Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-17758905-20140816030431/@comment-17758905-20140816043741

Jay ten wrote: No, it didn't all "suck". I think you could go in any direction you want after that first paragraph. The way I come up with a lot of my ideas (coincidentally) is basically fantasizing (and I don't mean the kind that involve Blake Lively) before I go to sleep at night.

Don't think about ideas for stories or anything specific, just pick a character and setting to project yourself into. Then just go with it, see where it takes you before you fall asleep. You may even get lucky and continue it into your dreams. Then in the morning, if anything noteworthy came about, I write it down in my notebook.

This is also a good way to just remove the stress of the day and help you fall asleep. I have a plethora of ideas from this simple and enjoyable activity. This will help with tiny concepts such as the one you're attempting, and also full length stories.

I know you didn't ask for this kind of advice, but I'm just throwing it out there anyway. Hope it helps. Well to be honest most of my creepypastas just pop into my head and I go "Might as well write this down somewhere". It's only recently I've finally uploaded stuff onto this wiki.

Typically when I'm trying to fall asleep my mind doesn't go to horror. The horror's waking up in the morning and realizing no one's house is burning down yet :).