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#14: The Plot Thickens

This week, we launched a very fun* tool at Reedsy: our brand-new Plot Generator!

Turning to writing prompts is a great idea when you need that extra bit of help coming up with ideas to write about. This plot generator is here to do the same, offering more than 1 million** story combinations to inspire you.

You can choose to generate a fantasy, drama, mystery, romance, or sci-fi plot — or, just hit "random" and you'll get a little bit of everything! Plot ideas include characters, a theme, a setting, and even a plot twist... with just one click of the finger!

Each of this week's prompts is a plot element pulled right from our generator. You can feel free to incorporate as many of the elements in your story as you want — whether it's one or all five!

*Almost too much fun, if that's possible.
**Actually, trillions!

This week's prompts

It's about a photographer, who is a rookie.

Character – 34 stories

It's a literary fiction story about growing up.

Novel – 39 stories

It kicks off on a yacht with the delivery of an important letter.

Short Story – 35 stories

Someone in the story has a lot of hard lessons to learn.

Sad – 35 stories

And there's a twist! It actually all took place in the past.

High School – 32 stories

Stories

“Will She Never Learn?” by Aurora Lung

Submitted to Contest #14

Once there lived a princess. She was the princess of a large and prosperous kingdom, and her name was Alarena. Alarena was beautiful and the most intelligent young woman anyone would ever meet. No one had ever really met her or talked to her fully, but she would always give witty and clever speeches to her father's people whenever the royal family visited the kingdom. However, the princess's personal servants, although they would never dare to tell, knew her real personality and demeanor. Was she ladylike? Elegant? Angelic? Kind? None of the...

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“The Girl Next Door” by Megan Rosevear

Submitted to Contest #14

I can’t help but hate Erica Clearwater. She's impossible, but in a way that only I'm able to see. It feels like I’m the last person alive who isn’t under her spell. She always finds a way to sneak into my mind, even when I’m keeping to myself, walking down the hallway with my head down. Her student council poster jumps from the wall and slides in my way so I have to see her and her crooked nose and freckles.The worst part is that just because I hate her, doesn’t mean I can do anything about it. She’s lived next door my whole l...

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“The Pulpit” by Emily Butt

Submitted to Contest #14

There is nothing comforting about the hymns being sung. There is nothing angelic in the face of the man who calls himself an Apostle. He stands at the pulpit, wrapped in artificial light, and it makes the young girl's heart bleed. She wants to have blind faith. She wants to be like her brothers and sisters, with their closed eyes and gentle voices. They sway in time to the music. She doesn't like the music. But she moves alongside them, eyes open and yet unseeing.The sermon is short. It's short but long and filled with malice, vaguely disgu...

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“A Diner Takes In Two Men by Kaleb Bennett” by Kaleb Bennett

Submitted to Contest #14

There’s a hold over a diner, a song by ‘Bob Crosby and the Bob Cats’. It’s a song, ‘Dear Hearts and Gentle People’, but it’s also a mascot, a welcoming symphony to the most open. It let in two gentlemen in plaid suits, one blue while the other preferred an oak brown. They sit two tables from the entrance, right beside the window. The man in the oak suit, he’s calmly furious, and his partner, an older gentleman, he’s along for the ride. What did they order? The old man asked “Burger, steak burger without the mayo, with fries...

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“The Daughter of Darkness and Light” by Alyssa Clark

Submitted to Contest #14

“Poor dear. She barely touched her food. I wonder how much longer until she finds out,” one of the maids muses as she gathers up the dishes. “If she hasn’t figured it out by now she never will. Just look at her!” A second adds. “But the Queen is set on keeping her in the dark for as long as she can.” “And when she does find out there won’t be much reason for her to stay here.” “A good thing too. Then maybe the King will be able to relax for once.” The two laugh and continue to gossip as they clean. A knot forms in my stomac...

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“No Extration Treaty” by Gary Hoffman

Submitted to Contest #14

No Extradition Treaty “How’d it go?” She cocked her head to one side and got a slight sneer on her face. “How do you think it went? Older man, younger woman, body much better than his wife has. Also, I did manage to brush my ‘bigger than your step-mama’s’ boobs against his arm a couple of time...

