Need a NaNoWriMo story idea?<\/p>\n
Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’ve been thinking about this for a long time and you’re ready to start writing.\u00a0 If so, you’re golden and this is post is all academic for you.\u00a0 If not, this post is all about helping get you started. The first place to check out is the mother-lode of all random generators, Seventh Sanctum.\u00a0 They have a whole section especially devoted to writing<\/a>.\u00a0 It’s pretty awesome.\u00a0 They have everything from simple story ideas to whole writing exercise challenges to plot twists and a whole lot more besides.\u00a0 They’ve really got your bases covered and I’ll most likely mention them again in this month-long series of posts. I know those links were a little heavy on the science fiction, but that’s just where I am with writing right now.\u00a0 And, the other stuff I’m going to share this month will, I hope, make up for that geeky focus. Need a NaNoWriMo story idea? Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’ve been thinking about this for a long time and you’re ready to start writing.\u00a0 If so, you’re golden and this is post is all academic for you.\u00a0 If not, this post is all about helping get you started. First of all, you have time before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,35,41,33],"tags":[923,76,924,925,926,48,927,928,929,930,931,932],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun","category-ideas-and-suggestions","category-nanowrimo","category-writing","tag-creative-writing","tag-fantasistnet","tag-fiction-writing","tag-human-interest","tag-judy-delton","tag-language","tag-narratology","tag-national-novel-writing-month","tag-random-number-generation","tag-seventh-sanctum","tag-teacher","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFirst of all, you have time before everything kicks off, so if you haven’t read it, get No Plot, No Problem<\/a>, which was written by the creator of NaNoWriMo and serves as a guide for a month-long novel writing experiment.\u00a0 Getting through this book will help you get focused on what kind of fiction you want to write and what you feel makes that genre great.
\nSecondly, I completely sympathize with you if you’re having a problem nailing down a story idea.\u00a0 When I was in school, my favorite exercises were the creative writing exercises.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because when the teacher gave me a title or a theme for the story, those constraints automatically gave me a direction, a framework on which to build my story.\u00a0 Now, when the story ideas are totally open-ended, I find myself floundering lost in the vast ocean of possibilities.\u00a0 One way to help reduce those endless possibilities is to go back to some external constraints.\u00a0 And, that’s where the internet’s vast collection of random generators comes in handy.\u00a0 Some of those are what I’m actually sharing with you this week, to help you get started.<\/p>\n
\nIf you’re writing science fiction, you definitely want to check out SciFi Ideas – Ideas and inspiration for science fiction writers<\/a>.\u00a0 They seriously have the most amazing collection of random generators with a science fiction theme to them.
\nAnd, if you want to generate both a book title and section titles to help inspire your science fiction novel and keep you writing, hop over to the Space Adventure Title Generator<\/a> and you can almost outline your entire book, albiet pretty randomly.\u00a0 Still, having those constraints and guides to keep you moving forward might be just what you need to keep going when the writing gets tough.
\nFinally, if those aren’t enough, you can check out Fantastist.net’s very own Story Starter random generator<\/a>, which is based, in part on an exercise from the great book The 29 Most Common Writing Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)<\/a> by Judy Delton.\u00a0 If it makes any difference to you, that generator was at one time heavily featured in several grade-school creative writing curriculms.\u00a0 It’s pretty simple, but effective.<\/p>\n
\nStay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"