Comments on: Another Seven Short Story Starters

By: roxy

roxy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:37:03 +0000

hi please help jj his idea sounds really good trevor!

By: jj

jj — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:55:54 +0000

lol hi trevor, me again, just wanted to tell you im a big fan of yours and i hope you can reply, you know, only because the last time you talked to someone was in april 2010, its 2011 now and i seriously hope you can help me, im in desperate need of a story starter like that. JJ, no matter what time you reply, i will always keep on cheaking this blog every day, bye!

By: jj

jj — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:49:13 +0000

hey thanks man for the great story starters, adjusted one a bit for a school test. But do you think you could start one off for me with someone running away from 2 people, then the person being chased comes to a dead end ally way and gets cornered by the 2, then something really cool happens. please help, JJ.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:53:00 +0000

Thanks for visiting my blog May, and for leaving some comments. I have also had published quite a few short stories, poems (including prize winning poems), articles and song lyrics. I have a growing collection of picture book and children’s novel manuscripts which need to be sent out to publishers after I finish my current project. I have almost finished the final draft of a children’s novel which will be submitted as my thesis paper for my Master of Arts in Creative Writing. Busy, busy, busy.

By: May

May — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:27:01 +0000

Ooops my bad. Its me again. I hadn’t read the ‘about’ page yet. You do have published books! Congrats!

By: May

May — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:24:17 +0000

Hi Trevor! Great story starters, they make me want to read more. You’re obviously good at english and using words, would you have a published book out? If you don’t you could take this as encouragement to publish one! Hopefully I will one day. Its hard for me to get my ideas together, or any at all. But I have a set topic for a short story comp I might enter. What would you write about if I said: SILVER. I automatically thought of pirates, but, I wanted something scary…

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:02:21 +0000

Thanks for your comments Green.

I accept your criticism about some of them being vague – that’s where you as the writer need to fill in all the details, adding colour, atmosphere, setting and so on. In my writing group we often start with a sentence like this, or a photo, object or even just a word. From the same point of inspiration can come many different and intriguing stories. That’s the power of something like this; we all work differently.

As for collating all of the ideas into one page, it could easily be done. In fact, I am working on increasing the number of ideas into the hundreds and making them available here on my site. Stay tuned.

By: Green

Green — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:53:08 +0000

Wow. These are pretty cool and some of them really set me off thinking about what could happen next. Thank you very much!

However i have two criticisms: Some (but not many) of the previous ideas are a bit vague and have little information about person, place or activity. Also Would it be possible to collate all 37-odd ideas on one page?

Thanks again.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:14:15 +0000

Hi there Bella,

Thanks for visiting.

I’m pleased that you found these ideas useful. I find it encouraging to get feedback like this.

By: Bella

Bella — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:40:38 +0000

Hey Trevor:
Thank you for these insanely awesome story starters! I am making a collection of short stories for my parents for Christmas and these were just what I needed to stop the writers block. Again, thank you very much!
-Bella