Here are 100 story ideas categorized by theme every writer should write. Why should every writer write these particular story ideas? These are the basics.
Author: Richard
Richard Everywriter (pen name) is the founder of EveryWriter and a 25-year veteran of the publishing industry. With degrees in Writing, Journalism, Technology, and Education, Richard has dedicated two decades to teaching writing and literature while championing emerging voices through EveryWriter's platform. His work focuses on making literary analysis accessible to readers at all levels while preserving the rich heritage of American literature. Connect with Richard on Twitter Bluesky Facebook or explore opportunities to share your own work on ourSubmissions page. For monthly insights on writing and publishing, subscribe to our Newsletter.
How to Write a Cover Letter
Here are a few tips and examples of how to write a cover letter. In the old days, really not that long ago, it was customary to send a cover letter with your short story or poetry submission. For 100s of years it was customary to send a cover letter, but writers are following…
How to Write a Writer’s Bio
This is to help those writers who are just starting out, and anyone having trouble. I’ll say this many times: this is friendly advice. It’s always
Writing Prompt 6: Man in Your Backseat
Writing Prompt 5: Some in in the House (we will publish your story)
This is the oh my god don’t go in there, I’m so stupid for doing this writing prompt. Inspired by all those horror movies where you think the main character is stupid for doing what they are doing. Generally you disagree so much you are yelling at the screen
Creative Writing Prompt 4: Let him go alone writing prompt
Let him go alone: You let your son go trick or treating by himself. He is 10 now, and you feel like he is responsible enough. You tell him to stay on your block or the next. It’s a safe neighborhood.
Exquisite Corpse Game for Writers
Welcome to our game for writers. It is an Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the story, poem or drawing in parts. Each author or artist cannot see the previous artists/writers work. In this case we are writing a poem together. It is a poem about anything….
Top Sites to Learn to Speak English
We searched the web over for Top Sites to Learn to Speak English. These sites are the best sites that we have found. We have submissions from writers all over the world, and I have had a few of those writers ask for help speaking English.
Message Boards for Writers
A new forum is born. So we have had infinite troubles with our Message Boards for Writers. We had a message board that was a SMF, or something, then BBpress, then on and on. I think in all we’ve had 6 different message boards using 6 different software platforms, and all of them have trouble…
Winners: 50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest!
Yes, once again we are doing it! I’ve got a bunch (more than 3 fewer than 10) asking, hey when are you doing another 50 Word Scary Story Summer Contest
Writing Prompts for High School Students
Making a list of writing prompts for high schools students is easy for me, I have taught high school students for around 15 years. These are writing prompts that I have found high school students love to write about.
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Here are our Oscar Wilde Quotes. We are happy to bring them to you. Yes we love Oscar Wilde’s writing. You really can’t ask for a more prolific and insightful writer, and his quotes to speak to the human condition in the same way. He has many amazing quotes, but we’ve picked these 10 as…
Shakespeare Quotes
Welcome to our William Shakespeare quotes page. These Shakespeare quotes are easily usable on your phone. If you press and hold any of these images, then click copy, you can paste them into your messages and send them to friends. We will add more of these quotes to this page over time. Shakespeare if of…
Mark Twain Quotes
Mark Twain Quotes We thought we would put together what we think are Top 10 Mark Twain quotes. Now we know there are a lot of quotes out there, and these might not be your best of the best, but we felt they represent a broad swath of Twain’s ideas. We put them on simple…
What is a complete sentence?
A complete sentence is simple a NOUN (or Pronoun), VERB AND a Complete thought. If you can put these 3 things together with a capital at the beginning and punctuation at the end, you’ll have a complete sentence.