Start your story ideas with a setting, a time and a place, that leads to a unique situation for your story.
Sometimes you can start a story idea with a setting:
What is the setting?
What could be in that setting?
What could happen in that setting?
Is there an antagonist? … who does what?
Author: C. L. Nichols
C. L. Nichols is a published author of short stories and poetry, with novels in progress. He writes mainly in the speculative fiction genre.
He is retired from a career as a Computer Applications Programmer/Analyst.
He played bass and rhythm guitar in country, rock & variety bar bands, and he presently plays guitar in his church band.
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