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[the_rck]

I'm looking for suggestions for story idea generators that might appeal to Cordelia. She says she wants to write but has no ideas. Anything I suggest is, naturally, too parentally tainted to be interesting, so I thought maybe some of those generators that slap ridiculous ideas together might help.

I don't play with them much, so I have no idea what's out there or how to find them.

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[alexseanchai]

Here's a bunch

[the_rck]

Thanks!

[telophase]

I've got a few random generators up:

Cool Bits Story Generator: http://www.magatsu.net/coolbits/

Steampunk Story Generator: http://www.magatsu.net/steampunk/

(satire) YA Dystopia Story Generator: http://www.magatsu.net/dystopia/

The Random Art Prompt Generator is geared towards visuals, but some of the prompts might work: http://www.magatsu.net/art/

The Fantasy Art Generator is slightly more storylike than the generic art generator above, but has terrible, terrible grammar because I haven't ever gotten around to fixing it: http://www.magatsu.net/fantasy-art

edit:

Seventh Sanctum has a bunch of generators. This link is to the specific Writing Generator page, but poke through his others as well:

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-writ.php

[kalloway]

I figured someone would beat me to suggesting Seventh Sanctum which still names an surprising amount of my minor characters for me.

[the_rck]

I still use a very old baby name book for character names.

[the_rck]

Thanks!

[gehayi]

I have to admit that I still love this one:

They Fight Crime!

And this, by Teresa Nielsen Hayden:

The Evil Overlord Random Plot Generator

[the_rck]

Thanks!

[retsuko]

Thanks for asking this question! It turns out these may be the kick in the butt I was needing!

[the_rck]

I hope they're helpful!