While I was in the process of compiling various ideas and devising new story plans for the platforms that I write my stories on, I came up with many random ideas and it sparked this instant desire of mine to spot these ideas get penned creatively by the many gifted writers all around.
1. Plastic Surgery Obsessed Girl (Romantic, Satire)
There's a girl suffering from severe 3rd degree self-esteem issues and inferiority complex, entrusted onto her by a past trauma that she'd witnessed while growing up or the dejection of a loved one, consequently, she dives into the world of plastic as her image of herself obscures further and further as she goes on a frenzy of following myriad plastic-clad girls that had undergone major reconstructions and corrections to their faces or bodies, an idealistic world, the supposed definition of beauty in the society's judgmental eyes, she's just never contented with how she looks after each surgery, and attracts the wrong kind of attention trying to seek a partner, who would only like her for how she looks and the different aspects that she changes of it instead of what she carries behind her appearances, until someone comes along that recognizes her for who she is instead of what she had built her exterior to be, and gets acquainted to what's within her, when she finally finds him to be "The One" and is ready to marry him, she discovers that she has medical complications due to all of the plastic surgeries she'd undergone e.g infections, organ damage, blood loss or just general dissatisfaction with appearance despite her loved one telling her that she's perfect as she is, the thirst to be the best looking which would in turn affect their relationship...
2. Lesbian turns straight (Romantic, Satire, Drama)
A teen girl finds herself after crossing puberty being drawn towards females during high school, she finds herself craving for her friends & female acquaintances while they gush about how hot the school jock and the football team is, which of course she finds out of the ordinary as the society draws heterosexuality to be the norm, so she researches her phenomenon online to find out that she's classified with the orientation of a lesbian. That's what she believes herself to be while growing up and thanks to the modern advancements of the era and the help of lgbtq+, it doesn't pose a threat for her to be herself, however she then meets a boy from somewhere in her adult life and starts spending more and more time with him, he knows she's a lesbian so he doesn't have any feelings for her but she starts to notice an incredulous attraction that she can't place her finger on.
3. Slave Girl sold to Egyptian king (Alternate History)
A poverty-stricken girl is implanted with the greed and thirst to be wealthy through a deceptive counterfeit pact arranged by dubious friends and thus finds herself banished from her home country to Egypt / Greece / India (any ancient civilization with a long history) and sold in the slave market (can include the concept of time travel too for a fictional touch to the story) and is consequently purchased by the King of the civilization, will she obediently follow all his commands or put up a fight and resist? Most importantly will they both fall in love with each other or just maintain a intermittent master-slave relationship their entire lives?
4. Stellar Shelter (Fairytale, Fantasy)
You take psychedelic drugs (plot twist at the end) and get transported after falling asleep into a complete reverie realm, and happen to know from your astrological knowledge that you are indeed residing within a star that could be any star of your choosing (for reference, Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B are the binary pair closest to earth, otherwise a simple search on google can elicit many of the names of the stars. So you get transported to any of them and then notice your surroundings change, the temperature dropping/rising, the terrain evolving and most importantly the planet inhabitants greet you and start to interact with you. You can then start to develop a creative plot based on interactions between you and the supposed 'aliens' (since you know, you're the one that's alien to them now).
5. Seeking refuge within a snowy cottage (Fairytale, Thriller, Mystery, Romance)
This plot hits me right in the feels as I've always been a fan of seeking a hideout from a snowy weather inside a warm little cottage. A girl could be getting forced to marry a suitor against her desire and willingness, enforced to by her whole family, and as she has no resort to do anything as such due to wanting to live her life as an independent, self-reliant woman that wants to create a name of her own within the world, having been always a loner with few family members, she has nowhere to seek refuge. So she runs away from her home and makes it to another city on foot, it's a blustery way as she treads heavily on bare feet, until she stumbles upon a forlorn, abandoned and old cottage, she looks into it and notices that it hadn't been inhabited for years, so she decides to take resort in it till she could think up of a better alternative. She spends a few days there until one day a man shows up from an affluent family, touring the forests and comes across this cottage, and the two meet. Now you can go crazy with the romance here as it's your imagination that decides how the story unfolds!
6. Transportation to different dimensions (Fantasy)
Protagonist finds himself forlorn and distraught after several disputes and conflicts in his home with his parents, friends, rivals, etc and so psychologically he creates an outlet for himself to get transported into, you can make up any type of dimensions that you want like a new planet, prehistoric times, the time when the earth came into existence, a completely imaginary superficial scene that appeals to you and would cast you to get writing to no limits. You can include elements of psychological behavior and spark creativity along with it.
7. Spectrophobia (Thriller, Horror)
You could resurface one of the more latent phobias called Spectrophobia or Eisoptophobia, which is the irrational and heightened fear of your reflection in mirrors. It is believed in urban legends that mirrors carried the trapped souls and superstitious reflections amongst all their demonic fears lodged within the aluminium coating , this genre is a highly gripping one which you can go wacky with, it was also a remarkable concept presented in the theatrical movie: Coraline (2009) in which she finds her other parents' siblings trapped within the perimeters of their house as she rescues them. Highly striking concept, and you can work wonders with this one as you can encompass mental illnesses, insecurities, bullying, traumatic experiences or superficial elements altogether.You can also create a fantastical story using transportation into the realm of a mirror and taking the body of that in a parallel universe, the possibilities are endless! I personally would love to see a story unfold using this genre.
8. Woman fakes death during war (Alternate History, Romance, Mystery)
A war breaks out and soldiers of a team face off a treacherous defeat, they then have to surrender all their bounties and their women to the opposing team, you control one young woman and her family, who is supposedly very fearful of being handed over to the opposing team's men and so she pretends to play dead and her family helps her, she gets buried inside her tombstone but then has to sneak out for resources to stay alive in actuality, until she finds a man that she likes who rescues her and accepts her as one of his own, non-acclaimed women of the opposing team. You can go very creative with this prompt and I'd love to see many different outcomes.
9. Television broadcast compels its viewers (Thriller, Horror, Suspense)
A new program airs on national TV across all the cities of a certain country, and the shows are highly captivating and indulging, and people keep recommending the shows to their friends,family etc until the whole nation finds itself swept away and addicted to the channel, the channel seems to be dictating some kind of an ominous message (go wild) and only a few of the lonely folks that have kept their distance from human beings and don't have many friends or have their families passed away and neither watch as much television, remain cluttered in their houses, as word reaches out that watching that TV channel might be dangerous, the folks gather around into one house and try to work together to help each other survive and to tackle humanity's addiction to the channel, in the process they make new friends with each other and share all their spare time activities with each other to benefit one another.
10. NPC's perspective (Satire, Drama)
You all know how whenever you open that book or movie, you evidently find the distinguishable protagonists that just appear to have some specific extraordinary abilities as the narration of the story unfolds around them as they go about trying to find their brute of a romantic interest in high school being the demure shy girl, now you can twist this around, go wild, take a completely ordinary girl, quite possibly one of the mean girl bullies or the typical school girls witnessing some exceptional romantic story between two nerds or the nerd and the jerk, etc, the thing is, you can go free with this concept as you have a different everyday person's perspective so you could be able to throw in your own opinions and tell the story in from your own point of view.
And that's it for some brilliant ideas that you can incorporate into your own original story ideas or they could just help get the ball rolling, looking forward to seeing your entries.
