Serendipitous Plot Creator

This writing prompt generator was one of the first twenty-one interactive word games presented at the original WritingFix in-service sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project.

Writer Instructions:

Consider devoting a page in your journal or your Writer's Notebook to favorite plot ideas you create with the generator below. Save good ideas for plots, and then write the whole story some day!

 Every plot has characters, setting, and a conflict that is acted out through several events.  A basic number of events to write into a story with plot is three or more.  When you write about each event, you show good organization by giving each of the events an equal amount of details and paragraphs.

Press the three buttons below.  Write down the best ideas that you are given.  Then think about what three (or more) events would happen in a story about that character, in that setting, with that conflict.   Write the three or more events down.

Then, write a story by describing the three or more events.  As your story takes shape, be sure each of your three or four plot events are as interesting and detailed as the event that came right before it.  Don't rush through one event.  And don't spend too much time on one event.  Make the events in your story equally interesting. That's called pacing, and it's something good writers think about.