Anne-with-an-e craved just such a session to ignite some new story ideas. She found a list of writing warm-ups in an old issue of The Writer.
The timer started ticking and Anne pounded out a list of settings. Here's what she came up with. Have fun with yours!
1. A secret (government?) lab
2. An assisted living home
3. A hospital
4. A mental institution
5. Another planet
6. The future
7. 1940’s Europe
8. A submarine
9. A bakery
10. Another country
11. Pioneer times
12. The Great Depression
13. A pizza parlor
14. An ice cream parlor
15. Early 20th century
16. A forest
17. An island
18. A grocery store
19. The year you were born
20. The Civil War
21. A factory
22. A farm
23. A vet clinic
24. A school
25. A zoo
26. An operating room
27. An old attic
28. A mechanic’s shop
29. An apartment shared by two best friends
30. A convent
31. A monastery
32. A church
33. The 1700’s
34. A photography studio
35. A mansion
36. A castle
37. A national landmark
38. Your family’s vehicle
39. A classroom
40. A fancy restaurant
41. A family reunion
42. Backstage before/after/during a play
43. An alien spaceship
44. A big city
45. A writer’s house
46. A ship/cruise ship
47. A historical event
48. Your grandparent’s house
49. A back/front yard
50. A police station
51. A TV/movie studio
52. A space shuttle
53. A scary basement
54. A newspaper printing place
55. An abandoned warehouse
56. A kidnapper’s hideout
57. An orphanage
58. A tenement apartment
59. A subway/train/bus station
60. A courtroom
61. A small town
62. A poor village
63. A haunted house
64. Prehistoric times
65. Another universe
66. A quarantined town
67. The cell of a wrongly convicted criminal
68. An animal shelter
69. A Native American village
70. A doctor’s office
71. A counselor's office
72. A microscopic world
73. A cave
74. A jungle
75. The ocean
76. An opera house
77. A marine biology station
78. A politician's office
79. Hollywood
80. A residential treatment center
81. An apple orchard
82. A gold/silver/jewel mine
83. A movie theater
84. A desert
85. The Savannah
86. A knitting club
87. A book group
88. An artist’s studio
89. A shoe store
90. A park/playground
91. A fast-food place
92. Heaven
93. An old house in the British countryside
94. Jumanji (haha, fanfiction!)
95. The roof of an old building
96. A skyscraper
97. A garden
98. A waiting room
99 .An epidemic
100. An earthquake
101. A flood
102. An avalanche
103. A video game
104. A parking lot
105. The Pyramids
1 comment:
Oh fun! And great list! I wonder if I have that old issue of The Writer...
One brainstorm exercise I used to enjoy was to brainstorm a list of settings, a list of characters, and a list of physical objects. Then I'd draw numbers for each list, put them together, and try to write a story based on the combination. So I might have ended up writing a story set in a laundromat and involving a ballerina and a baseball bat. Always fun to get those creative juices flowing!
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