Roll Your Own Story

I recently posted something I termed a ‘roll your own story’ exercise for NaNoLJers. The response was enthusiastic and after rolling my own story, I’m quite in love as well. I plan to post many other Roll Your Own stories on NaNoLJers and I thought I’d share them here in case anyone is looking for a fun writing prompt that will turn out some interesting results :)

The idea is quite simple. Get a six-sided die and then roll it. Each story thingy (see, this is why I’m a writer, so I can use words like ‘thingy’) will have several different categories. For example, there may be a setting one, characters, a beginning line, etc. etc. and each category will have six options beneath it. As you roll your dice the number will correspond to one of the options. Voila. Once you’re done rolling you’ll have a random writing prompt that is sure to be fun and help get your creative juices flowing.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. There are a selection of ‘Thingys’ linked below this and I expect to add more on a regular basis. Enjoy :)