Setting-Driven Story - Inspiration Worksheet
Many times a story wouldn’t exist without the setting there to support it. Setting changes a huge amount of the story, and can alter the character’s life for good or for bad.
In this exercise we are going to answer a variety of questions about the setting before deciding the character and then writing a one-paragraph summary of the story.
Here are 5 story-starters for you:
At first, I thought it was only the dog making noise, but it was…
It sounded like piano music and it was coming from my living room…
She’d thought about this moment, imagined it, for years, but she’d never expected what happened…
It all started when I accidentally picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport
The cab driver suddenly turned left instead of right and I had no idea where he was taking me.