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Name: Date:10 Short Story Ideas Circle the option you have chosen. If you have another option you would prefer to write about, you must present that option to me before you write. Tell the story of a scar, whether a physical scar or emotional one.?To be a writer, said Stephen King, “The only requirement is the ability to?remember every scar.”A group of children?discover a dead body.?Good writers don’t turn away from death, which is, after all,?the?universal human experience. Instead, they look it directly into its dark face and describe what they see on the page.Turn one of your grandparent’s old stories into fiction.A woman who is deeply in love is crushed when her fiancé?breaks up with her.?“In life every ending is just a new beginning,” says Dakota Fanning’s character in?Uptown Girls.?A talented young man’s?deepest fear?is holding his life back. Your character’s biggest fear is your story’s secret weapon. Don’t run from it, write about it.A young?boy or girl?comes into an unexpected fortune.?Not all fortunes are good. Sometimes discovering a fortune will destroy your life.Write a story where your character finds out a rumor is circulating about them A long journey is interrupted by a disaster.?Who hasn’t been longing to get to a destination only to be delayed by something unexpected? This is the?plot of?Gravity,?The Odyssey, and even?Lord of the Rings.Your character is granted one wish, but he or she has to use the wish for someone else.Write a story where your character gets close to obtaining their greatest desire. ................
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