A Story Idea Each Day for a Month (2016)
An annual series I run every April: 30 story ideas I collect from news sources over the course of the year. These ideas are free for you to use, but more importantly, the series is a reminder about how important the story’s central concept is to the success of an original screenplay.
Day 1: What Happened When Axl Rose Rented My Apartment.
Day 2: 14-year-old Muslim girl dreams to be the first hijabi ballet dancer.
Day 3: Guy Exploits Airline Loophole, Flies First Class Around The World.
Day 4: Before Gates, Zuckerberg, or Jobs, 6 women programmed the first digital computer.
Day 5: The Lost-Jewelry Hunters.
Day 6: Aussies getting their kicks in college football.
Day 7: The Billionaires at Burning Man.
Day 8: All-women team goes on the hunt for poachers in South Africa.
Day 9: A creepy clown in an orange jumpsuit is haunting one Wisconsin town.
Day 10: “The Way Out Wedding”.
Day 11: Put The Girl in Danger! The Radical Courage of Silent Movie Stuntwomen.
Day 12: Harvard debate team loses to prison debate team.
Day 13: The lives of the immigrant women who tend to the needs of others.
Day 14: What Does a Parrot Know About PTSD?
Day 15: Why a millionaire hired a Seal to kick his butt.
Day 16: Living and Dying on Airbnb.
Day 17: Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?
Day 18: An All-Refugee Team Will Compete in the Rio Olympics.
Day 19: The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune.
Day 20: A parent’s guide to dropping your kid off at college.
Day 21: Providing the Soundtrack for Life’s Last Moments.
Day 22: Small Town Turns to Crowdfunding to Save Itself From White Supremacists.
Day 23: 93-year-old man building aircraft on his own.
Day 24: The Rise of the Rocket Girls.
Day 25: Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months.
Day 26: Chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican.
Day 27: Lost iPhone, then strange photos start showing up in an iCloud account.
Day 28: They Built a Commune. No One Came.
Day 29: Graves of the Dead: A Mysterious Mound and What Was Inside.
Day 30: Confess all your sins to this robot.
The other 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)
Remember: The best way to come up with a great story idea is to generate a lot of them.
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