A Wail of a Tale: more writing prompts and story ideas with Twisted Fairy Tales from the Wicked Witches Club Weave your story round a central character with an all-consuming passion -- someone who'll stop at nothing to get what he or she wants, be it money, power, revenge, fame or a lover.
Some suggestions: Long-Suffering Lover Lew has an all-consuming passion for Liz, who is in love with someone else/doesn't even know he exists/is married/is set on becoming a nun/is more interested in exploring tropical rainforests or studying gibbons in the wild.
Build your story around a terrible secret -- one so horrendous that the characters will go all out to protect it. Revealing it will lead to terrible consequences: a loved one injured/killed/ruined financially/ostracised by society/sent to jail.
Some examples: Mystery of the Missing Mum Mick is a single parent with three children.
Lew goes to all lengths to win her: turn this into an adventure, mystery or fantasy story with plenty of hair-raising escapades, or develop it as a humorous story with lots of comedy. Some suggestions: he gets his heart's desire and they live happily ever after; or he gets the girl but realizes she's not the one he really loves after all; or he gets her but later loses her because of some flaw in his/her character or a tragic event separates them; or he doesn't get her but learns some important truths along the way; or he doesn't get her and discovers it's really her sister/best friend he loves after all.
Driven by a Dream Don has an all-consuming passion for fast cars.She hatches a plan to kill him/maim him/destroy him in some way -- but finds in the end that revenge isn't so sweet after all.Or, she uncovers secrets that reveal the truth about her father, lover or family - revelations that throw a totally new light on past events. With the writing prompts, story starters and story writing ideas on this page, you're well on your way to creating terrific plots for romance books, fantasy books, mystery books, funny stories, short stories and more.Put a twist on traditional stories, legends and fairy tales.She tells them Daddy and Mommy are working abroad and sending money home. One day, her kid brother chances upon an old newspaper clipping... A character travels to another place -- glitzy city, tropical island, another world, another universe, back in time or into a future world -- which seems at first to be the perfect paradise.Soon enough, however, he or she discovers that all is not what it seemed in this new place, and returns home a sadder and a wiser man, woman or teen, and begins to appreciate what he/she had in the first place.He pursues his dream of building and driving the fastest car ever, but in the process neglects his family/girlfriend/health.He achieves his dream but at great cost -- the loss of everything else.Wails of a Wicked Witch I've been sadly maligned, I'll have you know.Snow White was your typical giddy teenager, gadding about from one wild party to the next, and that's how she ended up with those seven shady characters...
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