: Re: What is a good way to come up with original world building ideas? I have a hard time coming up with original worlds and plots, but I need a portfolio of original work. Any thoughts on how

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Love Galastel's answer.

There's an anecdote out there about some writer or other asking an audience for five items that could not possibly be worked into a good story, with the challenge that he would write a story with those elements and sell it.

I don't recall the entire story, but 'smurfs' was one of the five elements--and the writer successfully sold the story he wrote.

The point was that almost any idea can become a sellable story.

Pick an adjective at random. Pick a noun at random. Make a story.

(DPT opens two new browsers and throws a dart at an adjective and a dart at a noun and gets:

repulsive violin. )

Ooooh. I'm seeing someone who has a violin which, when played, creates a cloud of emptiness. It repels people away. All people. This allows the violinist to move undetected through the streets of Vienna.

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