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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 Story Arc (details) story structure to describe

A protagonist who is a Knight in Shining Armor (details) (with a Mad Scientist character modifier) (details)
and a Paranoid
(Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others.) flaw.

They use a Techno Babble (details) as a plot device

against an Evil Laugh (details) antagonist.

The plot hinges on a Lampshade Hanging (details)