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By Deb Gallardo

Another List of Resources for Finding Story Ideas and Inspiration

National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” essays. Many of these short articles from the 1950s to the present can be a source of inspiration or the spark that captures your imagination.

Find story ideas from NPR’s “This I Believe” (opens in new window)

Although this next resource is designed for generating Science Fiction elements, there is no reason you couldn’t adapt this to any genre.

Random Science Fiction Story Ideas Generator (opens in new window)

Seventh Sanctum™ provides a wealth of story idea generators, most with a science fiction slant, but again, with a few small substitutions, you can come up with a never-ending source of story ideas that have nothing to do with science fiction. Check out the other generators in the left sidebar, too, although many of them will be in the list on the page found at the link below.

Creative writing resource for story idea generation. (Opens in new window)

Especially if you are interested in writing for children, this resource can provide you with food for thought, but as with the sci fi examples above, minor tweaking will allow you to find ideas for any kind of story. He provides lists of

Story Ideas for Children’s Writing (Opens in new window)