Story Starters Continued

One of the most popular ways to find inspiration to write is story starters.


Everyone hits a deadend in writing and needs a little help coming up with ideas. Please find below 25 story starters and links to 75 more.

76. Tiffany was tired of saying she was sorry. Her father was unrelenting, and she had had enough, starting today she would not apologize for something she didn’t do, period.

77. He’d always wanted to be an archaeologist; ever since he’d first seen the pyramids at the age of twelve. He’d never forget the feeling of being amazed at the beauty of history. The fact that the pyramids had survived centuries fascinated him in a way he could not express into words.

78. Jessica was used to getting her way. She was the beauty queen, and perfect in every way. She had learnt at a young age how to manipulate men and she planned on using her beauty as a weapon for as long as she could.

79. Her daughter had been missing for three days. The woman’s eyes filled with tears. She tried to gulp them back. It was important she answered all the police’s questions, it was essential to finding her daughter.

80. The ship swayed in the storm. Tammy clung on the side of the ship for dear life. She should have listened to everyone who warned her about taking a cruise to the Bermuda Triangle. She had laughed at the time but now she wished she had listened to them.

81. The car was totalled. The rear bumper was gone; the back tires had been torn off. The police told her she was lucky to be alive. A drunk driver had hit her, it obviously wasn’t her fault, but she was afraid to tell her husband. He loved that car, it was his baby. How was she going to break it to him?

82. The cave was deep and seemed to go on forever. Lucy looked at her friends reluctantly. She wasn’t sure she wanted to go any further. She stood at the opening of the dark entrance undecided.

83. Richard was tired of not trusting people. It seemed everyone that he gave an opportunity to, let him down. Just recently his girlfriend of five years had blabbed something he told her in private. He was furious, but at himself for trusting her.

84. Susan wasn’t giving up easily. She was highly competitive and was determined to have the best creative writing website on the web. If her competition had 60 story starters online, she was determined to have a 100 story starters. The public wanted more story starters so she'd give them more story starters. Whatever it took to be number one.

85. Blood dripped down from her hands. She wiped them on her pants and glanced around. It was night, so the darkness hid the stains on her pants. She shivered. She still was in shock that she had survived and her friend Josh had not. She needed to keep running, that was the only thing keeping her alive.

86. Detective Skip McIver chewed on the end of a pencil. A serial killer was on the prowl in his city, and he was no closer to solving it five murders later. He knew the mayor would have his behind, but he couldn’t really do anything.

87. Sam was known as a player. He could sweet talk any woman. His friends were constantly impressed at his skills. But Sam was tired of the game and wanted to settle down; he just didn’t know how or whether one woman would be enough for him.

88. She’d been a stripper all her life. The fact that she was forty didn’t slow her down. It wasn’t until her manager told her to think about retiring, that she realized she wasn’t young anymore. What would she do with the rest of her life? How would she make money?

89. The creature howled into the darkness. The pain was spreading up from it's stomach to it’s chest. It needed to feed soon. It’s eyes locked on to a small target approaching the alley. It's body trembled in excitement. Soon it would feed, soon.

90. Krista was becoming a shopaholic. She hadn’t meant for it to happen, but it had. She had moved to a large city, and had a started a great corporate job, but she didn’t have the right clothes. It had started as buying a few things here and there, but now she couldn’t stop.

91. The taxi slowed to a stop. The man got out and grumbled his thanks. The cabby shook his head. Some people had no sense of manners. He turned and started to pull away. Just as he was about to merge into traffic, he heard taping on his passenger side window. Glancing up, he saw that it was a little girl, no more than eight. The cabby was tempted to ignore the girl and drive back into traffic, but something made him put the car into park and get out of the taxi.

92. Darkness was his friend. He had lived in darkness his whole life. He of course was blind. But he got on just fine. He had a fury friend who helped him whenever he had to venture out of his house, and he could navigate well by sounds. The fact that his family wanted him to have laser surgery on his eyes, frightened him deeply. He wasn’t sure he wanted to see, he wasn’t sure he could handle it. But how could he explain that to people who loved him, and thought he was suffering because he couldn’t see.

93. “Get the hell out of here,” the woman screamed and threw a glass towards her husband. He glared at her. This was the third time this week he had come home to a drunk wife. He had finally told her he wasn’t happy and now she was freaking out. It was obvious she had a problem, but how did he help her.

94. He’d grown up poor, and had worked his butt off in school to get a good education. Now he was one of the highest paid CEO’s in history, and he was filthy rich. His story of rags to riches had graced several magazines, he’d been on plenty of television and radio shows, but still he didn’t feel successful. Something eluded him, something was missing.

95. Tennis was his passion. You could even say it was his life. So when the doctors told him he wouldn’t be able to use his arm to play tennis, his world came to a crashing halt. Now all he did was live on his fortune and drink away his troubles. His family had tried talking to him, along with his friends, but he wasn’t ready to find something else to do. He couldn’t imagine doing anything but playing tennis, nor did he want to.

96. A storm worse than the city had ever seen, blew across the city for two days. Everyone was snowed in. Many people were injured and a few had died. It was the worst crisis the city had ever faced. No one had power, only lucky people with woodstoves had heat. Marianna Costra was one of the lucky ones, her husband had insisted on buying a house with a woodstove. She had cursed him at the time, but now she felt blessed. She wasn’t sure her baby of two months would have survived without the heat.

97. Her feet dug into the hot sand. She glanced around in disbelief, she could not believe she was here in Rio. She could not believe she won a free trip. Tabby glanced over at her boyfriend and grinned. They had two weeks to enjoy this strange and marvellous city. Where should they start?

98. The alarms sounded loudly. Puffing, the man continued running. He dared not stop for he probably only had a five minute start ahead of the guards who chased him. Would he be the first man to escape maximum security? He hoped so.

99. The boy stared at the grave stone numbly. He knew he should feel more than just the cold, but he didn't. His parents were dead. He would soon be off to another city to leave with his aunt. He shivered. What would be become of him and the life he used to know?

100. Tina's heart swelled. She knew she picked the right man. She stared at his blue eyes and smiled. She turned and looked at the priest, "I do," she said merrily.

This list should get you going as you now have 100 story starters to choose from. To go back to the previous story starters check out story starters 50 - 75,   25 - 50, and 1 - 25.

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Good luck and happy writing.