra concepts collectively.
2. My pal, Emma Welsh, has an ENORMOUS listing of 365 story concepts right here. My favourites: #8, #17, #111, #213, #273 & #360!
3. Watch this enjoyable video to see how straightforward it’s to invent 100 story concepts in an hour.
4. Self Publishing Faculty has some nice story prompts divided by style.
5. I’ve one other listing of 52 romance story concepts with built-in battle!
6. Bestselling creator, Jerry Jenkins, has a wonderful submit on discovering story concepts and creating them right into a full story (+ the Greyhound Bus Problem)!
7. Too many story concepts? Strive the Concept Ranker.