150 Free Story Ideas For You To Use However You Like!

Scott Myers

17 Jul 2014 • 2 min read

Every April for 5 years, I have run a monthly series: A Story Idea Each Day for a Month. Over the course of 12 months, I’ll flag 30 story ideas I find in my daily trek through all of my news sources and write posts about them. And here’s the thing: I give them away for free. If you like any of the ideas, they are yours to use however you like.

Why on Earth do I do this? Beyond the considerable possibility I’m just a bit nutty — Giving away free ideas?!?! — I run the series every year to drive home this point:

YOU NEED TO WRITE SCRIPTS WITH THE STRONGEST STORY IDEAS POSSIBLE!!!

You can write a spec screenplay that is professional in every way, yet if the story concept is a mediocre or even average one, chances are extremely slim that script will sell.

You have to look everyday and everywhere for the very best story ideas.

As it turns out, one of my story ideas is being turned into a movie. You can read about that here. So I’ve decided to aggregate all of the links for all of the story ideas into this one post: 150 total, less 1 that is already in pre-production.

I already nailed one movie. Who knows what might be lurking in the other posts.

2010

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17
Day 18
Day 19
Day 20
Day 21
Day 22
Day 23
Day 24
Day 25
Day 26
Day 27
Day 28
Day 29
Day 30

2011

2012

2013

2014

There you have it. Five years worth of story ideas, 150 in all. Well, 149 because one of them is being made into a movie.

Click through. If you like an idea, it’s yours. Free of charge.

And I’ve already got 20 story ideas for April 2015.

Takeaway: Always be looking for new, great story ideas. Critical to the success of your spec script.

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