A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2015)

For the 6th consecutive April, I featured A Story Idea Day for a Month. Here are links to the 30 story ideas posted last month:

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.

And here are links to all six monthly series:

A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2010)
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2011)
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2012)
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2013)
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2014)
A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2015)

These ideas are yours for the keeping, free to do with them what you want. But beyond that, there is a larger lesson: The best way to come up with a great idea is to come up with a lot of ideas. This series each April is a reminder of that fact for all of us.

Speaking of which, I recently met a writer named Douglas King who has a book out: “Loglines: The Long and Short on Writing a Strong Logline.” The book derives from a challenge he gave himself: See if he could write an original logline each weekday for a year… which he did. Flipping through the book, here are a couple of examples:

Pounding Flesh: “After his girlfriend is murdered in the cross-fire between two rival gangs, one man trains to enact revenge a pound of flesh at a time, taking on both gang single-handedly.”

Nutted: “The week before his wedding, the groom gets a swift kick in the nuts causing him to see his girlfriend’s baby as a grown man in a onesie who guides him and tests him on his readiness for marriage and fatherhood.”

You can check out Douglas’ book here. Twitter: @douglasking4. Blog: Loglines”R”Us.

As far as the A Story Idea Each Day for a Month series goes? I’m already hard at work aggregating posts for next April. I encourage you to be on the lookout for story ideas. You never know when you may find one in your daily life.