Story Idea Prompts

Having trouble narrowing down your story? Here are some prompts you can choose from that might help you get started! Feel free to write, speak aloud or with your family, or think in response to these prompts.

 

Repetitive prompts for generating story ideas

Choose one of the following and start each sentence with one of these lines. Try to keep writing, speaking or thinking for 7 minutes. Try not to stop, even if this means you are just writing or saying “umm umm” for parts of it.

  1. You’d never believe me...

  2. I dream...

  3. Why...

  4. What makes me angry is...

  5. What I mean by...

  6. What if I knew...

  7. What I need to remember.../What you need to remember

  8. You...

  9. They told me...

  10. I told myself

  11. What I understand now.../If I only knew then

  12. I’ve learnt...

Ideas for framing your story

  1. How do you define family? And how has autism influenced your definition?

  2. Describe your utopia or dystopia relating to autism and inclusion

  3. What objects tell the story of parenting and/or autism?

  4. Tell the story of the most vivid exclusion or inclusion experience related to being autistic or as family of an autistic person

  5. What do you want others to know about your story of autism?

  6. Write an unsent letter to someone in your life, or an institution you have encountered that has impacted your experiences caring for or being someone who has attracted the label of autism.

  7. Write your vision for the future five years from now.

  8. Who am I/Who are we? And according to whom?

Copyright © Re•Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice
All rights reserved. Please do not share without prior permission.