These links offer online tools (and two related books) designed to serve as aids in creative brainstorming.
Story Idea Generator
Fresh out of story ideas? This Story Idea Generator aims to help you come up with something new.
The Story Starter
The ‘story starters’ this throws out are a bit over the top, but they’re not intended to be used verbatim anyway. The key phrase to keep in mind (with all of these) is “idea sparker.”
Random Plot Generator
Although you may be laughing too hard to take some of these seriously, you never know where the seed of an idea may take you. These are geared toward evil overlord/Murphy’s law of combat type plots.
Random Adventure Plot Generator
A self-described fortune-cookie style plot generator with action/adventure themes.
Random Conflict Generator
Enter a number between 1 and 10, and the Random Conflict Generator will produce that number of conflicts for you.
Basic Plots in Literature
IPL lists what they believe are the 36 basic plots in all of literature.
Related titles from Word Diva’s writing reference library—
20 Master Plots And How to Build Them and The Writer’s Partner: 1001 Breakthrough Ideas to Stimulate Your Imagination
Imagination Prompt Generator & Writing Prompts/Journal Topics
Both useful for generating freewriting ideas for a writers’ group or for your daily writing warm-up.
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