Science Fiction Ideas

<- Part One | Part Three -> Jacob stood silent, marveling at the sight of another human; his first, other than his brother and father. But this man was young. Much younger than Papa. But only slightly older than Roger. “Listen kid! I know this is crazy, but a rope could really help me out! […]Continue Reading

This is a story I’ve been working on in a previous post. I took a break the last few days from updating it here and finished it offline. I’m not in edit mode and I’m going to post one part here every day as I work my way through the first real edit. This is […]Continue Reading

If you could travel through time, where would you go? What would you do? It’s a great question that’s really the start of any great time travel story. But I’m finding it’s harder than I thought to come up with simple answers. Here are a few ideas of things you could do. If you have […]Continue Reading

*****Note: This is a short story I’m working on. It’s currently updated/edited on a near-daily basis. ****** The sun had set across the orange sky 387 times since Papa had disappeared into the water. It had passed 120 times since the day his brother Roger had left to find others. It had passed 3 times […]Continue Reading

Before getting into my list of writing prompts from this week, I wanted to mention that the past few weeks I’ve been insanely inspired by short films on Dust (a really awesome youtube channel if you’ve never been there) It’s definitely had an impact on the way I think about science fiction. If you haven’t […]Continue Reading

Everyone wants to live forever. When I was a teenager my mom married a man I believe was an atheist. He wasn’t much of a reader so it was interesting that some of the only books he owned and proudly displayed were related to cults he believed were currently working on ways to live forever. […]Continue Reading

I’d like to write a new short story so I’ve started brainstorming some ideas/writing prompts. These are a few that I’ve passed on but I still like something about each of them. The Last Ship off Earth A family waits in line to board the last ship leaving earth at the end of a successful […]Continue Reading

This website is dedicated to the process of coming up with ideas. Ironically my personal belief is that ideas are mostly cheap and many “creatives” are far too proud of their “ideas”. Execution matters far more. I believe this is applicable to book ideas, movie ideas, business ideas, advertising, visual arts, theater, etc. With the […]Continue Reading

In the spirit of October and Halloween I figured I’d do a few horror/scary writing prompts. I find it a little more challenging to come up with horror story ideas. Most great horror fiction is just some adaptation of a previous ideas, with different characters and story lines. Family in the walls The Middleton family […]Continue Reading

Did I just watch a brilliant 4th season of This is Us or the greatest Haunted House series ever? (I will not be the only one to make that reference because it’s pretty obvious). Normally I post Sci-fi ideas to this site. But today we’re going to celebrate one. It’s rare that I immediately re-binge […]Continue Reading

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