Help! I need to write a short story and I'm stuck with what to write it about, Any Ideas?

Question

I need to write a short story for English but you can only use these titles:

Trapped, Secrets or A Strange Shape

I need to pick one and write a creative short story with that title! I'm totally stuck. Any ideas ?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

Hmm.. Trapped could maybe be the story of a kidnapped young woman who fights for freedom. Maybe a girl is out for a hike or a run in a forest trail and breaks her ankle falling into a sort of ditch. She has no means of help, her cell phone is broken and all she can do is scream and wait. It could be a tale of what goes on in your head when you think you are going to die, there is no way out, you are trapped.

Secrets could be about a girl who is secretly in love with a man she pretends to hate and he seems to hate her too. They do nothing but bicker and insult each-other but end up falling in love. No one knows (even the two in love don't know) until the end when he saves her in some extremely heroic way. (I know it's cliche but it's an idea to start with.)

A Strange Shape could possibly be a mystery about a girl/guy who hears screaming at night and follows the sound until he/she sees the shadow, a strange shape, almost inhuman before discovering the bloody scene. Or the strange shape could be something that the main character sees in a dream, the dreams become so prolific that he/she cannot ignore it any longer and it leads them on a journey to an extraordinary destiny (another world, a murder, a hidden curse, a prophecy, etc.)

At least I tried to give you a start. Good luck! =)

Answer 2

Do a computer search for the "Space Needle Seattle"

The Space needle are a really whacky shape.

If you click on the various icons on the site and learn about the needle.

and what it is like inside. E,g. the glass floor of the restaurant right at the top. A story is sure to come into your head. Good luck!!

Answer 3

If you want to make a captivating story, maybe write about someone who's trapped in an abusive relationship, or is addicted to drugs. Trapped  sounds like the title of a story that has to do with that. Stories like that always seem to be interesting because they are realistic. Good luck! :)

Answer 4

I think that all three titles are quite good as you can work with them freely, by using 'Trapped' you could write about not only being physically trapped but emotionally, there are so many different ways you could go about writing around this title. Secrets is an obvious one, there's going to have to be a secret somewhere. A strange shape could be anything, as everything has a shape!

I would probably start off by picking your title and then deciding which way you want to go about writing it (as I said the two ways of going about 'Trapped' - emotionally or physically). The best piece of advice I'd give for writing the story is writing about what you know. A personal experience, however you may not have experienced anything that is described by these particular titles. So make it up! With making it up, you can create a total new storyline, characters and everything is up to you. The characters emotions can be set around how you may have felt some times. Remember to use different styles of writing, use metaphors, similes, etc.. Hope I helped! :) x

Answer 5

Well the short titles like trapped and secrets suggest horror or a thriller. So maybe you could think about a film you've seen, don't copy the storyline, just take parts of the story and add a bit of your own.

Or if you look at one of the titles try and create an image from that title, with that main image create a story around it eg. trapped - trapped in a cellar or in a small space where you can't breath. a strange shape - picture a strange shape and right about what you see

You could also try doing it in first person. Think of a time when you've felt trapped and write about it but make some of it up to create more drama.

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

trapped....... about a iraqi child or adult or a american soldier trapped in a war zone. you can look up real war stories and creat your oun out of it.  

Answer 7

Secrets

...Love affairs, friendships, lies, desires, s*x, popularity, work place... Put all those together and you've got yourself a bad *** story ;)  

Answer 8

I don't think that writing a story works that way. You can't just push it... I guess it's been done that way by professionals and everything, but, mainly, something comes up and you write about it. I never managed to write something that way. And I definitely never asked anyone what the story would about...

Answer 9

Secrets could be about a girl finding out something and no-one else believing her.

Answer 10

a strange shape could be good

Answer 11

Trapped.

I looked around, nothing but the darkness of the tunnel the same tunnel I had been walking down the past three days. They said that the tunnel would lead to freedom but I felt more trapped then ever. Since reading and writing has been eligal I have been hiding with a group of rebels. Now I was headed for a place where I could be free to read and write. (good luck)

Answer 12

Do Trapped.

The main characters name is Ivy and she abused by her parents, and tries to escape. Let your imagination do the rest.

Answer 13

Think beyond the obvious. Your teacher doesn't want to read 20 stories about someone being locked up.

A Strange Shape could be about a anorexic girl obsessed with her body image, claiming she is disproportianate. She thinks her original shape is 'strange' but then the reader thinks her ideal of size zero is 'strange'.

Trapped could be about a woman suffering domestic abuse. It is love that keeps her there and she needs to make the decision to leave him- that love perhaps doesn't conquer everything.

Secrets could be about a girl pregnant with twins, trying to conceal the fact from everyone.

Answer 14

I have an idea for a story under the title Secrets.

you could do a diary of a girl who gets told secrets from her friends and family.

She writes them all down in her diary.

You could make it comicalby adding her view on the person secret

i.e.

One of her mates tells her that they are g*y and she adds her comments in to the secret by going he doesn't want people to know he's g*y yet he wears pink tights any chance he gets. Because that's straight.

xoxo

Answer 15

you could use trapped and write about like a boat that sinks or somthing and only two people surive, the main person a girl and some random guy and how they find a way off and to shore and stuf..haha idk!!

Answer 16

Trapped: A creative short story about being locked in the closet while R. Kelly's song/story "In the closet" plays on your cd player.