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“Love Is Complicated” by Shannen Quiros

Submitted to Contest #14

In all of my 23 years of life, I’ve had to learn a lot of harsh lessons...The one that hurt the most was about romantic love. When I was around seventeen years old, I met this dude that I’ll call “L”. When we first met in a multiplayer game, “L” wasn’t welcoming to me but something just pulled me towards him. I couldn’t explain it but at that moment I didn’t want to lose him. I asked him if I could add him to my in-game friend’s list. He gladly obliged and said yes so I was pretty happy about that. The days went on and turned into months as ...

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“The Guy From Work” by David Morrison

Submitted to Contest #14

He was jealous, angry, and bitter. Just the mention of "the guy from work" made his insecurities boil up inside of him. Peter didn't like feeling this way, but the lessons he learned from the past were too hard wired in him. Women were evil to him, but he needed their love, or at least, he believed he did. After all society tells us that we are failures if we are not loved. Something that the 41 year old didn't realize is, that if one is unable to love themselves, than it would be impossible for anyone else to. He had been dating Juli...

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“Confusing Episodes” by Misa Romero

Submitted to Contest #14

Ellie's POVI look at my reflection in the mirror. I pass my hand up my wrist to my shoulder feeling the old scar left behind. The scar began at the center of my left forearm and ended at the top of my shoulder. I try keeping my composure as my pale hands shake uncontrollably. Thoughts racing as they brought back voices that were sweet but painful. Screams... screams... The shakings back..."You have your mother's eyes Ellie! Look you've got emeralds!""Don't ever let anyone ever tell you that your eyes aren't treasures. Got it?"Every time I he...

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“All is well” by SHYAMALA BHUVANACHANDRAN

Submitted to Contest #14

I was busy watching TV when the phone rang. Susheela, my daughter called. “Amma, we are coming there” and my son in law took it from her and continued “to seek your blessings and there is a good news for you”. My joy knew no bounds – as though thousand flower pots were set ablaze at one stroke. The good news from my daughter was long overdue. At last God showered His bountiful mercy upon the couple.Whenever I was a bit worried on her account, my husband used to assure that as per her horoscope, she would be blessed with two kids and hence th...

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“Once more” by Candace Thompson

Submitted to Contest #14

This room is too hot. I can’t help but want to complain over the sweltering degrees of the room especially provided that it’s damn near winter already. Fall is a season that I feel I could do without. There is something so fickle about it, at least in Marritonis. It’s November 3rd, 2016, my name is Vini Wiesner, I am 15 years old, and I am currently spending my days between the padded walls of Bristico county facility for the mentally deranged. It is always too hot here. The f...

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“the creatures” by Death Eater

Submitted to Contest #14

I moved my hand back and forth until I could not tell if it was there or there. My back pressed against my blanket. Darkness surrounds me. A blue curtain covers my tall window. I always try to peek through them before anybody would see me. My grey itchy pillows laid from the bottom of my bed to the top. They were sort of type of wall protecting me from what was out of my bedroom. Because what larked out there was dangerous to my sanity.Every time I step into my bedroom, that surely someone will call a closet, I instantly relax. My once tense...

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“Papa's Rose Garden” by Kathy Wolfe

Submitted to Contest #14

"There you are mama. You need your sweater. Let's put it on before you catch a chill." Brian bent down and gently lifted his mother by the arms, placing each in the soft pink knitted cardigan. 'This was papa's favorite dear. He's forgotten it. We must clip this best bloom immediately and get it to the exhibition before the registration closes. Poor soul must be beside himself forgetting this 'Old Charley' variety. It'll get him the gold prize for sure this year.." Brian nodded an affirmation and gently guided his frail mother from the imma...

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“Dare” by Helen Ko

Submitted to Contest #14

Dares are for fools, and those who respond to them are doubly fools----my brother told me this on several occasions. I, being a younger brother resentful of the admitted superiority of said brother in every arena in which we competed, was not inclined to pay attention to such advice and thus, ignored it. Perched precariously atop the church steeple, I decided that he was right. I also decided that those who ignored the wisdom of elder brothers were triple fools. “Come on and take the picture already!” called out he who had issued the d...

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“Awkward Encounter” by Gabriela Tajzler

Submitted to Contest #14

Gregory never expected to be dropped off at his grandfathers house that night. Yet there he stood, whipped from all directions by the violent snow destroying all in its vicinity. If it were not for the windows dimly illuminating in front of him, he might as well have been walking blind trying to get inside. What made it worse was the fact the Gregory had no overcoat to protect his own warmth so every wisp of snow felt no less painful than a lash from the Devil. In his mind, Gregory knew his grandfather shouldn't be home, making things easier...

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