Don't you hate it when you have those ideas, those brilliant ideas, but you have nowhere to go with them, they just sit in the back of your closet like an unused birthday present. This happens to me all the time and I hate it, a lot. Well, let's put those ideas to work.
Pretend that this is your idea: A werewolf attends a human school and cannot get caught.
Grab the nearest blank piece of paper, draw a circle in the center of it. Then write down your idea in that circle: werewolf in human school. Now try to expand it.
Werewolf in human school-full moon causes actions to change-acts wilder. Cannot get caught-kicked out of school-experimented on-circus show. Maybe this species of werewolf doesn't turn into a wolf, but simply starts acting like wild wolves and lose control of their inner wolf around the full moon.
Maybe you should have a branch for conflicts, possibly some foreign scientist is in the area. Or maybe the werewolf's friends have noticed him or her acting strangely once in a while, they start to try to figure out what is going on. You could have the werewolf gene be genetic and have the parents be werewolves, or maybe he or she got bit when they were little. There could also be the possibility where your character was bit in the story. Anything can happen.
There could be a hunter in town, and your werewolf has to tell somebody what they are in order to get help and escape, they can't do it alone. But who can your werewolf trust? What if your werewolf trusts the wrong person and they go to the hunter to try and help him or her catch the werewolf. Now what is your character going to do?
Keep your story expanding, branching off from the main idea and turning it into something bigger. Each time you make a new branch, make even more branches coming off it, and even more branches coming off them. You can do this until you have a massive spiderweb of ideas and things to do with your story idea. Anything can happen, and anything will go.
If you want more mind maps to light you on your way, click HERE and look at some mind maps created by other people. You could get more and more papers and tape them together to let your mind map grow bigger and bigger.
Hope this helps you all, have a British day -Kac :)
Pretend that this is your idea: A werewolf attends a human school and cannot get caught.
Grab the nearest blank piece of paper, draw a circle in the center of it. Then write down your idea in that circle: werewolf in human school. Now try to expand it.
Werewolf in human school-full moon causes actions to change-acts wilder. Cannot get caught-kicked out of school-experimented on-circus show. Maybe this species of werewolf doesn't turn into a wolf, but simply starts acting like wild wolves and lose control of their inner wolf around the full moon.
Maybe you should have a branch for conflicts, possibly some foreign scientist is in the area. Or maybe the werewolf's friends have noticed him or her acting strangely once in a while, they start to try to figure out what is going on. You could have the werewolf gene be genetic and have the parents be werewolves, or maybe he or she got bit when they were little. There could also be the possibility where your character was bit in the story. Anything can happen.
There could be a hunter in town, and your werewolf has to tell somebody what they are in order to get help and escape, they can't do it alone. But who can your werewolf trust? What if your werewolf trusts the wrong person and they go to the hunter to try and help him or her catch the werewolf. Now what is your character going to do?
Keep your story expanding, branching off from the main idea and turning it into something bigger. Each time you make a new branch, make even more branches coming off it, and even more branches coming off them. You can do this until you have a massive spiderweb of ideas and things to do with your story idea. Anything can happen, and anything will go.
If you want more mind maps to light you on your way, click HERE and look at some mind maps created by other people. You could get more and more papers and tape them together to let your mind map grow bigger and bigger.
Hope this helps you all, have a British day -Kac :)
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