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Most writing prompts are genre specific. You get a mystery prompt, a romance prompt, or a science fiction prompt. Within that you can write the same story over and over without stretching yourself.

The idea of this plot generator is to push you into a new type of hero, new style of story, or different story structure.

The genre can be whatever you want. These outlines can nudge you into new story telling styles.


Story Outline
Each time you refresh this page, you'll get a new outline

You can follow the (details) links to learn more about each trope, use your browser's back button to return to this page.

Here's a story outline.

Use the a Chekhov's Gun (details) story structure to describe

A protagonist who is a Captain (details) (with an Adventurer Archeologist character modifier) (details)
and a Cruel
(Mean to anyone or anything, without care or regard to consequences and feelings.) flaw.

They use a Growing the Beard (details) as a plot device

against an You Have Failed Me (details) antagonist.

The plot hinges on an Anthropic Principle (details)